Hi, I think FlexJS web is a must, something that points directly to FlexJS and market all the thing (no mentions to old Flex SDK). And I think this should have its own domain and a great modern look and feel with accurate marketing reading and images.
As well we could have a section with the easy start examples Josh did in the wiki (maybe this time with runtime companions), an many other stuff. I think the right tool for this is a Wordpress website so we could make things fast, easy and good looking, I can help with that in that format, in other systems I'm not fluent. my 2ctns Carlos 2016-12-26 21:55 GMT+01:00 Josh Tynjala <[email protected]>: > 1. I think FlexJS would benefit from its own dedicated page on the main > website that describes its benefits in a more polished, bite-sized form. > Basically, more of a marketing page that keeps the architecture discussion > limited to high-level bullet points. If someone really wants to dive in to > the nitty gritty details, we have multiple pages in the wiki that go more > in-depth on the architecture. > > 2. The Flex SDK Installer is still working well, in my opinion. We've been > able to successfully tweak the install scripts when we release new SDK > updates, as necessary, and there hasn't been a need to push updates to the > installer app. For instance, Adobe recently changed AIR SDK for Mac to be a > DMG file, and the upcoming Flex 4.16 will support this different format. > Older SDKs won't work with AIR 24 and newer, though, and if we wanted to > support that, we'd need to release small updates to each of them. > > The manual install instructions should still be accurate. Users simply need > to pass the installer.xml file to Ant (and, optionally, versions for > Flash/AIR stuff) and the rest is automated. > > In both cases, the SDK will work in IDEs. Ultimately, the same install > script is run. A FlexJS project may require extra tweaks in certain IDEs > because they don't know about FlexJS and we're tricking them into thinking > this is the classic Flex SDK. > > 3. I think that Tour de Flex provides a ton of good examples for getting > started the Flex SDK. I see that it's under "About Flex" in the main > website menus. It might be good if we could add it under "Documentation" > too. Tour de Flex is good as both an overview of everything that's > available, but also as a resource for experienced Flex developers to review > during development. It might be smart to make the menu it say "Tour de Flex > Code Examples", "Tour de Flex Component Explorer", or something that's a > little more clear on what it actually is. It might even be smart to pull > out Tour de Flex into its own section on the main page as the user scrolls > down. > > On the wiki, I recently started creating some simple examples for the > FlexJS Basic components: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FlexJS+Basic+components > > This probably isn't super easy to find from the main website, though. > > There has also been talk of a Tour de FlexJS on the mailing list. Something > like that would definitely be good! Maybe as a replacement for my simple > examples above, or a more in-depth kind of thing. > > - Josh > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Mark Kessler < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'd like to start a discussion aimed at prospective new > > developers. This is sort of an in-process review. The end state > > getting feedback on our current setup just to make sure we are making > > it easy for new folks. > > > > Let's setup the ground rules of working on constructive / > > positive. Giving feedback for issues found or ideas for growth are > > great. Focus being on a new person blindly walking into Flex and > > attempting to get started from scratch. > > > > > > Here are some starting points to get things moving (can add more). > > I consider this to be sort of a 1/2/3 in terms of steps to get > > started. > > > > > > 1. Presentation to new users. IE the flex website. It looks good, > > but I've been looking at the same one over the years and I may be > > complacent with it's design. > > > > - Is it still easy enough for a new developer to walk into, see our > > highlights and figure out how to get started? > > > > > > 2. The SDK installer or manual SDK download. > > > > - Is the SDK installer still easy to download and have an SDK be ready > > for whatever IDE you choose? > > > > - Does the manual SDK setup still work by our instructions? > > > > > > 3. Easy to find examples. Like off the main website. > > > > -Do we provide simple examples (hello world, basic forms, basic > > concepts, states) for different compiled targets (swf, air, native, > > FlexJS)? > > > > -Do we have any more advanced examples (client server communication, > > advanced event handling, promises)? > > > > -Are the video's we have too old or are they still valid? > > > > -Do we need a new video's or a more detailed line of them? > > > > > > > > It is the holiday time period and everyone is busy, so I image this > > email chain to take a while. No rush and no worries. > > > > > > -Mark > > > -- Carlos Rovira Director General M: +34 607 22 60 05 http://www.codeoscopic.com http://www.avant2.es Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que nos lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. 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