Your community view is important. I encourage you to VOTE! Regards, Dave
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 14, 2017, at 1:07 PM, Justin M. Hill <jus...@prominic.net> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I am not someone with an official vote, but I wanted to express my concern > about ditching the FlexJS name. > > The largest possible market for adoption of a new "javascript" solution is > to go after those who have stuck with Flex. There are FAR too many > javascript solutions on the market right now. > > If the vote is to change the name, this will: > > -- confuse the people who have been patiently waiting for FlexJS to get to > 1.0 so they can dive in. > > -- get lost in the noise of all of the other far more well popularized > javascript frameworks like Angular, React, etc. > > -- lose the feeling, however small it may be, that those who came from the > Flex background can expect to have some of their knowledge recycled. > > > These are 3 critical aspects in terms of raising awareness and having a > potentially devoted following of one technology (Flex) star to transition > and champion to a new one (FlexJS). > > If we lose that, then we effectively have to target against ALL javascript > frameworks, most notably ones that are heavily entrenched already and > supported by giant company resources like Google and Facebook. > > > I am strongly opposed to a name change. I think this would be a huge > mistake. > > On top of that, picking a new name and gaining awareness of it is HARD. > > It should be reason enough for the Apache powers-that-be to approve a > project change to avoid being stuck with a huge legacy Flex bugbase that > Adobe donated, and instead start fresh with our 1.0 name. > > If that cannot be achieved, then at a bare minimum we should seek to keep > the name FlexJS. > > > Regarding targeting something other than Javascript -- like SWF or AIR -- I > realize the debug aspect benefits are important, but all this is going to > do is confuse people. > > I have read about HaXe a dozen times, and I never understand what it does > because apparently it does too much. A swiss army knife is a lot more > confusing to use then a fixed head screwdriver. > > Please, we have spent SO much time trying to get to 1.0 -- lets get FOCUSED > on delivering what everyone outside of the community of active participants > here has been waiting on, which is a future direction for their Flex > efforts. > > Thank you, > > Justin Hill > http://Prominic.NET | Skype: JustinProminic > > My Apache Flex community contribution is working on the open > source Moonshine-IDE.com for FlexJS.
