Hey all, So a while back Adobe removed the Using Flex documentation from their website. At least for a while, they were redirecting to a PDF (they still might, I haven't checked lately). However, the original HTML pages are long gone.
I happened to be looking at some old content on the Apache Flex development mailing list, and I discovered this thread, "[DISCUSS] Flex Doc Donation" where the Apache Flex project discussed accepting a donation of the Using Flex documentation from Adobe: https://lists.apache.org/thread/njqfyqtdttoyx2lybflfv07h9bfnp8s8 I found the vote result thread here, where the project agreed to accept the donation: https://lists.apache.org/thread/rlk4ro0gtxdrmbtxm1b77g0pzqv7kztm I also see that the content was committed into the "flexdoc" branch of the apache/flex-site repo: https://github.com/apache/flex-site/tree/flexdoc/content/doc/flex/using It was never officially published on the actual Apache Flex website, though. It would be nice to get that content back up on the web. Technically, most of the original Adobe URLs are available from the Wayback Machine on archive.org, but that's not really ideal. It's slow, and you can't find anything from there on search engines. Question: Does anyone recall if any specific tasks were still _legally_ required to prepare this content before publishing it on the Apache Flex website? Or was it mostly just cleaning up formatting and stuff like that? Either way, I'd like to get it done, just to make this resource available again. While there probably aren't a ton of devs still working on Flex projects anymore, there are definitely still some. I was just contacted by one the other day looking for a little guidance. It would be nice to have Using Flex available on the web for those few who still might benefit from it. -- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC https://bowlerhat.dev/
