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Andrew Wetmore Assistant VP, Marketing and Publicity, The ASF <http://aparch.org> Editor-Writer, Infra team, The ASF Editor, moosehousepress.com On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM Josh Tynjala <[email protected]> wrote: > I finally got around to publishing the Using Flex documentation donated by > Adobe here: > > https://flex.apache.org/doc/flex/using/index.html > > I fixed up a bunch of links, cleaned up the navigation a bit, and I also > wrote a new introduction to replace the original "What's New in Flex 4.6" > page. The intro now summarizes the content that Using Flex includes, and it > provides a high level summary of the end of Flash Player and the continued > maintenance of Adobe AIR by Harman. It'll be nice to have this content back > up in HTML form so that search engines can crawl it and folks still > maintaining old Flex apps can find some guidance! > > -- > Josh Tynjala > Bowler Hat LLC > https://bowlerhat.dev/ > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM Josh Tynjala <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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/ > > >
