This is not an official Adobe statement, just my personal opinion. Adobe is not "investing" in Apache Royale. Adobe is "generously donating resources". Probably well past one million dollars so far. An investment usually has an expected payback. A charitable donation does not. Adobe is unlikely to try to build a business around Royale.
So the factors that affect Peter's assignment on Royale and my assignment on Royale have nothing to do with "if Adobe spends a bit more they will make more money". It is simply, "how much do we (Adobe) want to spend on goodwill". Those of you who personally give to charities probably have some way of evaluating which charities to give to. Adobe is in the same situation in terms of donating resources to open source projects at Apache and elsewhere. It has to make sense to them from a "what do our customers think of our company" perspective. If some major Adobe customers decided to use Royale, that would make it more important to Adobe to make sure they are successful. But we have not done that so far. Instead we spend our time rewriting how we manage classNames, nitpicking about licensing, and discussing lots of other things when I would much rather we prove that we can help a second customer migrate. And then a third customer. I believe if we had already somehow attracted that third customer and they were an important Adobe customer, Peter would not have been re-assigned. This is Apache, so you can scratch any itch you want, but when I do any work on Royale, my eyes are always on how I can keep convincing my management to keep donating, not keep investing. And my management cares little about the internals and much more about who our users are. My 2 cents, -Alex On 4/24/18, 7:59 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Carlos Rovira" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: I think things will be converging until we reach 2020 and Flash Player will be removed from Browsers. So we should expect more a more things happening in Apache Royale. Both users coming, people wanting to migrate from Flex to Royale, and Royale becoming more a more ready to solve many problems out there. I envision Royale as the replacement of technologies like Angular or React that this years have been the "middle step" to something like we are creating here. So I think Adobe should continue investing with Peter here since I truly think we can make a difference C. 2018-04-24 11:41 GMT+02:00 Olaf Krueger <[email protected]>: > Hi Peter, > > >My time on this mission is drawing to a close in a couple of weeks. I am > actively trying to find a new >position within Adobe. I hope to continue to > participate in the Royale project... > > Keep in mind that "A magic dwells in each beginning..." (Hermann Hesse, > German poem) ;-) > However, let us know if the community can do anything in order to convince > Adobe to let you continue working on Royale! > My perception is that since Royale and the "End of FlashPlayer > Announcement", we have much more attention. > And I guess there are still a lot of Flex apps out there which has to be > migrated. > So, even if Adobe has done a lot for the community, they may want to > continue their job so that their customers can migrate their Flex apps with > as little effort as possible... by using Royale! > > I'll take a look at the Foundation stuff! > > Thank you for all that work, Peter! > Olaf > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sent from: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C6b935504e8ec432c66e108d5a9f3fbf3%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636601787726789792&sdata=2ZNZcdyDt9go76qv6%2FtjuMQ0oxojJdlJW1vpqgof1yU%3D&reserved=0 > -- Carlos Rovira https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fabout.me%2Fcarlosrovira&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C6b935504e8ec432c66e108d5a9f3fbf3%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636601787726789792&sdata=3i%2B%2FtdQ%2BIFTA0xDCTZTuW6OQBhh0AbDpRA8ObSnwLEM%3D&reserved=0
