woohoo :) great & thanks for ur work! On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> Today we finally got the last blocking legal issue resolved and are now > hunting down executives to sign the appropriate documents to submit the > source code for MXMLC to Apache. The final signature has to come from a VP > who is on vacation this week, but we are going to try to get him to sign > from where ever he is. Yes, there is still some chance of a glitch in the > approvals, but it is low probability. > > Then, of course, we have to get Apache Infra to do an SVN load of the code > with history. But Carol will probably check in code w/o history into her > whiteboard. > > There are some things related to this donation that you should be aware of: > > 1) We were unable to get clearance for any compiler tests. They were too > infested with stuff with incompatible licenses. So, those interested might > want to plan out how to verify compiler changes going forward. > > 2) CFF Font Embedding is not being donated. The source code is not under > control of the Flex team at Adobe. This means that you won’t be able to > compile > @font-face(“somefile.ttf”); embedAsCFF:true > For now, you can use the JAR files from a full Adobe Flex release. You > can also use the fontswf utility or Adobe CS products to make a SWF with a > CFF font in it and embed from there. We will try to figure out a better > solution later. We decided not to delay the compiler donation for this > issue. > > 3) We are also watching a discussion on the general@i.a.o list about > binary dependencies that will affect the MXMLC –services option. We will > eventually have the code for that when BlazeDS gets donated, but for now, > we were going to check in the jar file. We may need to write the > equivalent code for this capability as well until BlazeDS gets in. > > Once the code is loaded into SVN, Carol will try to execute the steps of > making an Apache release. I expect it will take several attempts. And we > would like someone else to also try to be a “release manager” as Carol will > be unavailable during the week leading up to 360Flex. But once we think we > have it figured out, I think we can open all of the donated source for > changes, especially for the compiler if there are folks writing tests for > it. Meanwhile I will be working on getting Mustella donated. I am trying > to find a clever way to get a minimum amount of it donated by 360Flex. No > promises though. > > So, please try to reserve some time to participate in the release process, > and if interested, in creating a compiler test suite. > > Thanks for your patience. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >