All,
The flexcoders list
is seeing a tremendous growth of late, thanks in no small part to the Flex 2
beta, and to the increasing number of people who are embracing Flex as an RIA
technology. We can only assume that this list will continue to grow, as
Flex 2.0 matures from beta into a final release.
I've been with this
list since it's inception - in fact, iteration::two started this mailing list to
accompany the launch of Flex 1.0. In that time, we have witnessed and
enjoyed the growth of a tremendous community. Speaking as a former
non-Adobe/Macromedia employee, it was a distinct pleasure that so many of the
Flex engineering team, and Adobe management team, were willing to devote so much
of their time and energy to reading and responding to this list, more often than
not during the pressures of shipping software for us all to earn our livings
on. And now that I work for Adobe Consulting, it's a privilege to be
positivley encouraged to continue to contribute to this list, to ensure that our
customers and partners are able to be successful with our
technology.
The community we
have built has been one of these tremendous resources, where peers and
colleagues online, are often competitors in the offline world, but still are
willing to offer their time and energy offering help and advice to ensure each
other's success with Flex. If ever a community has been seen to "pay it
forward", it has been the flexcoders community.
Of late, there have
been a number of emails and threads where basic civility and professionalism
have often been misplaced for anger, disrespect and hostility. Delay is
the best remedy for anger; and if that doesn't work, please keep it personal and
private.
As a list admin
working for iteration::two, I'd probably have banned a few folks by now, or at
least suspended their posting privileges to be moderated. However,
representing Adobe Consulting, the last thing I want is to be accused of
censoring the list. So for now, no-one is having their posting privileges
altered - unless they post Java or C++ recruitment job ads and we don't
approve them by accident :), or continue to fail to adhere to the collective
standards that the majority of the list expect of each
other.
I'm sure I speak for
the vast majority of this list, when I ask that we keep our posts civil and
professional, that we abstain from ad-hominem attacks, and that we continue to
maintain a self-regulated forum where we know that asking well-formed questions
will elicit rapid and constructive responses.
If anyone is unhappy
with this, please drop me a *private* email offlist, and we can decide whether
this is a forum that you're comfortable continuing to contribute
to.
Apologies to
everyone for having to make this post. I'm sure you appreciate and
understand.
Let's get back to
the regularly scheduled program of coding with Flex.
Respectfully,
Steven
(List
Administrator)
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