We've been using GWT for a long time. There was some trepidation when Google moved GWT into the open source realm and the steering committee was announced. A lot of good things are happening. I see a lot of movement here and there, but some of it appears as if it is un-directed and un-coordinated. Without joining like 15 different groups, it seems impossible to get a full understanding of what is happening in GWT. As a project that is currently utilized by projects of many levels, I think the only thing that keeps GWT at the forefront of anyones mind at this time has more to do with inertia than anything else. The closest thing that I can come by, which appears to pull the disparate parts of GWT community together is gwtdaily.com blog, but there is no indication how that is run, it is not linked between any of the other gwt sites
So here's my questions: Are there any plans to create a "Voice of GWT" presence anywhere which could act as a goto location to view progress, like the old GWT blog? Besides each steering committee member advocating GWT as used in their paradigm, is there anyone who is considered the advocate for just GWT itself. IE Vaadin promotes Vaadin, ArcBees promotes GWT-P and their various GWT projects, Sencha promotes GXT, who is going out and saying, lets just use GWT? I think if there was one person who was acting as part of the GWT steering committee as that advocate that had a blog and was able to take the time to bring all the disparate threads together to present a overall view of the current development plan and future of GWT and status of the major efforts under the various tents, I think that would go a long way to assuaging many peoples fears that GWT is dying out and becoming irrelevant. Or even just a central blog where members of the committee would commit to posting regularly. The Google+ community is good, but I see as more of a discussion board and not just the platform where the community can announce things. The format of gwtdaily.com is good and I see that people can submit posts to it so that might be a good location, I believe it is run by a contributor/committee member, but it doesn't appear official and has no links from the official GWT sites. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/f8028d0e-d84b-467c-aeac-4a2bdc5f9784%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
