Thanks for the link Thomas! I knew something along this line must exist. However, it appears that the GWT Steering google group is not listed on the GWT Resources page, so it is kind of hidden from view and I was unaware it existed.
I made a suggested edit and pull request to have it added to the GWT Resources page. On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 2:35:58 AM UTC-7, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 2:15:22 AM UTC+2, JonL wrote: >> >> There is no clear status of the next release or when it can be expected >> or what are the blockers on the Contributor forum here. >> > > This is not exact: > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gwt-steering/uv_WsmNkti0/discussion > (*not* saying it's plain wrong either !) > > >> GWT 2.8 milestone on GitHub is only 14%, there are only 3 closed issues >> and the last release of GWT is almost a year now and only 1 person appears >> to be working on the next release planned features if those issues are the >> plan because there is no other apparent plan that has been laid out that I >> can find accessible. >> > > The migration of issues from Google Code to GitHub earlier this summer > didn't keep the detailed "status" field, only a boolean open/close. At > Google Code, we used to keep issues opened with a FixedNotReleased status > until the next release (because, I believe, most people don't search for > closed issues). Knowing that, if you look closer, you can see that 13 open > issues assigned to Milestone 2.8 are actually "FixedNotReleased": > https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A2.8+FixedNotReleased > But yes, the issue tracker needs some love, and I proposed a process (and > have some open questions) to the Steering Committee. > > >> There is no promotion on the main GWT site of the only currently >> scheduled GWT conference and the normally already scheduled GWT.create >> conference, there is no chatter about. >> > > Conference organizers are probably the ones who should promote their > conference; GWT core contributors don't have time for that. But anyone can > promote the conferences, anywhere. > The web site is open to contributions < > http://www.gwtproject.org/makinggwtbetter.html#webpage> and it just > happens that nobody (organizers, or anyone in the community) proposed (pull > request or even just an issue) to promote the conference on the site. > -- 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 google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/8d0edec2-83b0-42c4-bc12-c806af89f7e1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
