Hi Goktug,

That's all true, thanks for providing a counter data point. You're right,
the JsInterop design docs/etc. were all out in the open from day 1, which I
thought was pretty exiting.

I definitely can't take any credit for providing useful feedback, but I
enjoyed seeing the thoughts and process from the community.

So, apologies for the sweeping statement.

- Stephen



On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, 'Goktug Gokdogan' via GWT Contributors <
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> Singular is not a Google project and not being developed internally. It is
> Daniel's personal project and as fas as I know it is already in the open
> source.
>
> We don't have anything to share for Elemental yet. We are talking with
> other teams, thinking about alternatives etc. Also when we release, it will
> not be part of GWT-SDK so there is going be extra work to move the
> development outside; which doesn't make sense at this stage.
>
> The big things we recently developed for GWT, JsInterop and SuperDevMode
> and they were all open source from day one.
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Stephen Haberman <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > Meanwhile I will revive my own generator project.
>>
>> I'll take the opportunity to hop on a soapbox, but the "closed
>> source/eventually open source" model is a curious trend that I think I've
>> only seen in the GWT community (are their other examples?)...
>>
>> Musing, it probably stems from Google setting the example with GWT
>> itself, where historically a lot happened internally before being mirrored
>> externally, but it happens a bit for non-Google-GWT projects as well, like
>> the repackaging of GPE, which was closed during initial development
>> (although the result is great, and I really appreciate it), Singular, which
>> is still closed during initial development, now Elemental2. I dunno, I
>> find it curious.
>>
>> E.g. with Singular, it's like it's being developed like the next Apple
>> phone; we have to be secret about it, not say anything, so we can have an
>> awesome keynote where we surprise the world with how awesome it is.
>>
>> Granted, I'm sure those keynotes are very fun, but I guess I don't
>> understand, wtf, why not just open source things from day 1? IMO the best
>> case scenario, and most likely, is that you're going to attract early
>> adopters who will a) give you feedback to validate approaches/etc and b)
>> give you free work by tracking down bugs and committing patches.
>>
>> Keeping things closed source "until they're ready", IMO, stifles the
>> potential contributor/committer pool that's needed for the long term health
>> of an open source project.
>>
>> I suppose the risk is people writing a 100k LOC production app on a
>> pre-1.0 project, and then they bitch about changes...but hopefully lots of
>> disclaimers and 0.x release points would help mitigate that...
>>
>> Anyway, that is my soapbox. Or one of them, I guess. :-P Of course, we're
>> all getting this work for free, so everyone is free to do what they please,
>> and I will be very excited and thankful for both Elemental2/Singular when
>> they are available to us.
>>
>> So please don't read this as "bah, that is dumb", but just as "gentle
>> nudge towards open sourcing sooner, if that's okay, thanks!". :-)
>>
>> - Stephen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Rene Hangstrup Møller <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the update.
>>> Looking forward to seeing what you have been cooking up.
>>> Meanwhile I will revive my own generator project.
>>>
>>> /Rene
>>>
>>> Den fredag den 20. november 2015 kl. 11.05.44 UTC+1 skrev Julien Dramaix:
>>>>
>>>> It's a bit too early to answer to this question with absolute certainty
>>>> but I don't think I can guarantee the full backward compatibility with the
>>>> first version of elemental.
>>>>
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