No worries :)

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Stephen Haberman <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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