While I think that the GWT community is one of the best ones out there and I have no doubt about our ability to pick this up should it ever be dropped by Google, I have to agree with Joseph. I've already been told a few times that the future of GWT is uncertain. Again, while I know and I am confident in the ability of this community and contributors to run with it, a rough idea for things to come or a list of things that the community would like to see implemented would go a long way in the enterprise world as Joseph mentioned.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Joseph Lust <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan, > > Thanks as always for your courteous replies. I'm grateful for the efforts > the Google developers put into GWT, as any other enterprise building such a > framework would most certainly charge the Earth for it while also crippling > its functionality in exchange for customer lock-in. Google just makes great > software. > > However, I work in a large enterprise where our GWT Community of Practice > group must make a case for why any new application should use GWT. It is > important to management to know the future of GWT and a roadmap is how this > is commonly done. While I don't personally think GWT will suffer from the > recent project pogroms at Google, a roadmap and rough release schedule will > lend greater confidence to others in the stability and longevity of the > framework needed before a company is willing to build multi-million dollar > projects with it. > > If GWT retains buy-in at Google, I don't understand why such planning > would be detrimental to the GWT team. As I see it, such public planning > will only drive more companies and startups to join the GWT bandwagon. > > Sincerely, > Joseph > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/5rzWGy06oFgJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil AOL/Yahoo/Gmail/MSN IM: lawwton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
