Over the past year, the GWT team did lose some people (Ray Ryan/Bob Vawter), some moved to other projects, and some recently left for a startup (Bruce/Joel/Kelly). One of our team members went for maternity leave, as a result, we didn't have enough resources to simultaneously focus on the external community and internal users. I feel really bad about that, but there's nothing really we could do, especially with the loss of David to Android as a liason with the external community. However, the good news is, this will be changing soon and things will be improving. I can't say more, but we are planning to announce things at or around Google I/O.
https://plus.google.com/u/1/110412141990454266397/posts/NnSqFaQRRJx >From time to time, I post GWT oriented things on my public G+ feed, for those who want to track news. -Ray On Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:11:38 PM UTC-7, Supercobra Thatbytes wrote: > > Obviously something is happening. > > One of the first thing you do as a team lead of a project that is going to > "disappear" is to remove the developer relations people and reassign team > members, which both have been happening in the GWT team. David Chandler, > GWT developer relations left the team (https://turbomanage.wordpress.com/) > to work on Android and some GWT developers are now working on Dart as per > GWT team lead Bruce Johnson ( > http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2011/11/gwt-and-dart.html) > > <speculation> > 1. I think the GWT team is creating a Dart equivalent to GWT then will > retire GWT. However talking about this would scare lots of people off so > until they have something big to show and a concrete roadmap they keep > silent. If GWT was dropped we would hear about but and I think we are in a > transition phase. > > 2. Since Dart is close to Java in many ways, they could offer Dart on App > Engine thus providing a complete solution, UI and backend all on Dart, > which would be really cool. That would be a replacement for Java on Android > which would break the java-lawsuit-leach Oracle has on Google. > </speculation> > > But it's too silent out there... The community needs to be more vocal > about requesting some information and the GWT team needs to be more > proactive engaging with us. > > > > On Monday, April 2, 2012 10:19:16 AM UTC-5, Joshua Kappon wrote: >> >> With the rise of the new developers.google.com, and with Google trying >> to rally up developers using Google technologies and products, and the rise >> of Dart and unclear future of GWT, I think it's about time that Google will >> rethink the all "We don't and won't have a road map, and there are no >> release dates for new GWT versions" and embrace the GWT developers >> community. >> >> What do you guys think? (if you agree, +1 this) >> >> Best, >> Josh >> > -- 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/-/oMjVjCSRcF0J. 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.
