I agree 100%. I will be sharing it internally, but I will not tweet/etc about a report that requires people to share their email with Vaadin to download a PDF.
That said, thank you Joonas for putting this together. I appreciate the work you guys do. I just disagree with how this is being delivered. On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:30:11 AM UTC-5, AJ wrote: > > Thank you for releasing these results. > > However, I find it disconcerting and somewhat ominous that Vaadin is using > this survey as a marketing tool. > It would have been preferable, in my opinion, if the report had been > released as a direct link in the notification email I received, instead of > sending me to a Vaadin marketing page with a form to request an email that > contains a link to download the report. The community is already concerned > about the future of GWT since it was released as open source. Linking it so > closely Vaadin does not quiet those concerns. > > On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 9:25:55 AM UTC-5, jchimene wrote: >> >> On 12/4/2012 4:19 AM, Joonas Lehtinen wrote: >> >> *The GWT community have been having many questions about the Future of >> GWT. Questions like: Where is GWT going? How is GWT used today? What are >> the challenges they are facing? What is the competition? Should I build my >> next project with GWT? >> >> When joining the GWT steering committee and deciding to include a full >> copy of GWT into Vaadin 7 we had the same questions. In the end we stepped >> forward and asked the GWT community. Now after 2 months of asking and >> receiving responses to the dozens of questions we had from over over 1300 >> GWT users, we compiled all of this together and are proud to present you >> with some answers in for of 30 page long report. We would like to thank >> everyone who participated: You - the very active GWT community who >> answered, GWT steering committee members and other GWT experts who helped >> create the questions and analyze the answers, Vaadin team and David Booth >> who coordinated the effort. >> >> Enough talking, download your personal copy of The Future of GWT Report >> at:* >> * >> https://vaadin.com/gwt/report-2012 >> * >> >> >> My friend, Marge Innovera, wishes you would mention her in the report. >> >> Cheers, >> jec >> > -- 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/-/i167NdfNOH8J. 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.
