Guys - I love the show. One comment though, on the SwingX and Painter stuff, it's pretty clear that you're not familiar with the issues. You might want to research them or get someone one who does understand before you talk about them in depth.
Dick, the issue with the painters is that they *did* happen. The community did go out and get them done and put into the SwingX project. The decision was then made by Sun (who controls SwingX) to yank them out. This was done after quite a while (at least a year, I believe) and quite a lot of community input and excitement about the feature. Here's Josh's announcement of the removal: http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=21745. To quote Krill Grouchnikov: "This has effectively destroyed the trust of external contributors, who never came back, even after Sun developers have retired themselves from being involved in the project." (Reference: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/11/sun_setting_dow.html) Now, of course there are always reasons. But, I think the community frustration was the lack of discussion. It was done in a very heavy- handed way. Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
