Hi, Pardon me for saying this but I think Oracle is really handling this issue very badly. I think very poor communication strategy is the real issue and source of much frustration from the community.
I can see that Oracle is indeed working and assigning programming hours to bringing JavaFX to iOS and Android but there is very little communication going on about Oracle progress on this.. I think Oracle should tell us more about their work with javafx on iOS and Android. Oracle should create an article or wiki or whatever about their progress on this: 1 - That site/article/whatever should detail what's the current state, what's missing, what's the roadmap.. 2 - Oracle should tell us how can the community help with the current effort. Creating a list of tasks that could be accomplished by a community member would be very helpful! That would assure that we are not working all on the same thing and thus wasting time. Each community member could than pick up a task and say he/she is working on it and provide pointers to their project and current work so anyone can chime in and help. I think tasks that can be handled by the community should preferably be tasks that should not be too big in scope/development hours - community members usually do this on their spare time for a couple of hours. Currently the only tasks we have are: - Develop iOS port or iOS jvm - Develop Android port or Android jvm This is too big for any community member to pick up. Too big in scope and too much to wrap your mind on. 3 - Oracle should provide an estimated time/effort for each task and for each project. Also an indication of the task importance level would be very helpful. Preferably tasks with a very high importance level should be handled by javafx team members. 4 - Oracle should be the steward of this effort. I think this point is very important for the following reasons: 4.1 - Oracle has more know-how on this than any community member can possible have. So it does not make sense for community members which are less prepared to accomplish this to be the stewards of such effort. It would be like asking a sailor to command a ship and have the captain mop the floors of the deck. 4.2 - By having Oracle as the steward, businesses will be more inclined in betting on developing projects for iOS/Android/Windows phone. This is a credibility issue. 4.3 - By having Oracle as the steward community members are more inclined to help and contribute than say contributing to RoboVM. No offense intended here, I think RoboVM is a great effort and probably the best thing to happen on the javafx space since its start. My 2 cents, Thanks, regards, -- Pedro Duque Vieira
