Hi, allow a disclaimer first: sorry if the following sounds harsh or provoking - it's mainly cause i love Web Components and Polymer and we as a company have invested into it quite a bit. That's why i'm shouting...
BUT: i seriously concerned about the current state of the community. I've asked for advice here several times and got no answer. The Googe+ group also doesn't seem to burst from activity and the enthusiasm from the Polymer 1.x days seems to have gone away completely. No more fancy videos (loved those), no more experts mixing into the discussions, no significant promotion activity in social media to make people curious or at least give them a feeling that they can trust in the future of Polymer. I'm working and maintaining Open Source projects for over 15 years now and if i've learned something than it's about the importance of community work. And believe me - i know how much hard work it is to keep it going. But If questions are left unanswered, if no significant improvements happen people will just go away. And they are right - how shall i trust in the future of a product if there's no significant public activity. Seems that the main promoters like e.g. Eric Bidelman and Rob Dodson have moved on to other areas of interest and are not even listening here any more. I still very much hope that the project will go on and evolve but if there's nobody feeling responsible for letting people know what's going on that will hardly happen. We know that Google is behind Polymer (or should i've used 'was') - and that gave me some hope in the past but nowadays i'm asking myself more and more if that's one of Google's fabulous projects that started with big buzz just to silently die some time after (see Wave, GWT and surely a whole bunch of others). I have hoped that with Web Components and Polymer there finally is a hope to escape the framework hell that over and over again dumps years of knowledge building for the next big hype coming along. IMHO it would help us all to evolve and improve things in a continous effort and moving along standards that have a longer lifetime than the 'last big thing'. I would appreciate and be thankful for everybody speaking up against my above statements. Best, Joern Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/d3c63594-25d4-4fa0-9afc-8b98557ff61c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
