I've to partly apologize - looking at some videos revealed some new resources to study namely https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-components/examples/
But why are such important informations not gathered somewhere on polymer-project.org? Or am i missing something. It would be really helpful for developers to know where the important stuff happens. Thanks for listening, Joern Am Freitag, 10. November 2017 12:28:32 UTC+1 schrieb Joern Turner: > > 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/4fd4a203-7768-4901-819d-eac4846cf263%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
