Most activity happens on slack these days. That's always been the primary support means for polymer.
On Nov 10, 2017 07:03, "Mark" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is Polymer still alive? Yeah, I'd say so. The team has been working on > Polymer 3 which seems to be what the focus is but their Github issues page > does seem to be accumulating. I have to agree with you on the fact that the > Polymer contributors are not as responsive (on this thread at least) but I > always thought it was because this is a Google Group rather than an > official mailing list or something. I see that Polymer Github repository is > the best place to file issues/bugs with the framework. But teams like W3C > and WHATWG also have mailing lists and discourse forums for questions, > proposals and discussion. Is there some sort of similar mailing list for > Polymer? > > On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 6:28:32 AM UTC-5, Joern Turner wrote: >> >> 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/ae5f1883-7d00-4fa5-979e-360a602e2061%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/ae5f1883-7d00-4fa5-979e-360a602e2061%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > 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/CADNgbTE1yjOJjSshrxUWP7AuksvaJx9jvCzajnYoYDYR8r%3DMdg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
