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
>>
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