Hi JBB et al., let me answer your questions and also point you to existing docs for more details.
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:12 +0200, Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD -- Novlog wrote: > On 15 juin 2010, at 13:03, thron7 wrote: > > > This was not the point. The point was that we have a direction, and that > > things have to fit into that direction in order to be adopted. > > > What is that direction, could we know ? In terms of main technical features and infrastructure tasks, see the roadmap planning at http://qooxdoo.org/about/roadmap The plans for future qooxdoo releases are always publicly available. For instance after qooxdoo 1.0 (at the end of last year) they were setup and since then further refined to cover the entire year 2010. The tasks corresponding to the individual releases are maintained and kept up-to-date in public bugzilla. > Who give that direction ? The roadmap and release planning is done by the qooxdoo core team at 1&1, supervised by and in the responsibility of the project lead, http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/general/committers_guide It aligns the genuine development goals of the core team, primarily with the requirements of its employing company 1&1, secondly with the ideas and topics of the qooxdoo community (from users to committers). > Is it done in the spirit of open source community ? Yes (while debatably what exactly "the" spirit of an open source community is). qooxdoo is "open" in a sense that you not only, once in a while, get a piece of human-readable source code that is usable under some liberal license, but that it allows everyone to follow, at any time, the progress of the project (public code repositories or actively maintained mailing list, unlike many other "OSS" projects). Moreover this is explicitly done to allow and encourage people to become part of a qooxdoo ecosystem of users and contributors, being able to share their ideas, questions, suggestions and actual contributions with this community (including the framework team itself). There are many ways to contribute to this open source project. http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/general/faq > What is the process of decision, committee, ... ? See above. IMHO qooxdoo is much more open than similar web frameworks and allows for a much closer involvement while being company-sponsored (compare that to Yahoo's YUI, Google's GWT or others). > Answering that will answer all the other question about people involvement. Certainly not "all". The others in the lengthy thread (mostly not as important as the ones answered here) will subsequently also be addressed (if the haven't been already). Hope that helps, Andreas -- Andreas Ecker Project Lead http://qooxdoo.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
