Hello Stefan,
thats usually a question Andreas likes to answer but he's currently not
available so I take care of that. But I still forwarded the question to him so
maybe he will add some more to that later.
We have noticed that the speed of development of qooxdoo IN COMPARISON to other
frameworks such as for example Sencha, which seems currently to be the fastest
growing, is slowing down. Initially, the speed of development of qooxdoo had
the lead of the frameworks, but it does not seem to be the case anymore. If we
compare with Sencha, it has
- a designer
- a mobile version
- an animator
- animated widgets
- a GWT server based version
- cloud functionality
more
Qooxdoo is not close to anyone of those yet...:-(
You missed one of the most important things sencha has and thats its licensing
model. They want and need go get money out of it so sure they are working hard
to get it done. As you know, thats not the case with qooxdoo. So I guess its
kind of an unfair comparison in general but we still can go one.
To us it seems that development speed of qooxdoo has reached a peak as
competition gets harder.
We do have currently an internal project we are helping out so not everyone
usually working on the core is available 100%. That may be one reason that it
seems that development speed dropped a bit.
It is undoubtable that the design structure of qooxdoo is by our means far
better, but the volume of functionality has been relatively decreased.
I have to agree on that one.
What is the qooxdoo team's including 1&1, citing: "the world's largest web
host", long term goals?
Our main long term goal is, as it has always been, to be a good framework for
the applications we need to build. If none at 1&1 needs a server based GWT
version, then I'm quite sure this will not be added by the core team. But that
does not mean it is never added as everyone out there is free to build it. In
fact, there is something like that already out in the community which is called
QxWT [1].
Is qooxdoo going to support the same as mentioned above with Sencha?
The future will tell. I can't tell you more than we have on the Roadmap, which
is available on our public website.
To support that, extensive change might be necessary to the core of the
framework. Do you intend to change the model of development by increasing the
core team, employ more developers, hiring more people or invite long-time
community member contributing with core development to increase speed of
development?
At the moment, we plan with the guys we have here. If demand changes within
1&1, we sure hire some more people but that all does depend on the company
because in the end, they have to pay the developers.
We feel that qooxdoo has been overrun by some of the competitors...and we do
not like it as we have invested a lot into the framework...
You mentioned "some" but always talked about one, sencha. It's quite obvious to
the already mentioned reasons that they do have more to offer than we have but
of what other competitors do you speak? Maybe there are some other frameworks
we don't have an eye on.
Regards,
Martin
[1] http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/category/gwt/qxwt/
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