Hi Benoît, thanks for your post and questions regarding the upcoming plans for the qooxdoo framework. Good to see others being interested as well.
As you noticed, the project is indeed in a phase of transition. I'd say nothing to be scared of, though. A while ago it was already mentioned that the development effort of the framework core members refocused on internal company projects. Internally, we have also focused to come up with a more solid project infrastructure, getting rid of legacy systems that got hard to maintain. As such we kept continuing, and actually increasing, to incorporate contributions by external qooxdoo members. And there are many experienced, often long-term qooxdoo users, whose bugfixes and enhancements went into the codebase lately. In the past the potential to get such an experienced group of external qooxdoo developers directly involved hasn't really been used, i.e. not sufficiently. Despite being welcome, it was somewhat limited to play a more significant role in the progress and future direction of the framework. That's a pity. This is going to change. While qooxdoo has been - and always will be - an open-source project, it used to be largely dependent on 1&1 as its initiator and single maintainer of the project. That's not bad pre se, as it allowed qooxdoo to become such a mature and enterprise-grade framework. But nowadays the project would benefit more from a thriving open-source community that were able to contribute and influence its progress also based on the requirements of the real-life qooxdoo projects most of you have in production. There are specific plans and actions right now to open-up the project, also in consultation with some long-term qooxdoo community members. Please allow us to come back with more details very soon, as it is currently work in progress. We want to take into account those next steps. Sorry, that it took somewhat longer than expected. Anyway, be assured it will allow all interested parties of the community to take an active role in a future recalibration of the framework. Stay tuned for more info quite soon, thanks for your support, Andreas -- Andreas Ecker Project Lead http://qooxdoo.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
