Re: More community participation in JavaFX

2018-02-04 Thread Stephen Desofi
I looked up progress in Kotlin and Kotlin/native and you are right, they are doing most of the things I had suggested for JavaFX. Thanks, Steve Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 4, 2018, at 12:06 AM, John-Val Rose wrote: > > Well, if your interest is mainly in the

Re: More community participation in JavaFX

2018-02-04 Thread Nir Lisker
Hello, As someone who has recently made the climb and managed to build OpenJFX with OpenJDK on Win 10 I might have some relevant input. --- Building OpenJFX --- * With the recently updated instructions on the Wiki, building OpenJFX is not that hard. Having to build OpenJDK for that was a real

Re: More community participation in JavaFX

2018-02-04 Thread Michael Ennen
Great points, Nir. We share the same hopes. I just wanted to piggy-back on the wiki thing: " * The Wiki could be open sourced as well (like other Wikis). I could definitely update a page or 2 there and so would other developers as they gain knowledge. I don't know yet how permissions for that

Re: More community participation in JavaFX

2018-02-04 Thread Michael Ennen
Those are great questions, and I think with Kevin/Oracle/other OpenJFX devs help we can figure something out. My thinking is that the PR would be reviewed by basically anyone who has free time. I think that, at first, only OpenJFX committers will be able to merge PRs. They would do the final

Re: More community participation in JavaFX

2018-02-04 Thread Nir Lisker
So if a community ran GitHub is used for staging, who will approve PRs for the code and the Wiki of the GitHub repo? On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:40 AM, Michael Ennen wrote: > Great points, Nir. We share the same hopes. I just wanted to piggy-back on > the > wiki thing: > > "

Re: More community participation in JavaFX

2018-02-04 Thread Alexander Nyßen
Hi Kevin, the issue tracker is usually the first contact point for any future contributor. Making it publicly accessible would IMHO be an important first step. Be aware that before being appointed as author, one is not even allowed to reply to questions related to those issues one has created