I'd like to share my two cents on the matter of supporting Potlatch 2, an editor built with (now) dead technology.
I don't think it's worth spending money to update P2 to Air. As others have stated, Air has been discontinued as well, and it was developed by Adobe, probably with the same amount of security flaws as Flash had, which contributed to its demise. I don't see Air as different even though it's being maintained now by Samsung. Just take a look. The web is different than when P2 released; flash is deprecated and a synonym for vulnerable systems, Air tried to take off but now it's just another dead technology. What are the benefits of porting P2 to Air? It may be easier because Air may share some code with Flash, which in turn makes it easier to port to. However, I think that the OSMF should find someone familiar with Flash and look forward to porting P2 to modern web technologies (please not Electron!), like WebAssembly or Web 2.0. Be it JavaScript, CoffeeScript or TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue.js or any other modern web tech, it doesn't matter. I think it's going to be money well spent if P2 was ported to a supported web technology and not something that died a few years ago and is on life support, and barely anyone uses it nowadays. IMO porting P2 to Air is just a waste of money and time from the developer, and we will reach the same point in the future, be it either for deprecating P2 or looking to port it to newer web technologies. OSMF should prepare for the future and not continue using deprecated technology. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
