Hey Jon,
You mentioned that you might want to experiment with Knockoff support in
Mantle. Are you still planning on doing that? Apparently Knockoff is more
mature now than when I tested it in MobileFrontend, so it would be good to
give it another trial run (and a 2nd opinion).


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure, we are still keen to see the RFC resolved, we just worry that it is
> not progressing at the speed we would like. It's not a case of ignoring it
> but a case of not letting ourselves be blocked on it whilst we have
> momentum.
>
> I was merely stating that we are not afraid of continuing down the Mustache
> based templating route, if  we get to the point we need to use templates
> for skins, since it is already available, has passed security review and
> performance review and can easily be swapped out for another language if
> necessary.
>
> We are not scared of the RFC resolving to decide on using another template
> language. Having to batch convert templates from one template language to
> whatever language we standardise on can be done via a script if the
> resulting template language is not Mustache based.
>
> Both Flow and MobileFrontend are heavily using Mustache based templates so
> we would have to write such a script anyway.
>
> I just wanted to be open about this.
> On 4 Sep 2014 02:50, "Matthew Flaschen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 08/27/2014 02:59 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
> >
> >> At this point about everyone needs templating library as soon as
> >> possible and do not want to get blocked by the RFC. Please, let's all
> >> work together to complete the RFC for the benefit of everyone.
> >>
> >>    -Niklas
> >>
> >
> > I completely agree.  We can't continue just ignoring the RFC and
> > implementing temporary solutions.
> >
> > Nor should we ignore the RFC and implement a permanent solution.
> >
> > Has this RFC been scheduled for one of the weekly RFC chats yet?
> >
> > In addition to that, let me know how I can help.  The RFC is definitely
> > relevant to the Growth team as well.
> >
> > Matt Flaschen
> >
> >
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