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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:20:31 -0600
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Subject: Re: State of the Project
From: jude <flexcapacitor@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:

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> On 1/23/12 3:00 AM, "Martin Heidegger" <mh@leichtgewicht.at> wrote:
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> > I think the tension here is justified. Many people waited for a long
> > time to work on things and the expectations are high.  Right now a lot
> > of requests and questions that the people have could be avoided if we
> > had some certainties:
> >
> >    * What can we work on/discuss about?
> You can work on the code in Carol's whiteboard, or do just about anything
> you want in your own whiteboard.  You can discuss just about anything.
> >
> >    * What is Apache Flex about?
> >       To me a clear mission statement that describes what the aim of the
> > flex project is, is long overdue.
> There are multiple missions.  One of which is to support improvements to
> exisiting apps and continued development of those apps and new apps.
> Another is to explore a migration strategy or compatibility-story or
> cross-compilation with the HTML/JS/CSS stack.
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Another is to get feature parity for Spark components. If we can get the
all Spark framework (like Transformers) then we can remove the requirement
of the mx framework RSLs and it's dependencies. It will solve all our
problems (like Transformers).

Judah

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