Project Proposal: JFX (original) (raw)

Patrick Wright pdoubleya at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 05:26:07 UTC 2011

Hi Richard

This is good news, thanks to Oracle, and to you and the JavaFX team for doing this.

How do you envision the transition vis-a-vis releases? Currently there are binary bits to download from javafx.com. Will those be built, from day 1, from the combination of open-source bits + binary bits? Or do you plan to keep a closed, "private" repository/branch for releasable items for the time being?

As far as planning and taking input from the community, JavaFX has several years of development behind it, basically all driven from within Sun/Oracle - how do you see planning incorporating the community? I ask this because until now, I've seen JavaFX as a sort of product being developed by Oracle, rather than a part of the standard library. As a product, it would be in the product owner's interest to have full say over what is included and what is not, based on what they believe will do well on the market. A more concrete question would be: will all project plans, planned milestones, planned features be made public in advance, and be open to discussion and feedback from the community, and will the decision-making process around project planning and features be made in the open?

Thanks, Patrick

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