Re: What is happening to GWT???

On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 5:36:58 PM UTC+2, Gilberto wrote:

Guys, threads asking if GWT is dead/dying shouldn't appear as often as it does. Actually they shouldn't appear at all. But they do. Something is definitely wrong. As community we should do something.

Glad you're using "we" here! ;-)

 

In my opinion the communication is pretty poor and should be improved. GWT is "too blackbox" in my opinion, because of the reasons I stated before.

But if the communication is fine, it's just a matter of the interest of the developer in viewing commit logs, so what's the problem then? Don't tell me everything is fine - a forum with threads asking if the framework is dead isn't a sign that everything is fine.

I'm not saying everything's fine; I'm asking for the community to:

 * have "responsible behavior" when those threads happen, and rather answer with "yeah, we know communication is rather bad, but GWT is not dead" than with "GWT is not really open source, Google is leading and doing what they want to do without care for the community" etc. many more "arguments" implying you'd rather think about switching to something else. If you don't have information, ask, reply with "I too wonder, anyone knows better?", don't spread FUD.

 * help fixing those communication issues by investing the time it takes to be the "link" between the developers who don't have enough time to communicate broadly and the rest of the community who ask for more information/communication.

I've just spent a day working on finally unbundling third-party dependencies from gwt-dev and gwt-user (testing this is such a time sink) and a few hours reading and answering here, on stack overflow and on the issue tracker. And I do that primarily on my free time; I'm not paid for working on GWT (though my employer is OK with me spending a little work time on it, which I just did yesterday).

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