Quarterly Project Report

[Kevin Rushforth]

Note that this is planned for FX 8:

http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-21415

-- Kevin


but requires some work before

Richard Bair wrote:
> That's what I was thinking as well. Have a zip, download, open in your IDE, hit run. Any more complicated than that is a #fail
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> On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
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>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> I think you're absolutely right!
>>
>> Having a Zip of the source code of JavaFX would also be a nice, I think. It
>> would be the easiest way to get a glimpse of the code. It wouldn't require
>> anyone to set up or learn the specific source control used by the javafx
>> team.
>>
>> Thanks, best regards,
>>
>>
>>     
>>> This is the first quarterly project report for OpenJFX, which according to
>>> the bylaws I'm supposed to produce every 3 months. Better late than never
>>> ;-).
>>> The OpenJFX project is moving along. We have been steadily building what I
>>> think is good interaction with the community. We've had invaluable feedback
>>> from many of you on a range of API designs and topics over the past year,
>>> for which we are truly grateful and, I think bodes well for the value of
>>> the project and the community in the future. We have open sourced all of
>>> the UI Controls and much of the Scene Graph, CSS, and related APIs. As per
>>> the recent announcement at JavaOne, we're going to be opening sourcing the
>>> rest over the course of the next few months.
>>> Our project has an open JIRA issue database and, except for security
>>> issues, nearly everything is available to the public. I think on the Issue
>>> Tracking part of the project things are going quite well. One thing that we
>>> have not done well and need to improve on is taking Issue Votes into
>>> serious consideration when planning the next release. You should feel
>>> confident that your votes, and voices, are heard. As such, I'm personally
>>> committed to making sure the TreeTableView control makes it into JavaFX 8,
>>> as this is the second-highest voted for JIRA issue.
>>> Our website, build instructions, build infrastructure, IDE support, and so
>>> forth are really bad right now. Jasper is working on a design for our
>>> website and we are making sure the wiki (
>>> https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OpenJDK/OpenJFX) is redesigned and
>>> organized and chock full of useful information. I'm working on our build
>>> infrastructure so that somebody can within minutes be up and running within
>>> their favorite IDE, whereas right now it is quite complicated to get a
>>> build setup. This is especially true when the rest of the platform is open
>>> sourced. It is usually a several day task for somebody new to the project
>>> to get a build fully setup and working, and even longer before they figure
>>> out how to be efficient at building / testing. This is clearly unacceptable
>>> because it doesn't scale and would be prohibitive for members of the
>>> community to be able to contribute.
>>> Getting contributions from the community remains a very important
>>> milestone for the project. I do not expect to see many patches until we've
>>> succeeded in setting up a build / contribution system which is easy and
>>> provides nearly immediate satisfaction. I will be working hard over the
>>> next several months to make this a reality.
>>> Richard Bair
>>>       
>> -- 
>> Pedro Duque Vieira
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