Does Java 8 delay mean less app developer feedback?

[Danno Ferrin]

This wasn't meant as mockery, but as a serious idea that may not meet
engineering reality, hence the crazytalk tags, as in my idea may be too
crazy to do.




On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Randahl Fink Isaksen <randahl at rockit.dk>wrote:

> Danno, I take offence to that. Your comments does in no way represent what
> I am asking. If you looked into Jira you would see that a lot of issues do
> in no way require Java 8 or JavaFX 8, but still they are scheduled to be
> released along with FX8. What I am asking is for some of the minor issues
> to be rescheduled because of Oracle's recently announced delay.
>
> One example is the Jira issue that requests source code to be provided
> along with JavaFX. This is a requirement for NetBeans code completion to
> work. It is now scheduled for FX8. Is Java 8 or FX 8 a requirement before
> this issue can be solved? No. Would it be nice not having to wait a full
> year to have the source code distributed along with JavaFX? Yes.
>
> If you are here to mock a serious request, I wonder if the community
> thinks you are welcome.
>
> Randahl
>
>
> On May 2, 2013, at 17:25 , Danno Ferrin <danno.ferrin at shemnon.com> wrote:
>
> <crazyTalk>
> Once OpenJFX is fully opensourced, could the v8 targeted branch be
> compiled to run on JDK 7?
> Or key stoppers fixed in a separate community maintained branch?
> Perhaps v8.1 should be the one to go lambda crazy?
> </crazytalk>
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Randahl Fink Isaksen <randahl at rockit.dk>wrote:
>
>> Oracle has delayed Java 8 until Q1 of 2014, which means FX 8 is delayed
>> likewise, I suppose.
>>
>> Now, I have identified and filed quite a lot of JavaFX issues, but more
>> and more of them are being targeted for FX8. I would like to provide
>> feedback as the issues are resolved, but I can no longer do that since –
>> like everyone else – I am developing an app using the current JavaFX
>> release. I cannot help but wonder how many other app developers are now
>> providing less feedback, and I fear that this will have a considerable
>> negative impact on the quality of JavaFX. If no feedback is provided on
>> many of the resolved issues until they are finally released all at once in
>> Q1 2014, there is guaranteed to be QA problems – big bang is rarely a
>> viable development strategy.
>>
>> I would like to ask if this has been discussed, and if the JavaFX
>> development team has considered moving issues from FX8 back to the ordinary
>> incremental 2.2.x releases to strengthen the collaboration between app
>> developers and API developers.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Randahl
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