Is JavaFX going to truly be a community project?

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

Hi,

For JavaFX to start being, truly, a community project it is important that
it is perceived as a real community effort. Right now it's starting to look
more like it's changing hands, from being an Oracle project to being a
Gluon project.

I don't have anything against Gluon, I'd say the same if for instance,
instead of Gluon it was JPro or Karakun, or whatever...

Hosting the JavaFX docs, builds, installations, etc on a company owned site
or a company endorsed site sounds like a really bad idea. Which is what's
happening right now. If it's to be a community project it should be owned
by the community as a whole. As well as being perceived to be owned by the
community as a whole.

Being a one company project will deter the contributions of other players
in the JavaFX space. Other players that also offer consultancy services,
and JavaFX products will have a big disadvantage towards the company
hosting the JavaFX assets and downloads. At the very minimum think about
the huge advantage this company will have in publicity when compared to the
others.

A community project is a project where various players join efforts to
mutually benefit each other. As soon as this starts being a project that's
benefiting one particular company more than the others it ceases to be a
community project.

I don't think that anyone would like to join in on the efforts in this
scenario.

Thanks,



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Pedro Duque Vieira - https://www.pixelduke.com