Thank you very much for this! On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:37 AM Balestrieri, Francesco < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > > > Thanks for your comments and concerns, we’re glad to see the interest > around seeing Crosswalk continue. Like I said in my original message, the > Open Source Technology Center Web Technology team at Intel that used to > work on Crosswalk is now focusing on other projects (including the Chromium > and Blink projects themselves). > > > > As for some specific comments made in this thread: > > > > - Issues are now enabled on the Crosswalk and Cordova Crosswalk > WebView repositories (https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk > and > https://github.com/crosswalk-project/cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview). > JIRA will soon be set to read-only. > - About the 1000+ bugs still in JIRA, as you can probably understand > it would be quite an undertaking to migrate them all to GitHub. Moreover, > some of those issues are not relevant anymore. We appreciate your help in > copying those that matter to you. Similarly, we still have some GitHub > issues that date back to when we started the project and didn’t use JIRA > that are likely very outdated. > - The existing bots doing checks on pull requests and commits, as well > as those making official releases will still be around for a while (likely > a month or two). > - Most importantly, we actively encourage the community around the > Crosswalk Project to fork and maintain it if there’s an active desire to > continue its development. We have documented the procedures to buld [1] and > rebase [2] Crosswalk, and some of us will be around on a best-effort basis > to answer questions or review patches. We will however not work on new > features, do QA or publish new releases. > > > > [1] https://crosswalk-project.org/contribute/building_crosswalk.html > > [2] > https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-website/wiki/Rebasing-our-forks > > > > > > *From: *Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> > *Date: *Friday, 10 February 2017 at 22.43 > *To: *Daniel Neveux <[email protected]>, Francesco Balestrieri < > [email protected]> > *Cc: *Michael Goffioul <[email protected]>, > "<crosswalk-dev@lists. org>" <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [Crosswalk-help] Crosswalk 23 to be our last release > > > > *Balestrieri, Francesco* > > > > *a few questions :* > > > > *- will build system still be avaliable?* > > *- can you openup issues and appoint one of community contributer / ex > developer for merging contributions?* > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:23 AM Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > @CC Balestrieri > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:22 AM Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > There is over 1000 issues that aren't relsovled or closed: > > > https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-7500?jql=status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20Accepted%2C%20Proposed%2C%20Triaged%2C%20New%2C%20%22Need%20Info%22) > > > > those need to be ported. > > > > Can you Allow issues on github since it has to be community driven now , > and so , there won't be a need to fork it. > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:05 AM Daniel Neveux <[email protected]> > wrote: > > +1 to ensure the continuity on github > > Envoyé de mon iPhone > > > Le 10 févr. 2017 à 20:18, Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> a écrit : > > It was very weird that Crosswalk just gaining adoption thanks to the rise > of Mobile First frameworks like Ionic , and Ember-Cordova , where crosswalk > was set as default webview. And it was decided to discontinue . The fact is > , not everyone updates the android webview and Useage of latest anroids are > Very low : > this is a huge blow to Mobile Web development community > > Marshmallow (6.0) > > 18.7% > > Lollipop 5.0 > > 13.1% > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 12:38 AM Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > To answer you. > > No , there is none. Crosswalk is only viable alternative for mobile. > > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:02 PM Michael Goffioul < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Is there an alternative to crosswalk for Android kitkat and below? > > > > Michael. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Balestrieri, Francesco < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > On behalf of the Crosswalk team, I’m writing to let you know that > Crosswalk 23 is our last release. > > > > When Intel started the Crosswalk Project in 2013, our goal was to bring > the full power of the web platform to mobile and desktop application > developers. Since then, the environment has evolved and Progressive Web > Apps bring the power of native apps to pure web applications. Now, the > Android platform Webview shares code and features with the Chrome browser > and is kept up-to-date, while Electron and Intel’s NW.JS support most > desktop developers. As a result, we believe Crosswalk has done its job and > we can make a bigger impact focusing on other areas of the web platform. > > > > Crosswalk 23 is our last stable release. After that we will no longer fix > specific bugs but will leave the source code and binaries available for > Crosswalk users to continue building applications. We welcome help from the > Crosswalk community and would not discourage anybody willing to maintain > the project. > > > > We value your contributions and involvement with Crosswalk. 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