On 01/09/2016 16:09, Daniel Gruno wrote:
Hi folks,
As is evident, we haven't been getting a lot of traction on the JS dev
front from new people, and as such, I am going to bring up an old
subject, rehashed a bit.
Specifically, I would like to propose that we make a coffee branch of
PonyMail with a ReactDOM-like approach to handling DOM, making it
clearer and neater what goes on in the big ol' DOM tree, which is rather
messy right now (and I fear that's why people aren't trying to tackle
issues themselves).
In my opinion, this will:
- Make the UI segments cleaner, more intuitive
- Make DOM handling much easier going forward
- Make things a tad faster
- Allow us to properly use view classes and have new views inherit
defaults from the original classes.
- Allow for a higher rate of commentary as the DOM kludges disappear
To get things started, I'll be setting up the branch and testing a
complete migration, but what I naturally need is the community's
approval of making this the _default_ development process going forward.
I'd like to think of this as PonyMail Mark 2, and it's my hope that
it'll be accepted by the community. I haven't pushed any volleys of code
just yet, as I haven't started, but I'll begin by adding some DOM and
API tools first, and then work my way towards the actual interface.
I suspect the API and backend will remain the same.
This will be an experiment to start with, but hopefully one that bears
fruit :)
So, thoughts, comments, etc (even a +1!) are welcome.
+1 be, then :-)
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Francesco Chicchiriccò
Tirasa - Open Source Excellence
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Involved at The Apache Software Foundation:
member, Syncope PMC chair, Cocoon PMC, Olingo PMC,
CXF Committer, OpenJPA Committer, PonyMail PPMC
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