Just.... phew.... Back to regularly scheduled programming.
E On Friday, April 20, 2012 6:28:16 PM UTC-4, Ray Cromwell wrote: > > > Over the past year, the GWT team did lose some people (Ray Ryan/Bob > Vawter), some moved to other projects, and some recently left for a startup > (Bruce/Joel/Kelly). One of our team members went for maternity leave, as a > result, we didn't have enough resources to simultaneously focus on the > external community and internal users. I feel really bad about that, but > there's nothing really we could do, especially with the loss of David to > Android as a liason with the external community. However, the good news is, > this will be changing soon and things will be improving. I can't say more, > but we are planning to announce things at or around Google I/O. > > https://plus.google.com/u/1/110412141990454266397/posts/NnSqFaQRRJx > > From time to time, I post GWT oriented things on my public G+ feed, for > those who want to track news. > > -Ray > > > On Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:11:38 PM UTC-7, Supercobra Thatbytes wrote: >> >> Obviously something is happening. >> >> One of the first thing you do as a team lead of a project that is going >> to "disappear" is to remove the developer relations people and reassign >> team members, which both have been happening in the GWT team. David >> Chandler, GWT developer relations left the team ( >> https://turbomanage.wordpress.com/) to work on Android and some GWT >> developers are now working on Dart as per GWT team lead Bruce Johnson ( >> http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2011/11/gwt-and-dart.html) >> >> <speculation> >> 1. I think the GWT team is creating a Dart equivalent to GWT then will >> retire GWT. However talking about this would scare lots of people off so >> until they have something big to show and a concrete roadmap they keep >> silent. If GWT was dropped we would hear about but and I think we are in a >> transition phase. >> >> 2. Since Dart is close to Java in many ways, they could offer Dart on App >> Engine thus providing a complete solution, UI and backend all on Dart, >> which would be really cool. That would be a replacement for Java on Android >> which would break the java-lawsuit-leach Oracle has on Google. >> </speculation> >> >> But it's too silent out there... The community needs to be more vocal >> about requesting some information and the GWT team needs to be more >> proactive engaging with us. >> >> >> >> On Monday, April 2, 2012 10:19:16 AM UTC-5, Joshua Kappon wrote: >>> >>> With the rise of the new developers.google.com, and with Google trying >>> to rally up developers using Google technologies and products, and the rise >>> of Dart and unclear future of GWT, I think it's about time that Google will >>> rethink the all "We don't and won't have a road map, and there are no >>> release dates for new GWT versions" and embrace the GWT developers >>> community. >>> >>> What do you guys think? (if you agree, +1 this) >>> >>> Best, >>> Josh >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/5xJOJhzf9OEJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
