Mark, Am Freitag, 10. November 2017 14:03:10 UTC+1 schrieb Mark: > > Is Polymer still alive? Yeah, I'd say so. The team has been working on > Polymer 3 which seems to be what the focus is but their Github issues page > does seem to be accumulating. I have to agree with you on the fact that the > Polymer contributors are not as responsive (on this thread at least) but I > always thought it was because this is a Google Group rather than an > official mailing list or something. I see that Polymer Github repository is > the best place to file issues/bugs with the framework. But teams like W3C > and WHATWG also have mailing lists and discourse forums for questions, > proposals and discussion. Is there some sort of similar mailing list for > Polymer? >
Yes, of course bugs should be reported on Github but that's certainly not the place to ask conceptual questions. Especially if you promote a new technology like Web Components you should be ready to help users to adapt it without assuming that everybody is following the whole history or even works every day with that software. I have to confess that i've stumbled across the best practices just recently and that's really a good resource. A mailing list or lets say a group like this is IMO still the best resource ask more conceptual questions or to provide feedback that goes beyond the most simplest statements.. Even the best documentation doesn't answer all questions. > On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 6:28:32 AM UTC-5, Joern Turner wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> allow a disclaimer first: >> sorry if the following sounds harsh or provoking - it's mainly cause i >> love Web Components and Polymer and we as a company have invested into it >> quite a bit. That's why i'm shouting... >> >> BUT: i seriously concerned about the current state of the community. I've >> asked for advice here several times and got no answer. The Googe+ group >> also doesn't seem to burst from activity and the enthusiasm from the >> Polymer 1.x days seems to have gone away completely. No more fancy videos >> (loved those), no more experts mixing into the discussions, no significant >> promotion activity in social media to make people curious or at least give >> them a feeling that they can trust in the future of Polymer. >> >> I'm working and maintaining Open Source projects for over 15 years now >> and if i've learned something than it's about the importance of community >> work. And believe me - i know how much hard work it is to keep it going. >> But If questions are left unanswered, if no significant improvements happen >> people will just go away. And they are right - how shall i trust in the >> future of a product if there's no significant public activity. Seems that >> the main promoters like e.g. Eric Bidelman and Rob Dodson have moved on to >> other areas of interest and are not even listening here any more. >> >> I still very much hope that the project will go on and evolve but if >> there's nobody feeling responsible for letting people know what's going on >> that will hardly happen. >> >> We know that Google is behind Polymer (or should i've used 'was') - and >> that gave me some hope in the past but nowadays i'm asking myself more and >> more if that's one of Google's fabulous projects that started with big buzz >> just to silently die some time after (see Wave, GWT and surely a whole >> bunch of others). >> >> I have hoped that with Web Components and Polymer there finally is a hope >> to escape the framework hell that over and over again dumps years of >> knowledge building for the next big hype coming along. IMHO it would help >> us all to evolve and improve things in a continous effort and moving along >> standards that have a longer lifetime than the 'last big thing'. >> >> I would appreciate and be thankful for everybody speaking up against my >> above statements. >> >> Best, >> >> Joern >> >> Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to polymer-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/eb756208-b606-4e73-a73a-8b2a6a72cd0c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
