I'm going to violate one of my personal rules about responding to posts when I have had a glass or two of wine (or, in this case, margharitas):
What has been sticking in my head from Andrews response are these two phrases (in quotes): > Prototype's development over the past few years has been typified by a > few months of inactivity, then a furious week of activity,* "and I doubt > that will change anytime soon*." > So don't read anything into the periods of inactivity. "*I don't have > any plans to stop working on Prototype*." What I read in to this is that Andrew has said he is not "planning" on ceasing development anytime soon BUT plans change and when something else takes his attention away, then development will cease. Now, it could be like my own forms generator... I don't write code for it every day. In fact I only upgrade it or fix a bug when I need a new feature or I find a bug (no one else has reported any). If that's the case then I understand but then I might use my form generator to crank out a few forms but I wouldnt build a business that depended on my supporting that product for the next 'x' years. I think what I and others were looking for was some form of commitment... a commitment to moving the community forward was a commitment to prototypes future and I am left with the feeling that prototypes future is uncertain. Andrew, this isn't a personal attack, I just need to speak frankly and honestly because I personally own my own sites and I write the code behind them. If I invest tons of time in a framework like prototype then I am hitching my star to yours. If you quit working on prototype then I am left with some major rewrites and those rewrites are not trivial and in one case could cost lives. I am still left not knowing which way to turn. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
