List of decisions by topic

• Discussions:  
  • The Apache Flex Contributors believe in a mantra to help ensure we as a community have a consensus about changes and additions to the Framework: "If it didn't happen on the list, it didn't happen." Subscribing to a to the Apache Flex Mailing List (http://incubator.apache.org/flex/mailing-lists.html) will allow you to follow and contribute to the discussions.
  • Sending messages do Mailing List: Follow the Subject Tagging rules at Getting Started
• Code Refactoring: org.apache.flex 

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• Infrastructure
  • Version Control: Subversion (mirror on GitHub)
  • Task System: JIRA
• Initial concerns
  • First commits: First Commits occur through a "patches" branch
  • Thoughts and Ideas: Commiters are granted access to a whiteboard where they can share thoughts and code for discussion through a Whiteboard.
  • First issues on JIRA: Please avoid adding duplicate tickets to JIRA. We are currently waiting for Adobe to commit their existing JIRA tickets.
• Tools
  • Testing Tools: Apache Flex supports testing with FlexUnit and Mockolate.
  • Building System: Apache Ant
• Versioning (thanks to Omar Gonzalez) 

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  • 4.6.x - Reserved for Adobe to patch bugs and implement security fixes. 

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  • 4.7.x - Reserved for Adobe 

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  • 4.8.0 - First Apache Flex version. This version should be pretty much identical to what Adobe donated with 4.6.0.
  • 4.9.x - Versions to apply bug fixes and improvements that do not introduce API breakages, do not add significant new features, components, or Spark architecture changes.
  • 5.0.x - First Apache Flex big release. First big changes will start arriving for this version.

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