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Welcome to the Apache Flex community.
It is very easy to get started within the community but you need to choose how:
- Exchange your thoughts with the mailing list
- Download the sources and create your proposals
- Help with the Documentation (wiki)
- Share your problems
About the mailing-lists
There are two public mailing lists for Flex. The "flex-dev" mailing list is for topics related to development of the source code in Apache Flex SVN. To register: write a empty mail to: dev-subscribe@flex.apache.org. The "flex-user" mailing list is for questions about how to use any of the Apache Flex releases. To register: write a empty mail to: users-subscribe@flex.apache.org.
Don't feel intimidated by the many topics that are on the mailing-list. Everybody is giving his best to answer proposals and questions.
Please take your time and search the wiki for the things you want to ask about.
There are some tags that we often use to identify our mailing-list threads:
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[RT] |
Random Thought - can be anything flex related |
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[MENTOR] |
Mentoring Request, will be monitored by the project mentors |
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[PROPOSAL] |
Discussion about a new proposal for the project |
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[DISCUSS] |
A discussion that's meant to lead to a [VOTE] |
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[VOTE] |
A (P)PMC vote according to [http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html] |
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[POLL] |
Is used for none (P)PMC votes, see [VOTE] tag |
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[LAZY] |
A Lazy Consensus used to measure the acceptability of something as an alternative to voting [http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#LazyConsensus] |
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[WIKI] |
Discussion related to the Wiki |
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Discussion about a Jira entry |
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[OT] |
Off-topic for things that might be interesting to the Flex developers |
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[INFRA] |
Infrastructure question (i.e. If you need a wiki account) |
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[EXAMPLE] |
Discussion related to code in the SVN whiteboard |
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[APP-EXAMPLE] |
Discussion related to code that illustrate how to build a real world Flex application |
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Work with the source-code
Right now the adobe team is in the process of handing over the source code to apache Jira 4397 Jira 4629. The imported source code can be found at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/flex/trunk/. Feel free to download and check them out!
In the apache model only commiters can modify the source code directly. But that doesn't mean your changes are pointless. After you created some awesome addition to the Flex Framework you can use svn diff to create a diff file and attach it to a Jira request. We will review it and if we think its awesome it will be added to the trunk.
In addition to the SVN there is a github clone that you can branch for your experiments.
Apache Flex @ Github
Help with the documentation (Wiki)
It is a lot of work to document all these things on the wiki. The wiki is unfortunately not free to edit like that.
You can get permission by creating an account and write a request for permission to the mailing-list that contains your username.
The section "Random Thoughts" is a place to sum-up big discussions in the mailing list or future proposals and can be filled freely. Please treat the other sections with more care.
Share your problems
Note: Right now the old Bug entries from Adobe are being imported from the Adobe Bugbase - please check if your bug report has been posted there before. Jira 4380
We have a own bug tracking system that allows us and you to stay up-to-date with the current problems with flex. Apache Flex Jira. If you have any problem:
1. Check if someone else had that problem
2. Try to express your problem clearly
3. Try to provide example code
If your problem is more of a conceptual/theoretical nature feel free to contact the mailinglist.