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August 15, 2013
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Forum Help nonexistant

  • August 15, 2013
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Is there a Flex forum that isn't dead?  The one here hasn't had anwsers in months and the yahoo group related to flex is equally dead.

Thanks,

Jerry

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    PECourtejoie
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 25, 2013

    Hi, Jerry, as stated earler in the thread, Flex has been donated to the Apache foundation> looking at the project page, I notice that they advertize a mailing list. Did you try asking your questions there? http://flex.apache.org/community-mailinglists.html

    August 26, 2013

    Thanks for the reply. I’m in a couple of mail listings. The Yahoo group hasn’t had a message in a long time. The users@flex.apache.org<mailto:users@flex.apache.org> group seems pretty active. I don’t know if that is the same group or not as apache has many mailings.

    station_two
    Inspiring
    August 16, 2013

    In trying to learn something about what Flex is, I've just discovered that Flex is not even part of the Adobe family of products any more:

    Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, is a software development kit (SDK) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. Initially developed by Macromedia and then acquired by Adobe Systems, Flex was donated by Adobe to the Apache Software Foundation in 2011.

    From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex

    No wonder the Flex forum here is not that active.  Adobe probably hasn't even noticed that they neglected to nuke it. 

    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 16, 2013

    Didn't know that, but I found this in the FAQs on the Flex page in Adobe website (adobe.com):

    Members of the current Flex SDK development, QA, and product teams are full-time contributors to this open source project. Adobe continues to invest heavily in the ongoing framework and language evolution.

    station_two
    Inspiring
    August 16, 2013

    I bet Adobe hasn't even noticed that they forgot or neglected to take that statement down.

    station_two
    Inspiring
    August 16, 2013

    Jerry,

    I don't even know what "Flex" is, but I went to check your threads anyway and I have to say that they are prime examples of the kind of non-informative posts that I routinely skip in the forums to which I do contribute.

    The titles are not descriptive, and the lack of information about the OS and your machine is remarkable.  After reading all of them, I don't even know what platform you are on, Mac or Win.

    Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers: 

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0

    Thanks!

    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 15, 2013

    Are you talking about the Flex forum at this URL?

    http://forums.adobe.com/community/flex?view=discussions

    I ask because what I see is completely different from what you say:

    August 15, 2013

    Notice how many “0” replies there are?

    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 15, 2013

    Yes: 5 out of 9 in 20 hours, quite a lot different from your "The one here hasn't had anwsers in months". Or perhaps you were exagerating a bit?

    In any case, these are user to user forums. No participant has any obligation to answer any question, so if a questions receives an answer or not depends on such trivial things as:

    • that the question is clear and provides enough information
    • that the question is read by someone who knows the answer
    • that this someone has the time to answer and is willing to do so