@ Gus - I wish you would go over to GitHub and chime in on this topic. I don’t pretend to understand the implications of you guys working with Steve and Co, but it seems there is some overlapping work going on.
opened 11:16AM - 11 Nov 16 UTC
It’s been 3 months + 1 day since #491 was published. Along with #493, a reasonab… le amount of discussion was generated and some very interesting points were made. We even got a new branch on the repo for a “v5” where some high level documentation was stored.
Now let me ask you this: what has really changed since then?
Where is .NETMF today compared to where it was 3 months, 6 months, 12 months ago?
Has it moved forward?
Do we have more community engagement?
Were any of the main issues that plague .NETMF solved or at least addressed?
Do we have a plan? A roadmap?
Is there a team working on any of this?
I’ll dare to say that the .NETMF project hasn’t – if we want to be totally honest about it – moved an inch.
It’s about time that we stop beating around the bush and get to the point: .NETMF is not getting anywhere and it won’t go anywhere with what is there today!! This should have become quite obvious by now...
@smaillet-ms, because you are [.NETMF project main contact](https://www.dotnetfoundation.org/net-micro-framework) let me ask you this: what else is needed for you to let community people in? What else is needed for you to relinquish total control of .NETMF?
If nothing changes (and I mean drastically and really fast) the moribund .NETMF will be completely dead. (Except on a few repos here and there were it will live forever that belong to people that really love it and will keep working on it no matter what)
Note: this will be my last take on .NETMF future and governance. I’ve made a few attempts to shake people’s minds and have them contribute and step in. If I’m the only one seeing things this way, then I’m the one who is wrong and I have to shut the f#$% up.
@ Terrence - my understanding is that the community may contribute on their free time. GHI have multiple developers working on this full time.
We have not seen anything significant in about three years and so we are moving forward.
Plans can change in the future depending on what the community and Microsoft do. But for now you know you will see a lot of improvements from us.
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@ Gus - Ok, I am looking forward to it.