Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by jedixit » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 1:03 AM UTC

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by zamadatix » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 3:07 AM UTC

As someone who has only ever created some basic quick apps in Electron and NW.js why is it Electron sees a much slower release cadence? Is there a different scope of integration with the underlying components?

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by shagie » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 3:09 AM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #2

As someone who has only ever created some basic quick apps in Electron and NW.js why is it Electron sees a much slower release cadence? Is there a different scope of integration with the underlying components?

From the article:

> In the last half of 2018, our top priority was releasing faster and catching up closer to Chromium. We succeeded by sticking to a predetermined timeline. Electron 3.0.0 and 4.0.0 were released in a 2-3 month timeline for each release. We are optimistic about continuing that pace in releasing 5.0.0 and beyond. With a major Electron release approximately every quarter, we're now keeping pace with Chromium's release cadence. Getting ahead of Chromium stable release is always a goal for us and we are taking steps towards that.

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Post by yodon » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 3:41 AM UTC

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by ravedave5 » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 3:45 AM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #2

As someone who has only ever created some basic quick apps in Electron and NW.js why is it Electron sees a much slower release cadence? Is there a different scope of integration with the underlying components?

Chromium changes a lot. One of my teams tried integrating it directly and couldn't keep up with the API change. We went with a 3rd party library that wraps it to shield us from it.

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by mishurov » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 3:46 AM UTC

This cancerous project should be shut down and developers using it should be laid off.

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Post by no_wizard » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 3:56 AM UTC

yodon wrote: post #4

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

To be fair, Microsoft now pays the bills for the entire company, since electron is Githubs project as I have come to understand it

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Post by briandear » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 4:06 AM UTC

yodon wrote: post #4

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

I’d rather Slack just stop using electron and write a real native app; they can certainly afford it. Meanwhile, Slack remains an incredible resource hog.

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Post by choward » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 4:22 AM UTC

yodon wrote: post #4

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

I would say VS Code is pretty good contribution. Since it's open source it can also be seen as a large code example.

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by legostormtroopr » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 4:27 AM UTC

yodon wrote: post #4

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

Donations are a voluntary contribution based on "feeling good", and companies especially big publicly funded companies can rarely donate to "feel good". Its hard to justify to financiers why you should pay for open-source updates, if you can get them for free anyway.

It just highlights why donation is a terrible business model for open-source.

Come up with a better support model and people will pay.