porting polymer-elements to Dart

[Günter Zöchbauer]

Hi,

I'm porting polymer-elements to Dart. Currently I'm working on polymer-animation and polymer-overlay.

I just saw that you moved several elements from PolymerLabs to Polymer and renamed them 

for example from polymer-overlay to core-overlay.

In this case it seems you also stripped some functionality (no dependency on animation).

Other elements seem unchanged apart from the new name at least at first glance.

Can you please tell a a bit about the strategy behind this decision, so that I can decide where it

makes sense to focus time and energy?

Thanks!

Günter

[Eric Bidelman]

I'm not sure there's much of a strategy other than cleaning up our offerings and making it more clear what is fully baked vs. a WIP.

We're still in the process of refining what that core-* element set is. Some of the more useful polymer-* elements have been moved over and seen updates, gotten documentation, cleaned up, etc.. Others have simply been renamed (for now). Just note that the core-* set are the elements the Polymer team will invest in moving forward. Everything in PolymerLabs remains experimental until we feel it's ready for prime time.

IMHO it's too soon to port an evolving set of elements...but no one is stopping you :)

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[Scott Miles]

I'm going to go slightly out on a limb and say that all of polymer-* is deprecated in favor of core-*. So, the key set of things to port to Dart is core-*. In particular, anything in PolymerLabs/* should be back burnered.

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[Günter Zöchbauer]

Hi Eric,

thanks for the feedback.

There are several reasons I'm doing it:

- Polymer.dart is very limited without a set of elements

- It helped a lot learning what Polymer can do

-        and how it is done by people with more Polymer knowledge than I have/had

- I think it also helped the Polymer.dart team pushing Polymer.dart forward because I filed (a lot of) issues when polymer-elements used functionality not yet available in Polymer.dart.

- the community seems to like the effort (according to the feedback).

- I also ported several bugs ;-) which were found in the Dart polymer-elements and also reported to you (I myself filed a few)

- probably a few more I can't think of currently ...

I understand that the elements are evolving I don't want to complain. 

I just was a bit confused by the recent changes.

What do you think is the best way to get updates about progress/changes/...?

I subscribed most of the related GitHub repos but they repeatedly get lost because it seems they were recreated several times.

Is there a public place where you maintain issues? 

Günter

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[Günter Zöchbauer]

Hi Scott,

thanks for the info.

Günter