Re: Important news regarding future YUI development

Gervase Markham wrote:
> I would certainly back a process where we stepped back and looked at
> where things are now in client side web development best practice and
> where they are going. This should be led by someone who had already
> heard of Grunt, Broccoli, Gulp, Backbone, React, Ember, Polymer,
> Angular, Mocha, Casper and Karma before reading the YUI announcement! (I
> hadn't heard of most of them - perhaps that's just me, though.)
most of those aren't relevant to bugzilla (task runner, client-side 
asset builder, build system, testing, complete frameworks, ...).

modern javascript web development generally doesn't mesh well with large 
legacy applications, and i'm concerned that taking a step back at this 
stage to evaluate a large rewrite of the UI would not result in timely 
decision.

our immediate need is to determine if we should continue the yui3 path, 
or move to a jquery based widget library.
if we decide to move to jquery, then we should be talking about widget 
libraries, not wholesale rewrites.

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