darron schall :: application developer specializing in the flash platform

Over the past few weeks, we've been silently moving the Open Source ActionScript 3.0 Libraries from Adobe Labs to Google Code. I'm happy to announce that we put the finishing touches on everything last night, and we're now open for business.

As Mike Chambers mentioned, the reason for the move is because Google Code offers a better infrastructure for the projects. We now have a mailing list, wiki, and issue tracker for each of the individual libraries. More importantly, other developers will find it easier to contribute. For example, Owen van Dijk recently added Uploading support into the Flickr API.

The projects now on Google Code are:

• corelib - General Utility classes and APIs (JSON, MD5, SHA-1, etc)
• EBay - NEW Ebay Library, the same one used for the San Dimas Apollo Project.
• FlexUnit - Flex and ActionScript 3 Unit Testing framework.
• Flickr- Flickr API
• RSS and Atom Libraries - RSS and Atom Parsing APIs
• Odeo - Odeo Podcast API
• YouTube - YouTube Video API
• Mappr - Mappr API

I'm very excited about this move. I hope it can breath new life into the libraries as more people get involved and more transparency is introduced. If you are interested in contributing to any of the projects (either writing code, doing testing, writing documentation on the wikis), sign up on the appropriate project mailing list and offer to help. Also, feel free to log any bugs or issues you may run into on the issue trackers (but search before you post, so we can avoid duplicates!).

Thanks to Mike, Mike, and Charles for helping to make this move a success!

Tags: Flex 2, ActionScript 3, Flash, Open Source, API, Flickr, JSON, EBay, Youtube