Adobe Leave The CFML Advisory Committee

July 28, 2010

Adobe Leave The CFML Advisory Committee

By: Sean Corfield

By now, many of you will have read Adam Lehman's blog post that Adobe is no longer part of the CFML Advisory Committee. Adam had initially disabled comments (but now he's opened things up) on that post and folks have been asking me all morning for my take on this so, as chair of the committee, I'm going to post my thoughts – and leave comments open so the community can provide feedback.

First off, I think we always knew this would be a difficult job. CFML is actually a pretty big language that has grown in a fairly haphazard way over more than a decade, mostly without a steady hand that understands programming language design. There were a few internal Allaire / Macromedia / Adobe groups over the years before Adam Lehman joined the ColdFusion team that tried to steward development of the language but for a variety of reasons they never really got much traction. Two years ago, Adobe announced the CFML Advisory Committee and made me chair of it. It came hot on the heels of my resignation from the Open BlueDragon steering committee and it was quite a surprise (the announcement at CFUnited 2008 was actually the first time I knew of my role on the committee).

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