Turn down Flutter Gallery

guidezpl commented 10 months ago

Description

The Flutter Gallery has been a useful resource and demo of numerous Flutter features for the past 4 years. However, it requires non-trivial maintenance and a significant amount of work (e.g. migration to Material 3), which together constitute more work than can be done by the team, given constraints.

Additionally, high-quality, maintained alternatives have been introduced (e.g. Material 3 sample, Wonderous). Therefore, this issue tracks the turning down of the Flutter Gallery.

Follows, an initial list (please edit) of things to do:

[x] Close or merge existing PRs
[x] Remove Google-internal translation related code (cl/597225992)
[x] Turn down Google-internal translation project
[x] Remove blocking which depend on the gallery
[x] Unpublish from Play Store
[x] Update README (#1047)
[x] Redirect https://gallery.flutter.dev to https://docs.flutter.dev/gallery (#1073)
[x] Update repo description and link
[x] Build and publish final web version at https://flutter-gallery-archive.web.app/
[x] Archive repository
[ ] #1077
[ ] flutter/website#10030
[x] flutter/samples#2139

cc @gspencergoog @kevmoo @mit-mit @RedBrogdon

Googlers

See go/turning-down-gallery

Interesting statistics before archiving

repository
- 90 contributors
- 4,487 Clones, 983 Unique cloners
- 20,137 Views, 3,144 Unique visitors
25,300 Android installs
192,000 visitors to https://gallery.flutter.dev

guidezpl commented 10 months ago

For the redirect from gallery.flutter.dev, thoughts on redirecting to this repo's README?

mit-mit commented 10 months ago

SGTM!

parlough commented 10 months ago

Wherever the redirect goes, I'd prefer to redirect it to another redirect hosted on docs.flutter.dev (https://github.com/flutter/website/blob/main/firebase.json) that way we can easily adjust it there in the future.

Perhaps docs.flutter.dev/gallery to the README for now. Then we can find a better destination in the future.

Edit: https://docs.flutter.dev/gallery now redirects to this repository's README. Please consider redirecting to that link instead :)

flutter / gallery