Hi JB, many thanks for your enthusiasm and offer :-)
Currently the main thing is, whether there will be someone to mentor... since, as you may have guessed, I was/am not the developer and currently I am on the search for someone to take on this project. But having ACE IDE under Apache might make things easier in this respect. Premek On 16 June 2011 12:47, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Premek, > > it's really a great news !! > Thanks for this donation. > > I will be pleased to review it and mentor the integration of ACE IDE in ACE. > > Thanks again > Regards > JB > > On 06/16/2011 12:16 PM, Přemek Brada wrote: >> >> Hello Marcel and everybody, >> >> On 10 June 2011 20:23, Marcel Offermans<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> As the project currently >>>> stands, I'm quite open to donating it to ACE and re-license under ASL >>>> -- I'll discuss this with my student (who under our law is the sole >>>> holder of copyright) and then post to the list in that respect. >>> >>> That would be nice. >> >> I spoke to the student developer, and he is willing to pass the >> project on to the Apache ACE project, re-licensing under ASL. Both him >> and I would however like to make sure that his (and our university) >> contribution does not disappear by doing so, ie that he can reference >> back to his work after it is part of ACE. >> >> So I would like to ask for help with the donation and transition. My >> rough idea is that >> >> 1. we create a jira ticket for this >> 2. we clarify the origin of the code (some minor pieces were reused >> from other open source projects) >> 3. an archive with cleaned up source (author in javadocs, correct >> license header) is attached to the ticket >> 4. paperwork related to the donation and IP clearance is done (?) >> 5. someone with committer rights imports the sources to the repository >> 6. documentation is transferred to ACE wiki >> >> but obviously I am not completely sure about the process and its many >> details. Could you please clarify it for us? (Maybe outside the >> mailing list 'coz I assume it will be boring details for most other >> people.) >> >> Since the student is currently awaiting final exams, he will not >> probably be available until the start of July; so I guess the whole >> thing will be done during the summer months depending on when each of >> us is available. >> >> Premek >> >> > -- Premek Brada (Ing et MSc, PhD) Lecturer in Software enginering, Webmaster Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, CZ << brada at kiv.zcu.cz | www.kiv.zcu.cz/~brada/ | +420-377-63-2435 >>
