These are all good things to have. I'm not sure that they warrant a
sub-project status. Let us start the work and see what the interest
is. On that happy day when millions of users find it awkward to work
within our top project framework, we can spawn the sub-project. :)
Regards,
Alan
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote, On 8/23/2005 6:07 AM:
I thought about this for a sec, and I realized that because I
sometimes think "general" and usual write "local", there's a
misunderstanding... Sorry.
I really mean to have a "tooling sub-project" and bring Eclipse into
it. Our requirements - the charter we'd give it - would include it
being general - that we would set it up so that other tools could
join or be created (hint hint... IDEA and NetBeans... hint hint... )
and fit as peers to the Eclipse tooling....
Does that help?
geir
On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:14 AM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
On Aug 22, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
So we now have a subproject policy.
Any thoughts on taking the IBM eclipse tooling contribution as a
subproject? It's independent, has interested people that are
annoying us with patches :) adds value to the project and grows the
community in a technically diverse way, and has a plausible roadmap.
I would suggest that if we do so, we'd move the current code from
sandbox and add Sachin Patel as a committer for the subproject.
This is a sensitive issue because of there's a person involved, so
if anyone has any issues that need to be discussed confidentially,
please feel free to post to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or mail to me
or another PMC member.
I think it is a bit premature to make this a full fledged
subproject. I personally don't use eclipse so I don't know if it
builds, or is what users want. For now, I think the sandbox is
appropriate place to incubate the code and community. We need to
be careful when creating subprojects, so we don't end up with lots
of abandoned codebases. I guessing this will happen quickly for the
eclipse plugin given how many eclipse users there are out there and
we will be better off for waiting a bit.
-dain
