On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 06:32 PM, Keil Werner 0419 EB wrote:
> Hi, hi Werner > I have developed a plug-in for the Eclipse Platform > that enables ECS to be run inside Eclipse. > > (kind of like the Xerxes or Tomcat plug-ins > that ship with Eclipse) i'm not very familiar with Eclipse so please keep my ignorance in mind... > Would you like such a plugin on the Jakarta > site, maybe > or do you have no space (or time) for it? jakarta has plenty of space but time is always precious :) of more importance is where the best home for this code is going to be. > The plugin is Open Source as its core component > (ECS) is, too and it does not (yet) do a lot beyond > exposing ECS's functionality. > > If you are not interested or unable to host it I might > have to put it on SourceForge or keep it on my own > site (kind of like Sysdeo's Tomcat Plugin) it would be possible for this kind of code to be included in a contribs section - but it would be a fair amount of work. so, i'd like you to have a think about whether it's the best home before . contribs tend to work best as a home for mature code. by contributing the code, you'd be turning over ownership (and control). the copyright for all code at jakarta is owned by the Apache Software Foundation and is distributed under the Apache License. if you see yourself actively developing the code further, then a sourceforge project might work better for you. if you end up developing a suite of eclipse plug-ins then you'll probably find it easier to build a community over there than here at jakarta and you'd have greater control over your project. - robert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
