I think the github organization is a great start. On Oct 7, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Martin Eisengardt <martin.eisenga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK. Thanks four your responses, Mark and Jason. > Lets sum up. We have the agreement of the authors to build up a new > "working group". > I recently created a new organization at github: > https://github.com/maven-nar (just to give this a kickstart) > Please tell me who wants to become a project owner. I have added the three > active fork users (richardkerr, grogdomjahn and 1spatial). I suggest to now > vote on one fork to be moved to the organization and merging all the pull > requests, solving issues etc. > Unperiodical users can always create pull requests on the project. New > regular users are welcome :) > > Technical features can be discussed in the github wiki at the moment. > > I will create website and other things too, the website and repository can > be hosted by github. After doing this homework with merging all the forks > we can discuss the future of this project. > As long as there is no organization selected I will use my jenkins to push > the website to a github repository. > > > >> That said if you were going to take it to a foundation, in the long run I >> would take it to the Eclipse Foundation. They have just converted the whole >> platform build to Maven and there is a large native component to that for >> SWT and the launchers. Redhat has done a lot of the work there lately and >> I'm sure they would be interested as they do their own builds of the >> Eclipse Platform for their users and customers. >> >> I happy to talk any of the groups as Sonatype would have to make a >> donation of code to move it to a foundation, but honestly I really think >> Github is the best place for you to spark up the project again. >> > > > I do not preferr any of the codehaus, mavens core or eclipse foundation. > All three solutions are fine for me as well as having a lonesome project > group using github and publishing to maven central. > > For eclipse: This should be discussed with an eclipse foundation guru and > with an eclipse cdt guru. As soon as we are ready with the project team and > voted for an active project lead I would be happy to contact them. I am > already involved in eclipse pdt (commiting patches) and already had some > contact to some of the gurus. Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder & CTO, Sonatype Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann
