Keep in mind that the tooling contribution was originially part of the
Eclipse WTP code base and an Eclipse community had already started to
build around it. Due to the migration over to Apache, that code in the
Eclipse WTP stream is old, and new features and fixes have essentially
stopped. So there is some urgency around this that we start moving the
interested eclipse community over to Geronimo as quickly as possible and
claim that Apache is fully behind providing WTP based tooling for
Geronimo. I've gotton many requests already where people should start
downloading builds and open defects and with no where to really point
them. We are already in M5, so how long do we want to wait? I'll start
looking into the build process, but we atleast need to post downloadable
images on the Apache site even if this is decided to stay in the sandbox
for now. Is that resonable?
Sachin.
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
