Yes, it certainly can. But one thing we're trying to do is build a
like-minded community of tools people. We did something like this
very effectively (IMO) at Velocity, making it separate and letting
them setup things like web content, build structure, packaging,
releases, etc.
What's the downside to starting to bucket functionality this way?
What bad things could happen if we made a subdirectory for tooling,
letting it be a separate build (and release cycle), and having a
subpage on the website behind a left-nav item?
geir
On Aug 23, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
It can go into a tools directory, just like we have a modules
directory.
Regards,
Alan
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote, On 8/23/2005 4:34 PM:
Tooling is one of our major initiatives to "knock the corners
off". How do you integrate an eclipse plug in directly in
Geroniomo? It's for Eclipse, isn't it?
I think it just makes sense to have a subproject on tooling, and
start producing releases independently... I agree that Eclipse
is too small by itself (as I noted in a previous email), but
general tool isn't, and the eclipse plug in is an excellent
start....
geir
On Aug 23, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
Dain Sundstrom wrote, On 8/22/2005 9:14 PM:
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.
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involved, so if anyone has any issues that need to be
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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.
I agree. I think that this is a bit premature to make this a
full fledged subproject. This should start in the sandbox with
the idea that it be integrated directly into Geronimo.
Regards,
Alan
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