I posted my thoughts on the Eclipse proposal thread, I also encourage others to do the same! As has been mentioned by others, it is just a proposal and we can all help shape it (well those of us who are interested in CI ;p).
Cheers, Martijn On 5 May 2011 16:19, Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 May 2011, at 14:18, Kirk wrote: > >> I'm just scratching my head trying to figure out why the Eclipse Foundation >> would be considered a good landing spot for a project that is very far away >> from all of the other projects there. > > I currently work on Hudson (for Sonatype) and part of that work involves > designing a new (OSGi based) plugin manager, so in that sense there is a > connection to Eclipse - since it's possible that Hudson could end up running > on the same core runtime as Eclipse (ie. Equinox). There's also a > Hudson/Jenkins connector already in Eclipse (part of Mylyn). > >> The only thing I can come up with is that they are hoping to piggyback on >> the success of the Eclipse IDE. It all seems like a reaction to Jenkins. > > I think moving to Eclipse was always a possibility, but sometimes these ideas > take a while to grow and mature - if you look back at the dev list archives > in January it is mentioned in passing. Looking forward, I personally think > it's a good step - and now's the time to get involved if people want to help > shape the proposal. > > -- > Cheers, Stuart > >> Regards, >> Kirk >> >> On May 5, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Phil wrote: >> >>> I caught this earlier today. I hope it is viewed as a positive move, >>> not least because Oracle have in effect agreed, eventually, with those >>> who created Jenkins. Ideally this would be the beginning of a >>> reconciliation and 'join'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
