Hi folks,
I have been maintaining the Eclipse Modeling package for quite a few
years now, I stepped up after Borland stopped leading this initiative
(circa 2010 if I’m not mistaken). I started by stripping it down to make
it smaller and less of a mastodon, extended it with mechanisms to easily
discover modeling technologies and then helped get new projects on board
and hunting integration issues version after version. This was also my
pretext to interact with many in the community and I liked that.
Since then the way Eclipse technologies are consumed shifted a bit and
users are now relying much more on the marketplace and are installing
technologies through this medium. In my opinion, there is still value in
providing a prebuilt package and this value comes from the constant
testing, analyzing, and nagging of projects to bring improvements across
the board and ship it as a whole. Pierre-Charles has done a tremendous
work in doing exactly this and providing high-quality builds of OD
Community Edition and as it’s 100% EPL we’ve seen more and more adopters
starting from this package instead of the Eclipse Modeling one.
Simultaneously my ability to do those effort for the Modeling package
has been reduced in the last few years to the point that I now feel like
I’m chasing the milestones. It doesn’t make a lot of sense for Obeo to
sponsor this activity anymore and I plan to step down as the maintainer
of this package.
My plan is to make sure the Oxygen maintenance releases are happening,
and assist whoever wants to take care of this package. I am not planning
to maintain the package for the Photon stream, if you feel like you’d
like to do that, just reach out to me and we’ll organize a transition.
Cheers,
Cédric
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