Hi Cedric, first of all: thank you for your service and dedication for providing this package for all those years! I will bring this topic up at EclipseSource and we will discuss if we see a chance to sponsor an activity to keep this package alive after Oxygen. I will get back to you by Friday Sept 22nd when more of us are back from summer vacation.
Cheers, Maximilian On 11 September 2017 at 16:09, Cédric Brun <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > > *Cédric Brun* > CTO > +33 2 51 13 51 42 > @bruncedric > > <https://www.obeo.fr/> > > 7 Boulevard Ampère - Carquefou - France > *obeo.fr* <https://www.obeo.fr/> | *twitter* > <https://twitter.com/obeo_corp> | *linkedin* > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/obeo> > > _______________________________________________ > modeling-pmc mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/modeling-pmc > -- Dr. Maximilian Koegel Senior Software Architect / General Manager EclipseSource Munich Email: [email protected] Web: http://eclipsesource.com/munich Phone: +49 89 21 555 30 - 10 Hangouts: [email protected] EclipseSource Muenchen GmbH Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1 80992 München General Managers: Dr. Jonas Helming, Dr. Maximilian Koegel Registered Office: Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1, 80992 Muenchen, Commercial Register München, HRB 191789
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