Hi Tom,Chris, I don't really have alot of time to devote to Nebula at the moment. I'm certainly supportive if Tom wants to become a project lead.
regards, -Chris From: Tom Schindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nebula Dev <[email protected]> Cc: Technology PMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11/03/2008 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [nebula-dev] Nebula Project Review Hi Chris, Chris Aniszczyk schrieb: > Hi Nebula team, the Technology PMC is reviewing projects and here is > the review for your project: > > The project isn't conforming to the incubation branding > ( http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Conforming_Incubation_Branding ). > It would be fantastic if the Nebula project could take the initiative > and fix this so it can take advantage of the Parallel IP process. > > The committers appear to come from a diverse group of companies and > individuals, this is a good thing. Yes and that's why Nebula is a bit different compared to other Eclipse-Projects (see Plan Question below). > > The mailing list isn't really active. Development doesn't seem to > reflect this as there is work going on in the source repository. The > newsgroups are pretty active which signifies the project has a good > user community. See above because every widget has only a small number of developers (often only one) this is reflected by the low traffic on the mailing-list. I also proposed some time ago to add states like Apache-Jakarta does. There's a mail from me "CTableTree" from "2008-06-17" things like this and more. > > The project plan [1] is not yet in the standard format... I couldn't > really find a plan at all. Should the plan be scoped to each Nebula > widget or should it be something higher level like "get nebula widgets > on the Galileo train" I think that every widget should have its own plan. I also would like to change the scope of Nebula to reflect reality. The current project description says: "The Nebula project is a source for custom SWT widgets and other UI components. Nebula is also an incubator for SWT. Some Nebula widgets will graduate into SWT and therefore into the main Eclipse Platform." I think this doesn't reflect reality because it's fairly unlikely that any of the widget will ever get part of SWT but adds some constraints to what Nebula-Widgets (e.g. CDC1.0 support - though its not reality) whereas I'd like to allow widget implementors to use Java 1.4/Java 5. > > The IP Log [2] appears complete, but I'm not sure. The Nebula project > should strive to use the Automated IP Log process now [3]. > > I've noticed that the Nebula project has a great website show casing > the widgets. However, the widgets available on the website are out of > date. This is most likely because Nebula doesn't have an automated > build system for the various widgets. Does the Nebula project need > help in this regard? I think it would be beneficial to the consumers > of the Nebula widgets if there was an automated build system in place. > Maybe community members like Nick Boldt can help, or the Nebula could > be the guinea pigs for the Common Build Infrastructure work [4]. Yes we need help and if someone who knows the releng system takes a look it is not really hard to get such a build running because we only have plain java builds. We even has a bug for this https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=237588. > > Currently, Chris Gross from IBM is the project lead from Nebula, how > about nominating another person from Nebula to join the project > leadership? I think Tom Schindl has done a good job in keeping up with > the Nebula newsgroup and mailing list. This can help split some of the > workload amongst project leads and not only have Chris Gross in a > position to approve things. > > One question the Nebula team can ask themselves is how to make it > easier for people to come in and bring in their widgets? I think if an > automated build is setup and the project conforms to the IP process, > it would be easier for people to come on board. Right. IMHO the following things help to get people started easier: - Don't enforce Java x - Prallel IP Tom > > [1] > http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=technology.nebula > [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula_Gallery_IPLog > [3] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=technology.nebula > [4] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Build_Workshop_3:_Build_Hard_With_A_Purpose > > Thanks for reading and let us know if you need help. > > -- > Cheers, > > ~ Chris Aniszczyk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev > _______________________________________________ nebula-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
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