Hi all, Once upon a time, there was a proposal to bring NatTable to Eclipse... :-)
It has taken some time, but we've gotten through all the IP attribution issues finally and I have the go ahead from Eclipse legal to push this forward again. In the meantime I know Nebula has been going through changes as well. Importantly, in order to move forward this needs to be pushed by the Nebula folks. Tom, would you still be the one to do this or does that fall to Wim now? Also, I wanted to update everyone on the current status and sync up on the plan for moving forward to make sure we're all on the same page: The original New Widget request for NatTable is here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=328836 The latest version of the code attached to this is NatTable 2.2.0. The current production version is 2.3.0. No additional dependencies have been added in the interim, but there is new post-2.3.0 code in trunk that introduces a new dependency on Apache Poi for table export. This is packaged as a separate extension bundle however, so if there are issues with this we can always omit it from moving over to Eclipse. The NatTable Eclipse Project Proposal is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Krpj0ceaWqP-WndbR1Ba79gwhGCbUHNspw-j9naYPQc/edit?hl=en_US The only update that may need to be made for this is the tentative project schedule, which currently indicates code contribution and migration to Eclipse is Q4 2011.. The plan for moving NatTable to Nebula was to make it a Nebula subproject rather than incorporating it into the conglomerate Nebula project and build. Tom and I favored this approach because we wanted to preserve the ability for NatTable to maintain its own independent release schedule. NatTable has 7 active committers and a history of putting out regular releases over the past four years. I'm happy to take on the additional maintenance overhead of treating NatTable as a separate project since that's what it is now anyway. Wayne needs confirmation from the Nebula project that we want to move forward with NatTable as a Nebula subproject, and then my understanding from legal is that we'd need someone from Nebula to kick off the CQ. It's been over a year since we started this journey and I'm eager to see this through. :-) Thanks, Edwin _______________________________________________ nebula-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
