Hi, +1 for me on moving forward as a subproject to Nebula but Wim I'd like to hear Wims and Nicolas' input.
Tom Am 21.11.11 23:05, schrieb Edwin Park: > 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 -- B e s t S o l u t i o n . a t EDV Systemhaus GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom schindl geschäftsführer/CEO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eduard-bodem-gasse 5-7/1 A-6020 innsbruck fax ++43 512 935833 http://www.BestSolution.at phone ++43 512 935834 _______________________________________________ nebula-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
