Hi again,

I have found a bug from last year discussing exactly this [1].

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=411977

Cheers,

Wim

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Wim Jongman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Cedric,
>
> You only need to file a CQ against Paperclips and then you can
> redistribute it. Nebula does not have to be officially released for you to
> re-use it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wim
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Cédric Brun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> an issue we have right now is that Nebula can't be consumed by Eclipse
>> release train projects because it does not have any official "release" with
>> the Foundation and IP blessing.
>>
>> An example is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=441554 where
>> the Sirius project had to disable one of its feature for this. Of course
>> "consumming" projects can also "fork" the components they are using but
>> besides requiring efforts from the project it also means code will diverge
>> or fix will not get to the hand of consummers.
>>
>> This is a problem which is getting more and more painful for Paperclips,
>> and at this point I see two alternatives :
>> a -The 12 components maintainer  in Nebula are willing to do a release of
>> Nebula-Release. It would be a good timing to move this project out of
>> incubation a the same time as there is the Nebula Incubator for incubating
>> projects, if you all agree we can schedule it to land about EclipseCon
>> Europe.
>> b - Paperclips moves to its own subproject just like Nattable and then do
>> its releases and manage its lifecycle on its own.
>>
>> I'm looking for feedback from you, I'm willing to help wherever I can to
>> get the "a" option done if it makes sense for the other maintainers, but
>> I'll have to fall back to the "b" option pretty quickly as I need this
>> sorted out for the Sirius 2.0 release in late October and I expect delays
>> from getting the "Restructuring Review" process.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Cédric
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