After discussing with individual committers, Steve Speicher and I, along with other OSLC community members, have proposed the creation of a new product project at the Eclipse Foundation, based on the code we have in the OSLC Tools project at SourceForge [1]. You can read the whole proposal on the Eclipse website here:
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.lyo I think there will be a lot of benefits to being an Eclipse project, especially as our project grows. It will be easier to recruit new contributors and committers with Eclipse governance. We'll benefit from Eclipse infrastructure and process. And, we'll benefit in other ways by joining a community of projects with similar goals, including Mylyn, Orion and who have a focus on system and software development tools. You'll note that the proposed project will continue to have relationships to a number of other open source projects, especially those related to Linked Data, RESTful web services and web development in general. I'd like to comment about two items in the proposal, the charter and the license. You'll notice in the proposal that the Eclipse Lyo project's charter is to develop an SDK for OSLC. As we wrote the proposal we realized that perhaps the best way to characterize the OSLC Tools codebase is an "OSLC Software Development Kit (SDK)" i.e. a set of assets that help developers adopt and implement OSLC. It's my opinion that organizing as an SDK project will help us focus on the needs of developers and help developers understand the project's value proposition. The existence of the project won't change the work we do on specifications here at the OSLC community, it will be a companion project for our work. You'll also notice that we are proposing a dual license with Eclipse Public License (EPL) and Eclipse Distribution License (EDL). This is a side-effect of joining Eclipse, but I think it's an acceptable one as the EDL is a permissive BSD open source license, like the ASL which we use now, and perfect for an SDK. I hope you'll greet this news with enthusiasm and support :-) If you want to add yourself as an interested party to the proposed project, or give feedback on the proposal, the appropriate forum is here: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/i/7/ Thanks, Dave -- David M. Johnson OSLC Core Workgroup Lead IBM Rational Software [1] http://oslc-tools.sourceforge.net
