+1 I think Riena on RAP and Riena on e4 good goals to pursue.
Elias. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Christian Campo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rienaers, (Riena committers, contributors, users, interested parties) > > "dont surprise your community" is one of the key points when dealing with > others in an open source environment. So I have explain a little for a > change in our plans and I hope I dont surprise anyone here. > > When we create Riena 2.0 for the Helios release we published that our next > release would be 2.1. in december this year. That pretty much followed what > we did the year before where we have a minor release after 6 month. > > Now several month in the time "after Helios", when we looked for ways to go > we had some interesting discussions among us committers (mostly face 2 face > or telco's). > > We'd like to make a major step in making Riena work really way better under > RAP. A second goal is to investigate and prototyp making Riena run on e4, > not only on the compatibility layer but also using the new workbench model > and all the other new stuff that is part of it. > > However we cannot do all at the same time. > > In any event, having a midterm release in december seems to stop us from > making a big step forward. So we decided that our next release is Riena 3.0 > which will come with Indigo in June 2011. We will publish milestones along > the line with Indigo (Eclipse 3.7). > > A new major version is not only necessary because it is a big step forward > but it also need some flexibilty (nice wording :-) ) for breaking API. We > will do that we the same kind of documentation and caution that we used for > Riena 2.0. But certain things will need to change. > > Our main focus will be to improve the RAP support. And that will also mean > that we have to make a number of changes in our code. Elias was kind enough > to start a wiki page http://wiki.eclipse.org/Riena_on_RAP with some issues > that we need to address. > > The second task (with less prio) is to investigate what it means to also run > on the native new API of e4 and build prototypes for that. We have already > started and will keep on going there and start to create bundles for that. > > Any feedback, comments, contribution, help or anything is welcomed at this > point in time. > > If you have an opinion about the direction we are taking let us know...... > > christian > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > compeople AG > Untermainanlage 8 > 60329 Frankfurt/Main > fon: +49 (0) 69 / 27 22 18 0 > fax: +49 (0) 69 / 27 22 18 22 > web: http://www.compeople.de/ > > Vorstand: Jürgen Wiesmaier > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Christian Glanz > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt/Main > Handelsregister Frankfurt HRB 56759 > Ust-Ident.-Nr: DE207665352 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > riena-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/riena-dev > -- Elias Volanakis | Technical Lead | http://eclipsesource.com [email protected] | +1 503 929 5537 | @evolanakis _______________________________________________ rap-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/rap-dev
