I think that's a great idea Mickael. And yes, use of Gerrit has really helped 
many Eclipse projects.

Going through the dashboard for WTP [1], it's pretty clear that some of the WTP 
subprojects are near death. So maybe we only need Gerrit for the things that we 
would like new community for. So that leads to my question, does the WTP PMC 
have a strategic plan for where we want to be and which things the community 
should be focusing on?

Thanks,
Doug.

[1] http://dashboard.eclipse.org/project.html?project=webtools

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Mickael Istria [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [wtp-dev] Plans for Gerrit?

Hi all,

There is an ongoing discussion on Twitter about contributions to WebTools, and 
it seems indeed that webtools is not a very welcoming project for contributors. 
Not that contributions are not welcome, but more that contributors will 
probably find difficult to contribute and some are disappointed to see their 
contributions forgotten (example 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=247312 ).
So what are the plans to move WebTools projects to Gerrit? All projects that 
moved to Gerrit have seen a boost in their amount and diversity of 
contributors. I guess we all obviously want that for WebTools.

Moving to Gerrit is pretty simple: it's just a matter of asking webmaster and 
using a new push URL. It's not intrusive as committers can be allowed to still 
push directly to master without a review.
The more difficult part is to update the documentation, but that's far from 
being a showstopper.

So what are the plan? What are we waiting for?
--
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat<http://www.jboss.org/tools>
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