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Re: [aspectj-users] A new AspectJ project lead
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You've done an amazing job, thanks for all of your work. The popularity of
Aspects seems to be growing at a very fast pace so your work will be far
from unnoticed.
From: Jim.Hugunin@xxxxxxxx
Reply-To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx, aspectj-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [aspectj-users] A new AspectJ project lead
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:40:37 PDT
I've spent the last 4+ years leading the technical development of AspectJ.
This has been a fun and wild ride. I remember my first crazy month on this
project porting the initial Lisp-based AspectJ-0.2 compiler to produce the
Java-based AspectJ-0.3 compiler. We've come a long way from that early
prototype used only by a few software-development researchers to the solid
AspectJ-1.0 and AspectJ-1.1 releases now used for serious commercial
development.
The growth of the community and the technology means that the original
research and prototype development of AspectJ is complete. As such it is
time for ongoing development and support of AspectJ to move outside of
PARC. The project's move to eclipse.org was one important step in this
transition. When we made that move I accepted the position of "interim
project lead" to maintain continuity while finishing the 1.1 release. I
knew that we would need to find new leadership outside of PARC to drive the
work of building and maintaining a platform for large scale commercial
deployment.
I've talked with many people about who should replace me as project lead
and almost everyone said the same thing, "Adrian Colyer would be my obvious
choice if only he has the time to do the job." Well, I'm thrilled to
announce that Adrian believes he has the time and has accepted the position
of AspectJ project lead with the unanimous approval of both the eclipse
technology PMC and all the committers on the AspectJ project.
I can't think of anyone I would be happier passing on this position to.
Adrian has extremely strong technical and management abilities demonstrated
in both commercial and open source projects. Perhaps more importantly, he
really gets the idea of AOP and AspectJ and can clearly articulate its
value to a broad range of people. I'm excited to see where this project
will go under Adrian's leadership.
Although I'm reducing the scope of my involvement in this project, I plan
to remain a committer who can fix critical compiler bugs, address important
architectural issues and help new contributors learn their way around the
compiler code.
Thanks and keep in touch,
Jim Hugunin
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