RE: [aspectj-users] A new AspectJ project lead

["Gregor Kiczales" <gregor@xxxxxxxxx>]

(Sorry I didn't send mail sooner.  I was traveling, without more
than rough email access.)

First, let me add to the appreciation already expressed for what
Jim has done.  In addition to making sure that ajc and all the other
tools were high-quality products, Jim played an important role in
all other facets of the project, including the language design, how
AspectJ was presented to potential users, how users were supported,
how documentation and training materials were developed etc. I like
to stress that everyone on the AspectJ project played key roles, but
Jim played more than one, and extremely well. 

Second, let me add to what others have already said about Adrian. I
was one of the people who said "well if we could get Adrian I don't
see how we could do better".  Now we've got Adrian -- I don’t see
how we could do better!

Gregor

> -----Original Message-----
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> Jim.Hugunin@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:41 AM
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> Subject: [aspectj-users] A new AspectJ project lead
> 
> 
> 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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