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Re: [atf-dev] Open Mettings and getting the Source Code


Bjorn

I would of responded to you sooner, but have been on vacation.

I will work on improving the communication to the open source community. The ATF team is starting to look at where we should be heading in the future. The team has gotten to the point where we need to assess what we have done in ATF and what functionality should be in ATF for a product. As we go forward we will be announcing our thoughts to the community to get feedback and layout our plans. There are a number of things that the ATF has done that we don't think should be in a product. The team has announce two of this items to the ATF Dev forum (Dropping of the Personality and Zimbra support) to get community feedback. We are probably one or two months away from laying out our plans.

I will update the Web site with our latest plans for our next milestone and announce the plans to the ATF Dev forum  I will also work on your specific bullets below. I  will also continue to work WTP PMC on the best course of actions to improve communication to the open source community.

   Thanks
     Bob


Robert Goodman
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ATF Developers, Webtools PMC,
I was disappointed to read this statement (below) in the atf-dev mailing list. A project is not open and transparent unless it is open and transparent all the time. My experience is that people (and groups of people; even me) always revert to base behavior under stress. In other words, if you can't stay open and transparent during a "heads down" cycle, then you aren't really committed to being open and transparent.

Related to that, I browsed around your mailing list archives, newsgroup archives, and project website:
  • Your 2.1 downloads do not have the word "incubation" in them. Your project is no longer "incubation-conforming".
  • You are not using the standard Eclipse version numbering as 0.2.1 is not (in Eclipse naming) a milestone of 0.2. It should be something more like 0.2.1M4.
  • I couldn't find a project plan. I found this roadmap but it's out of date. Plus it has no dates.
  • Are you all doing Eclipse-standard six week milestones aiming for a 1.0 release? You should be, but I don't see any documentation of it anywhere.
  • I see that code is being written, but I don't see much/any discussion of design, architecture, use cases, unit tests, or development in the dev mailing list.
  • I looked at the ATF wiki. All but one of the pages haven't been touched for more than nine months.
  • Etc.
The project is just not being very open and transparent. The WTP PMC needs to crack down on the ATF project and either get them to be an open and transparent and Eclipse-like project or to reboot the project with a different team that will be. This could be a really cool project for Eclipse and the Eclipse community. But not as a closed-shop project with an open source repository. It's not good for Eclipse and it's not good for Webtools and it's not good for the ATF project itself.
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Victor


We do generally have an open meeting. At this time the team is heads down trying to get something out the door real soon and before I go on vacation. We are just having impromptu meetings until we get over the hump. I will send you a note, once we get the meetings started again. We are obviously interested in people who would like to contribute to the project.

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   Bob

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Robert,

  We are interested in the ATF Project and we would like to know if
the the project has Open Mettings. How we can participate from this
meetings?

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