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Can we do more than 1 co-lead?
We can!
+1. Wayne, can you fast-track take care of this?
It is great to have you and Scott on the team. I am also taking care of WindowBuilder, and there is nobody from the original team left.
It is so much easier if some of the original designers/programmers are available.
Cheers,
Wim
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Can we do more than 1 co-lead? Scott and I have been in this project from the beginning, but I'm kind of in the same boat he is. But its a project near and dear to my heart.
Also, I can assist with the build. I've done builds, the biggest problem was getting the Orbit stuff retrieved prior to anything else in the Maven build. But once done, I did have builds for
Eclipse versions greater than 4.8.
-John
On 2021-03-02 22:51, Scott Rosenbaum wrote:
+1 On the Web Site
+1 On Closing out Bugzilla and starting over
I am not sure I can take on co-lead right now, but I think the focus at least to start has to be on fixing the build, and I believe that is right up Wim's alley.
On the Downloads Page. I know it is tempting to get rid of it, but there are a lot of applications out there that are locked in on old versions of BIRT:
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Maximo BIRT 4.3.1
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Kronos/Telestaff 4.6.0
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etc.
Until we get things stabilized and get people to upgrade to a more current version, I think we need to keep the old versions available.
May I suggest that we make both Wim and Scott co-leads? Since we're still in reboot mode, I can just make the appointment. Give me a +1 (each) and I'll make it happen.
I've also added myself a committer for the reboot so that I can help with some of the more procedural stuff. I plan to retire once the project is up to speed.
I'm concerned that the
website has a lot of stale information. I'd like to delete the site and redirect to the
PMI page. We'll keep the repository around so that we can get at the history should we decide later that something should be revived (e.g., the documentation). Give me a +1
and I'll make it happen.
We also need to make some sense of the
downloads page. Everything on that page is so old that I'm thinking that it's best that we just remove it and start over when you've got the build going.
The project is currently EPL-1.0. We need to update this to EPL-2.0. I can take a run at this. It will require updates to all source file headers, so timing is important. Maybe
after the maintenance release? In the meantime, I'll initiate a review of the IP state of the project and determine whether or not we need anything reviewed by the IP Team.
As I mentioned in my earlier email, I think that we should just close and archive all Bugzilla bugs and remove the product from Bugzilla, and point folks to the GitHub Issues. Further, I think that we should close all open pull requests. If any pull requests
are still viable and contributors are still around, they can pretty easily be reopened. Once the project is back up and building again, we can invite contributors to start opening pull requests to join in the journey forward. Give me a +1 and I'll make it
happen.
As part of this effort, we should be working to convert as many contributors into committers as we can.
Hi All,
The EMO has restarted this project. I'm a new committer with very few cycles left in the day. However, I do not want to let BIRT go to waste. This project still has some
good years in it. I jumped in because BIRT no longer installs in newer Eclipse versions.
I can program a bit, and I'm also happy to work on the build. I'm contributing to a handful of other projects, most notably Nebula and Platform
AFAICT, the top priorities are:
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The project needs a new lead. Are there any volunteers? If not, I am happy to lead or co-lead.
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We need the build back. I re-opened [1]
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Ship a maintenance release AFAP
[1]
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=570204.
Cheers,
Wim
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