[bpel-dev] Exploring the possibilities of adding a Red Hat/JBoss committ

[Brian Fitzpatrick <bfitzpat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon & Michael,

Both of you have been very active on the mailing list, so I suspect you're the majority of the sustaining members of the Eclipse BPEL Editor project at the moment. If not, I apologize for singling you out and hope that this message finds the rest of the team alive and well. :)

Over the last several months, Grid Qian from Red Hat/JBoss has submitted numerous Bugzilla reports with patches for the Eclipse BPEL Editor project. We ended up creating a fork of the BPEL code, with the eventual goal of contributing all patches back to the Eclipse project in the hope that we could simply use the version in the Eclipse repository instead of our own.

The following 19 bugs with patches have already been accepted and committed to the Eclipse repository, including:

   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290083
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290084
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290085
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290090
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290343
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290344
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290345
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290346
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290348
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290349
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290350
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290351
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290352
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292110
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290351
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292111
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292113
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292114
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292115

We've also created a few others that haven't been reviewed yet:

   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=297937
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=297935
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298670
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298498
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298387
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298375

And we probably have a number of other patches for issues discovered during testing that haven't made it into Bugzilla yet.

Ultimately I think Grid and therefore Red Hat/JBoss has demonstrated not only that we want to use the BPEL Editor (we're currently using it in our JBoss Tools distribution), but that we're willing to chip in and help out to drive it forward.

To do so however, it would be easier if we had at least one committer on the Eclipse BPEL Project - probably Grid, who understands the ins and outs of the editor - to help drive functionality and features going forward.

To that end, we would like to suggest that Grid be voted on as a committer on the project. I can't imagine that you would object to another set of hands in the code and I think we have a solid track record of contributions up to this point.

Would you guys or other members of the BPEL Editor team object to voting another committer into the mix to help out? Grid's done a great job in not only finding issues, but fixing them as we find them, and I think he'd be a great asset to your team.

Thanks in advance.
--Fitz

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Brian Fitzpatrick (aka "Fitz")
Senior Software Engineer, SOA-P
JBoss by Red Hat
Eclipse DTP PMC member, Connectivity and Enablement team lead