Hi Wayne
I answered the mail from Bob he send to
bpmn2-modeler-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx on Mar.21, and I did give my support
for Paul in that mailing list. I think only Bob answered this
email.
It is true, that we are weakly stuffed in the bpmn2 project. In my
own project (imixs.org) we 'only' extend the BPMN2 plugin. In the
BPMN2 project I participate mostly in the documentation, as well
as in the Forum. Sometimes, I analyze Bugs. In the past I only
supported Bob in some issues and left the commit of changes to
him. This is why you can not see much commits.
I'm not familiar with the release processes in an Eclipse plugin
project and so I can not give much support here.
I fully agree with the proposal for Paul. And once again I offer
my support for him.
On issue, I think we can improve is the general
developers/community guide.
We have written a lot of developer tutorials in the past
(
https://wiki.eclipse.org/BPMN2-Modeler/DeveloperTutorials). But
these tutorials focus on how to extend the plugin project and not
how to participate.
What is really missing, is a short guide how a developer can
- join the project,
- checkout the code,
- provide a patch
- discuss patches/releases
On the other hand we have in the Buzilla Tool
(
https://bugs.eclipse.org) currently 8 different groups for bpmn2
stuff. I think this is to much and makes it difficult to focus the
open issues. I my eyes for the BPMN2 project one issue list would
be sufficient. So maybe we can streamline the project.
Bob updated also the project home page
(
https://www.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/) some moths ago. But maybe
it is possible to update the page layout like in other projects
(
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit)?
I think we really need help to promote the project better.
Recently I added the Eclipse BPMN2 project to the wikipedia page
by myself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Business_Process_Modeling_Notation_tools
Best Regards
Ralph
On 27.04.2017 21:30, Wayne Beaton wrote: