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Re: [dash-dev] Archive the Eclipse Monkey component
I'm coming very late to the party, but I would hate to see Eclipse Monkey die. I in fact just wrote an article about it, hoping to introduce it to a brand new audience - IBM midrange programmers using the IBM Rational tools. 

http://www.mcpressonline.com/websphere/wdsc/introducing-eclipse-monkey.html
I've even written a class or two that helps me make better use of Eclipse Monkey. While I don't have any great amounts of time to contribute, I'd like to try to do whatever I can to help the project continue. For me, having a JavaScript-based scripting language that I can use to make my RPG programming easier is worth the time. My wife might disagree, of course...
I need to spend some time with Groovy Monkey to see what I need to do to get up to speed. I'm not clear whether folding into the Groovy Monkey project will make the JavaScript support go away; I hope not. I'm not sure I'm ready to learn another syntax, but what the heck, I'm learning EGL - why not Groovy! 

Joe
I would be happy to migrate my groovy monkey tool into Eclipse Monkey, since the whole project appears to be moribund. There are alot more features I want to add and would love the opportunity to distribute that work to the most people possible.
I know that I was made a member back about a year ago and due to personal circumstances, I was not able to follow up and now my membership seems kinda dead.
I would love it if some ppl took a look at groovy monkey ( http://groovy-monkey.sourceforge.net/update http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Monkey ) and see if that is the way that they would like this project to go. 

Thanks,
James
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    Dash Developers,
    The Eclipse Monkey component of the Dash project has had no
    development in a year now and no significant development is longer
    than that. (see the dashboard
http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/summary.cgi?company=y&month=x&top=technology&project=technology.dash <http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/summary.cgi?company=y&month=x&top=technology&project=technology.dash>). 


    The Eclipse Monkey bugzilla has had 49 bugs in the last 16 months
    with 22 resolved. Of those, most are about the Monkey website
    itself, i.e., only ~6 fixed bugs in the last 16 months and none at
    all since last June/July. In other words, this component appears
    to be dead.

    Unless someone leaps into the fray to resurrect this project, I
    plan to archive it (move the source code and downloads to the
    archive, remove all the committers, update the web pages to point
    to the archive) on or shortly after May 15th.

    - Bjorn
    --
    [end of message]

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