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Re: [dsdp-mtj-dev] Re: [Eclipseme-users] Why Switch to Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java?
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Russel.
Thanks for your comments. I wanted to take a moment and thank
Motorola for pulling the MTJ project back from the brink of
destruction. I understand your concerns, but I have to say that
Motorola is doing all of the right things to be open and transparent
in the process. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join. It is
important to understand that getting companies involved in a project
like this is a pretty major undertaking. Those companies need to see
the involvement as being beneficial to themselves as well as the
community. It also has to be beneficial enough to overcome all of the
legal hurdles associated with open source from a company perspective.
All of this is non-trivial and requires time to make it happen.
I will let the other companies that have interests here speak up.
You've already mentioned Sybase... Sybase jumped in after the MTJ
reboot with some great contributions and are very active. I will also
mention RIM because they have been publicly involved as well. While
we will always look to grow the company and external committer
involvement, I personally believe the project is very healthy for a
first release and is much healthier than it was a year ago at this time.
My pitch to you... Stay involved as you have been with EclipseME.
Your input has been very valuable to EclipseME just as it can be to
MTJ. Feel free to be the "watchdog" for the project as well as
providing other input. Community involvement is the best way to
influence a project like MTJ.
Thanks,
Craig
On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Craig,
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 06:01 -0500, Setera Craig wrote:
I just posted a new blog entry listing lots of good reasons to make
the switch to MTJ from EclipseME. Please check out http://eclipseme.org/blog/2008/10/28/why-switch-to-eclipse-mobile-tools-for-java/
Personally I see no reason not to switch to MTJ, and indeed have
done so
for myself and future training courses -- MTJ 0.9 is really EclipseME
1.9 so what reason is there not to change?
Well actually I can think of one: MTJ has the potential of being seen
as a Motorola project with all the consequences that a
single-manufacturer-driven FOSS project suffers. I know that there is
Nokia presence in the development team, also IBM, but it really looks
like a Motorola project with Sybase input. Can I propose that the MTJ
team actively seek out a bit more Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG,
Blackberry, etc. representation amongst the central development team?
--
Russel.
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