| RE: [dsdp-mtj-dev] Re: [Eclipseme-users] Why Switch to Eclipse MobileTools for Java? |
Eric, Thanks for sending this statement of intent, it is good to have things stated clearly and publicly so that there can be no doubt about the FOSSness of this FOSS project. It stops anyone trying to even hint that this may not be the case. Also I would like to thank yourself and Motorola for taking the decision to ditch MTJ 0.7 and restart with MTJ 0.9 based on the Eclipse codebase. A brave decision that I think is going to work out well for all. I doubt I will be able to contribute to the MTJ code base directly, but I will always be a just behind the leading edge user and reporter of issues and problems. My real business is in consultancy and analysis in multicore/cluster/parallel systems, but we do things holistically so Java ME is part of the milieu. If you look though you will find me out and about in the build framework (SCons, Gant, Gradle) and Groovy communities, that is where I tend to do my off the clock programming. On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 13:10 -0400, Hildum Eric-XFQ473 wrote: > Russel, > > I am the program manager for MTJ within Motorola. The engineering team > that works on MTJ in Motorola reports to me. Let me assure you that > Motorola absolutely does not want this to be a "Motorola project." > Motorola is a member of the Eclipse Foundation, and is an active > contributor to open source projects in a number of areas. We take our > responsibilities as open source users and contributors very, very > seriously. If MTJ is viewed as a Motorola project, then MTJ, Motorola, > and I personally have failed. > > When we discussed restarting MTJ within Motorola over a year ago, one of > the ground rules that I set down was that we must establish a community > of contributors - starting with Craig. We have been very fortunate that > Sybase has joined; their contributions have been wonderful. We > specifically wanted to avoid the problems that caused the failure of the > MTJ project the first time. To that end, we have avoided building any > dependency on any Motorola product into MTJ, I have required that all > design discussions occur on the public mailing lists or in bugzilla, and > we have actively approached other companies about contributing. The > ground rules I set are specifically about building a community. > > I hope that now that MTJ has become official, we will start seeing more > companies and individuals join the project and build the community. > While Nokia and IBM could be valuable contributors, and I sincerely hope > that we can get them to rejoin the project as active members, smaller > firms and individuals such as yourself are also our targets. I need you > too to become an MTJ contributor. > > > Eric Hildum > Senior Product Manager, Mobile Developer Tools & SDK > Software Platforms and Delivery > Ecosystem and Market Development > Motorola > Direct: +1-408-541-6809 > Mobile: +1-510-305-0801 > > 809 11th Avenue > Sunnyvale, CA 94089 > USA -- Russel. ==================================================== Dr Russel Winder Partner Concertant LLP t: +44 20 7585 2200, +44 20 7193 9203 41 Buckmaster Road, f: +44 8700 516 084 London SW11 1EN, UK. m: +44 7770 465 077
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