Hi Boris,
thanks for bringing this up! Involving the AC is a great
idea. And even if many of us won't have sufficient background to make an
educated suggestion, it would be helpful as a first step if the AC got a list of
specification organizations that Eclipse is involved in, and suggestions that
are being voted on.
I do think that bringing this information to the AC may add
considerable value for some AC members, thus increasing the value of membership,
and thus increasing the value of strategic eclipse
membership.
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project
Lead, DSDP PMC Member
Boris,
I
got a similar note from Bob Lee J
After
much discussion at the Board about getting
involved in Specification Organizations the agreed policy is that we (the
EMO) will vote in the manner we (the EMO) think best helps Eclipse.
It
would be great to hear the opinion of others on how we should vote. Having the
advice of the Architecture Council would be very helpful data point, I am
sure. But in the end Wayne and I are going to make the final
decision.
From: Boris
Bokowski [mailto:Boris_Bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: May-27-09 12:56
PM To: mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx;
eclipse.org-architecture-council@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject:
JSRs
Mike, Architecture Council,
The Eclipse Foundation is a member of
the JCP SE/EE Executive Committee, which "is responsible for approving the
passage of specifications through key points of the JCP" (http://jcp.org/en/participation/committee).
Mike,
you are the Eclipse Foundation's representative on that committee. On what
basis do you make voting decisions? Would it make sense to involve the AC on
this in some way?
The concrete background of this is that I have been
asked by Bob Lee, one of the proposed spec leads for JSR-330 "Dependency
Injection for Java", that the Eclipse Foundation vote "yes" on this JSR which
is up for "JSR review", i.e. whether it gets approval for development in the
JCP. Personally, I think that the proposal looks good, and that it would be in
Eclipse's interest to support the JSR, but it doesn't feel right that I just
send an email to you without involving others from the Eclipse
community.
Questions?
Comments?
Boris
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