Re: [emf-dev] How to contribute features to JET ?

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can contribute by opening a bugzilla
feature request and providing patches that can be applied to implement
your request.   If the feature being requested makes sense for general
users and/or the impact of the code has little or no adverse affect on
existing users who don't wish to exploit nor pay for the cost of the new
feature, then all should be good.  You don't need to be a member,
but you do need a bugzilla account to formalize your contribution.  The
EMF team does need to accept your contribution; that will be based on its
quality and utility.  The existing set of committers is responsible
for EMF and they will decide which contributions to accept:

http://www.eclipse.org/tools/commit.html

Discussing your ideas on the newsgroup
is the best place to get feedback.  

Working with a source image extracted
from CVS would be the best way to provide patches that can be directly
used

http://eclipse.org/emf/docs.php?doc=docs/cvsdoc/emfcvsug.html


Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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M C <mortench2004@xxxxxxxx>
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07/30/2005 09:52 AM

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Subject	[emf-dev] How to contribute features to JET ?

I am considering using JET for general code generation
tasks. However, JET lacks a few features that I need.

With Eclipse being open source, I guess I can make the
modifications myself but am not sure what the process
is for making official contributions (to be a part of
a future emf version).

Questions:
1) I have never contributed to eclipse before so I do
not know the process - What is the process ? Do I need
to a member to contribute ? Will my features need to
be formally approved ? 
2) Which person(s) are responsible for EMF? Is there
someone I could contact with my concrete suggestions
and discuss the details before I proceed ?
3) Any advice to the partical technical steps for
setting/testing a eclipse project in eclipse 3.1 that
will allow me to make changes in JET? I guess I could
copy the EMF sources to a new clean eclipse install
and replace the EMF runtime in my orginal install with
the compile classes each time I want to test it... An
easier solution would be nice. 

Cheers,
Morten
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