[epf-dev] EPF 1.0 is released!

[Per Kroll <pkroll@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Team, 

we shold be very proud over what we have accomplished. Today, EPF 1.0 went
out, see http://www.eclipse.org/epf/downloads/tool/epf1.0_downloads.php,
and I think it is an important milestone for the industry. I am convinced,
as are many of you, that EPF will radically change the whole dynamics of
the process landscape. It will help drive unification and collaboration
of software best practices as never before, which will help accelerate
industry adoption of practices known to impove productivity and quality.

Interesting project statistics: 
- We have closed 895 bugs and enhancements 
- 36 different people have owned a bug 
- We have had 6 face-to-face meetings with more than 100 participants in
total 
- We have 27 committers and 13 contributors from 16 organizations listed
in the IP log <More than that have added value>
- We have made 21,441 committs to CVS 
  

What did we accomplish 
- We built a strong developer community 
- We have made significant progress towards building a strong end user
and value-add communities 
- We have built a very stable and mature EPF Composer
- We have produced a strong OpenUP/Basic 
- We graduated from the incubation phase to the implementation phase


EPF Next Steps
With this release, we have laid the
foundation for the next important steps for EPF 
- We can now expand to cover also other process. XP, Scrum, Agile Modeling,
DSDM are all jumping on the bits... 
- We can now expand OpenUP content beyond OpenUP/Basic to focus on value-add
content around MDD, GUI prototyping, database modeling, deployment, etc.
- As more on more processes are available in EPF, we can leverage each
other's content. Maybe there is good stuff in XP that we can bring over
to OpenUP, etc. 
- Further expand on the tooling capabilities, covering capabilities such
as Wiki. 
- Expand the community, gaining more direct involvement and feedback from
end user, universities, adopting organizations, and others.


Again, thanks for all your hard work, it's been a pleasure! Open source
works... 

Cheers 

Per Kroll
Project Lead: Eclipse Process Framework
Rational Software, IBM Corp
(M) 408-219-2963