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Re: [gef-dev] Fabian Steeg to help lead Zest

If Zest has different release numbers and a different schedule from GEF,
does it make more sense for it to be a separate project? Just askin'

Wayne

On 02/10/2011 04:33 PM, Alexander Nyßen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> what about the option to deliver Zest 1.x together with GEF 3.7 for
> Indigo and to come up with a Zest 2.0 & Draw2d/GEF 4.0 combination in
> 2012? I think there are a couple of things in Draw2d/GEF that could be
> cleaned up as well, and doing so would give us the chance to better
> align the three components with each other (I haven't taken a look into
> Zest 2.0 yet, but Zest 1.x e.g. had to "fork" XYScaledGraphics, which
> could be merged back into ScaledGraphics; I suppose there are similar
> places in Zest 2.0). What do you think?
> 
> Cheers
> Alexander
> 
> Am 10.02.2011 um 19:52 schrieb Ian Bull:
> 
>> I will look at those...
>>
>> Just to be clear, we don't need to break existing users... we can ship
>> Zest 2.0 and Zest 1.x... we can also not put Zest 2.0 in the indigo
>> repo.  
>>
>> But I will review the plan.
>>
>> cheers,
>> ian
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Anthony Hunter <anthonyh@xxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:anthonyh@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     That is good Ian, there is no official process as there is no such
>>     hierarchy. We are all GEF project committers and GEF is comprised
>>     of the Draw2d, GEF and Zest components. If you wish to share the
>>     leadership of the Zest component, that is fine (there are only two
>>     Zest committers :-)).
>>
>>     A reminder of our project plan at
>>     http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=tools.gef
>>     <http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=tools.gef>
>>     . Since we are bent on a major version change to Zest breaking all
>>     existing Zest users, concrete plans would be useful.
>>
>>     Cheers...
>>     Anthony
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     From:         Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:irbull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>     To:         GEF development <gef-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:gef-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>>, Fabian Steeg <fsteeg@xxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:fsteeg@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>     Date:         02/10/2011 12:09 PM
>>     Subject:         [gef-dev] Fabian Steeg to help lead Zest
>>     Sent by:         gef-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:gef-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>
>>     I would like to nominate Fabian Steeg as co-lead for the Zest
>>     component in the GEF project.  While this is more symbolic than
>>     anything else (I'm not sure there is a formal 'lead' for component
>>     in the Eclipse Development Process).  Fabian is doing a majority
>>     of the work on Zest these days and he is showing great judgment.
>>      Fabian has an excellent understanding of Zest and has been
>>     working on the transition to Zest 2.0.  Having Fabian help lead
>>     Zest will make it a much better component!
>>
>>     I don't think there is an official process for this, but I assume
>>     that Anthony (GEF lead) and I both need to give a +1.  (This
>>     e-mail is of course my +1).
>>
>>     cheers,
>>     ian
>>
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