| [gef-dev] GEF4 - Committer Nomination |
| My dear fellow committers, it has been about a year that we started the GEF4 provisional component (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=347636 for details). Our initial plan then was to create a new GEF4 Geometry API as a starting point (an initial nucleus) and to port Draw2d/GEF 3.x code base to it after the Juno release. While this is still valid, I am very happy that we got our "Zest guys" into the boat as well, so the plan has been extended to also migrate the Zest2 code base to it (after Juno as well) and to have a unified modernization approach, labeled GEF4, afterwards (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372365 for details). Much work has thus been spent on creating the new GEF4 Geometry API in the last year, and I am glad to announce that we will actually be able to "release" sort of a first milestone of it shortly after the Juno release (which I think can serve as a starting point for migrating the other components as planned). This was only possible because Matthias Wienand, who is an apprentice/student trainee that works at itemis under my supervision, has contributed large parts to it (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355997 for details; he has also spend considerable work in building up the reference documentation for GEF4 Geometry at http://wiki.eclipse.org/GEF/GEF4/Geometry and is still doing so). I have talked with Matthias, and he is willing to further support us with GEF4 (and I think he is capable to do so), so I would like to nominate him as a committer on it (handling each contribution via a CQ has become quite cumbersome). As we have agreed here some time ago when initiating the GEF4 modernization approach, we wanted to start GEF4 as a provisional component, seeing no need for an incubator project at first, and we wanted to re-raise the question of whether to create an incubator or not in case a) community wants to get actively involved or b) Juno has been released (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=347636 for details). Both is now pretty much the case. I am still of the opinion that we do not need an incubator project to work on the GEF4 component, but this would mean I had to nominate Matthias as a committer on GEF legal and we would have to have some kind of gentleman agreement that he will only work on GEF4 and not on the other components (similar to what we are currently already doing w.r.t. to our other sub-component committership), in case you guys elect him. What do you think? Cheers Alexander Dr. Alexander Nyßen Dipl.-Inform. Software-Engineer Telefon: +49 (0) 231 / 98 60-210 Telefax: +49 (0) 231 / 98 60-211 Mobil: +49 (0) 151 / 17396743 itemis AG
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