Re: [gef-dev] GEF3 resurrection

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Serge,

Thanks a lot for this planned effort. WindowBuilder also depends on
GEF SWT. I also have multiple clients which depend on GEF SWT and I
would be interested in helping with the build and release work to get
again GEF part of the regular release train.

> What would be your expectation regarding „GEF project ownership transfer“?

Matthias and Alexander, maybe we can start with nominating Serge and
Alois as GEF committers? I would also be interested in getting commit
rights in case my help with building GEF SWT is desired. Forking the
project might not be necessary, if people can simply decide which part
of the project they are working on.

Best regards, Lars

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 9:19 PM Alois Zoitl <alois.zoitl@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Serge,
>
> I'm very happy to read that you would like to revive the Eclipse GEF legacy project. I would be happy to support you here. I would have several fixes and improvements that we currently have in Eclipse 4diac that I could contribute to such a new GEF legacy or however it would be called in the future.
>
> BR,
> Alois
>
>
> On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 19:11 +0300, Serge Rider wrote:
>
> Hi Team!
>
> I am from the DBeaver development team (https://dbeaver.io). We develop the universal database management tool based on the Eclipse RCP platform.
> Besides other Eclipse RCP extensions, we heavily rely on legacy GEF/draw2d.
>
> I was a speaker on several recent Eclipse Cons, the last session was about legacy GEF adoption:
> https://www.eclipsecon.org/2021/sessions/diagrams-eclipse-rcp-back-future
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZIUB2XFDLE
>
> What we want is to resurrect GEF3 maintenance and include it back to the standard Eclipse RCP lifecycle.
> We have several PRs we'd like to merge in the codebase (currently we maintain all fixes in our forked repository on GitHub). We also want to propose legacy API improvements (keeping  API backward compatibility) and several features.
>
> As far as I know, there are other groups of developers who eagerly want to contribute and/or maintain the GEF legacy project.
>
> So, generally, the question is about the GEF project ownership transfer.
>
> I don't know who owns the legacy GEF project.
> If anyone can help us with this we would be really grateful.
>
> Best regards,
> Serge Rider
> DBeaver CTO, developer
>
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