Re: [modeling-pmc] MDT UML2 Profiles Project Proposal

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For completeness, a project is "just a container project" by convention only. The formal notion of "container" was removed from the EDP some time ago. It is perfectly natural/reasonable for a mid-level project to have code/resources and committers. Whether or not that makes sense here is a different question.

If creating a whole separate project is the right thing to do, then we should do that. My primary concern is that we have a lot of modeling projects with 1 or 2 active committers and I often hear complains that maintaining a project is "too hard" or "too much work". By creating a new project, we're adding to that work.

I'm also not entirely comfortable with a project made entirely of components that "usually evolve once a year". Though, I guess that Orbit sets a precedent here.

Having said all that, the "Initial Committers" section is really an "Initial Contribution" section. Who are the initial committers? We also need a "Why Eclipse?" section as defined by the proposal template.

Wayne

On 05/29/2012 04:12 PM, Kenn Hussey wrote:

Well, this functionality is (mostly) independent from the UML metamodel per se and would have a different lifecycle and set of committers... and the MDT project is just a container project, so I'm not sure it would make sense for it to be hosted at that level.

Kenn

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Wayne Beaton <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Kenn.

Does this really need to be a separate project? We can set up all the things you list, website, mailing list, etc. without creating a whole new project.

Does it make sense to consider extending the scope of UML2? Or might it be a resource that maintained by the MDT project?

Wayne

On 05/22/2012 04:14 PM, Kenn Hussey wrote:

The Modeling project would like to propose creation of a new "UML2 Profiles" subproject of MDT. The proposed project is about providing implementations of "standard" UML profiles and a repository in/from which to discover/install them.

The draft proposal can be found at http://wiki.eclipse.org/UML2_Profiles_Proposal and the email thread where the Modeling PMC provided approval can be found at http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/modeling-pmc/msg02391.html. Please let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks,

Kenn

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