RE: [mylar-dev] vote: new committer nomination

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Gail Murphy is away on vacation but has approved of the committer
nomination, so I am putting her vote in: 

+1

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Shawn Minto
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:23 AM
> To: Mylar developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [mylar-dev] vote: new committer nomination
> 
> +1
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Mik Kersten wrote:
> 
> >
> > I would like to nominate Ian Bull, Chris Callendar, and Margaret-Anne
> > (Peggy) Storey as committers to the Mylar project.  They are the
> developers
> > of Zest, a visualization toolkit for Eclipse, and based at the
> University of
> > Victoria in Canada.
> >
> > At this year's EclipseCon we noticed that there was a complementary
> overlap
> > between the missions of Mylar and Zest.  Both efforts are directed at
> > scaling the Eclipse user interface to gracefully handle very complex
> > systems.  Mylar's degree of interest model provides a focus+context
> model
> > that visualizations can exploit, and Zest provides visualization
> mechanisms
> > that can be used to graphically display Mylar's model.  While the Mylar
> > development tool and Zest should always remain independently usable and
> > extendable, we see a deep synergy between them.  Zest will make it
> possible
> > to effectively use the real-estate of increasingly larger displays to
> show
> > programmers rich task context in a graphical way.  In turn, Zest will
> > benefit from Mylar's degree of interest and degree of separation
> > abstractions for navigating and searching visualizations of large data
> sets.
> > We have already started down this road by working together to create a
> > Mylar/Zest prototype that uses a force-directed graph to visualize task
> > context.
> >
> > The plan is to have the UVic team commit their existing EPL-based
> > implementation to a new component of Mylar called
> org.eclipse.mylar.zest.
> > This component would have its own set of committers, and Ian Bull would
> act
> > as the component lead.
> >
> > I would like all of the current committers to vote either +1 or -1 for
> or
> > against making Ian, Chris, and Peggy committers on the Mylar project.
> >
> > Mik
> >
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> >
> >
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