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

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Mik: +1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mik Kersten
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:26 AM
> To: 'Mylar developer discussions'
> Subject: RE: [mylar-dev] vote: new committer nomination
> 
> Gail Murphy is away on vacation but has approved of the committer
> nomination, so I am putting her vote in:
> 
> +1
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > 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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