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[nebula-dev] NatTable EPP
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Hi all,
Once upon a time, there was a proposal to bring NatTable to Eclipse... :-)
It has taken some time, but we've gotten through all the IP
attribution issues finally and I have the go ahead from Eclipse legal
to push this forward again. In the meantime I know Nebula has been
going through changes as well. Importantly, in order to move forward
this needs to be pushed by the Nebula folks. Tom, would you still be
the one to do this or does that fall to Wim now?
Also, I wanted to update everyone on the current status and sync up on
the plan for moving forward to make sure we're all on the same page:
The original New Widget request for NatTable is here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=328836
The latest version of the code attached to this is NatTable 2.2.0. The
current production version is 2.3.0. No additional dependencies have
been added in the interim, but there is new post-2.3.0 code in trunk
that introduces a new dependency on Apache Poi for table export. This
is packaged as a separate extension bundle however, so if there are
issues with this we can always omit it from moving over to Eclipse.
The NatTable Eclipse Project Proposal is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Krpj0ceaWqP-WndbR1Ba79gwhGCbUHNspw-j9naYPQc/edit?hl=en_US
The only update that may need to be made for this is the tentative
project schedule, which currently indicates code contribution and
migration to Eclipse is Q4 2011..
The plan for moving NatTable to Nebula was to make it a Nebula
subproject rather than incorporating it into the conglomerate Nebula
project and build. Tom and I favored this approach because we wanted
to preserve the ability for NatTable to maintain its own independent
release schedule. NatTable has 7 active committers and a history of
putting out regular releases over the past four years. I'm happy to
take on the additional maintenance overhead of treating NatTable as a
separate project since that's what it is now anyway.
Wayne needs confirmation from the Nebula project that we want to move
forward with NatTable as a Nebula subproject, and then my
understanding from legal is that we'd need someone from Nebula to kick
off the CQ.
It's been over a year since we started this journey and I'm eager to
see this through. :-)
Thanks,
Edwin
