[orbit-dev] Contributing docker-client (and deps) to Orbit

[Roland Grunberg <rgrunber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At EclipseCon NA 2015 Jeff demonstrated some ongoing work for Docker
support in Eclipse [1]. The project will initially be part of the Linux
Tools Project with another component being contributed to the CDT. We plan
to have this make it in for the Mars Simultaneous release.

The only thing remaining is to contribute the third party dependencies of
this work to Orbit. The core plugin is using the docker-client [2] Java
library to support interacting with a docker daemon. Its various
dependencies [3] also have corresponding CQs and have mostly been approved
with a few still pending (mostly the jnr-* libraries). While this seems
like a lot of packages, it's not that different from the other well-known
library (docker-java) so we'd be in the same position.

I would like to start the process to become an Orbit committer so that I
may contribute these packages and maintain them going forward. Jeff and I
have also been working with Max and Xavier who have made some awesome 
contributions to this project so I'm sure there's interest in such 
capabilities being brought under the Eclipse ecosystem.

Cheers,
-- 
Roland Grunberg

[1] https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2015/session/docker-and-linux-tools
[2] https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9214
[3] https://rgrunber.fedorapeople.org/docker-client-deps.svg