Re: [platform-ui-dev] [proposal] Unite platform text and UI projects for

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +1 for merging eclipse.platform.text into eclipse.platform.ui
>
> I would be happy to work more in eclipse.platform.text but the lack of
> review feedback has hold me of for it. Critical patches like
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/21478/ have not received time attention
> (except from me) have have been post phoned already two releases due
> to slow feedback.
>
> Best regards, Lars
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Recently I was trying to update the platform text projects to BREE 1.7 to
>> get rid of nasty compile problems with incompatible JRE (platform text still
>> insists to see JRE 1.4 on classpath), see [1], but so far it didn't found
>> any feedback except the one non-text committer (it was Lars as usually :-)).
>>
>> This does not surprise me, especially looking on the project statistics [2]
>> where one can see that there are actually only 2 active committers with
>> commit rights on the platform text (Dani and Markus), and the 2 commits
>> which were made from non-project contributors are representing 9% of the
>> project activity in the last 3 months! BTW both those "external" 2 commits
>> were made by platform UI committers.
>>
>> So while we all know how overloaded both active platform text committers
>> are, and how bad our overall state with reviewing bugs and patches etc is,
>> why not unite our forces and integrate platform text into platform UI
>> project? Those two projects have really many things in common and it feels
>> naturally for me if we could allow both teams to work on their code
>> together. Actually the half of platform text committers are already platform
>> UI committers, but unfortunately not other way around.
>>
>> So what do you think?
>> Does this proposal makes sense for you?
>>
>> Are platform UI committer ready to take over few projects from platform
>> text? Are platform text committers agree to give platform UI members commit
>> rights on platform text and vice versa?
>>
>> Few data about projects in platform text: 6 projects (without tests), ~1200
>> files, 4 committers (2 active):
>>
>> org.eclipse.core.filebuffers
>> org.eclipse.jface.text
>> org.eclipse.search
>> org.eclipse.text
>> org.eclipse.ui.editors
>> org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor
>>
>> For comparison: Platform UI: 38 projects (without tests), ~5200 files, 25
>> committers (although I guess only half of them are active).
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=478673
>> [2] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.platform.text/who
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> Andrey Loskutov
>>
>> http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
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