| Re: [rap-dev] Widget Contribution to RAP Incubator |
| Hi Austin, It is great to hear that you want to join the RAP community as a committer. Welcome! I looked at the various things you integrated with RAP and it all looks really cool. Regarding your first planned contribution we will have to talk to the Eclipse IP team, as the License of the Emprise _javascript_ Charts is not EPL. I see the analogy with the Google Maps example, and I have to admit that we did not run that by the IP team. There is a subtle difference because we are not distributing this example as part of our releases, it simply serves as example code. Not sure what the conclusion of the IP team is going to be, but I am optimistic that we will find a solution. There is "glue code" to commercial / non free stuff in other projects, but it requires special treatment and authorization. The Simile Timeline and Open Layers Map look great, and would also be very welcome contributions. A coverflow widget would be really cool, did you use any third party library for building it? If there is any code that you developed yourself without the use of a library this would be the easiest to get started with. Second easiest is code using compatible open source licenses, which should work with both Timeline and Map. Third party code will have to get cleared in any event, but this can happen in parallel with development because the RAP incubator project is in "incubation state". Regarding the next steps: - Did you clarify with your employer that you can become a committer at Eclipse? You will need an employer consent form and individual committer agreement: - We will start a discussion with the IP team around the contribution of the Emprise Wrapper. - Maybe you could reconsider the order of your planned contributions to ease the start? I hope you don't find this message confusing, if you have any questions I would be happy to talk to you. I am sure that Chris Aniszczyk will also be available to help you getting started with contributing to Eclipse. Best Regards, Jochen ### Jochen Krause EclipseSource Am 20.11.2009 um 15:55 schrieb Austin Riddle: Hello RAP Team, As a part of my consulting work for a company called Enelytics LLC., I have written a custom widget implementation of a subset of the charting API provided by Emprise _javascript_ Charts: http://www.ejschart.com/index.php I have permission from Enelytics to contribute this effort back to the community, and I would like to become a committer to the RAP incubator to accomplish this. Brief Description: The Emprise Charts are 100% _javascript_, and they provide a Personal Edition that is Free. So similarly to how the Google Maps custom RAP widget assumes "personal use" unless a license is purchased, these widgets would be similar. Current State: Up to now I have the Bar, Stack, and Line chart implemented. Intentions: As a committer I would continue to evolve the project to support more of the API, obviously accepting the input and contributions of the community. My hope is that this would be a trial for the future contribution of other widgets to the incubator. My primary job is for the Texas Center for Applied Technology (TCAT), which is an agency of the State of Texas, US. At TCAT we have developed custom RAP widgets using open-source _javascript_ projects. I would like to contribute in the future, some of the widgets we currently use to include: 1) Simile Timeline (from MIT) 2) Open Layers Map 3) "Cover flow" widget. I have spoken to Chris Aniszczyk about it and he recommended to send this email. Please let me know what is the next step. Thanks, Austin Riddle Software Engineer Computing and Information Technology Division Texas Center for Applied Technology Texas Engineering Experiment Station Ph. 979-458-7680 _______________________________________________ rap-dev mailing list rap-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/rap-dev |