[rap-dev] Re: [riena-dev] Change of Plans in Riena...

[Elias Volanakis <elias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

I think Riena on RAP and Riena on e4 good goals to pursue.

Elias.

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Christian Campo
<christian.campo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rienaers, (Riena committers, contributors, users, interested parties)
>
> "dont surprise your community" is one of the key points when dealing with
> others in an open source environment. So I have explain a little for a
> change in our plans and I hope I dont surprise anyone here.
>
> When we create Riena 2.0 for the Helios release we published that our next
> release would be 2.1. in december this year. That pretty much followed what
> we did the year before where we have a minor release after 6 month.
>
> Now several month in the time "after Helios", when we looked for ways to go
> we had some interesting discussions among us committers (mostly face 2 face
> or telco's).
>
> We'd like to make a major step in making Riena work really way better under
> RAP. A second goal is to investigate and prototyp making Riena run on e4,
> not only on the compatibility layer but also using the new workbench model
> and all the other new stuff that is part of it.
>
> However we cannot do all at the same time.
>
> In any event, having a midterm release in december seems to stop us from
> making a big step forward. So we decided that our next release is Riena 3.0
> which will come with Indigo in June 2011. We will publish milestones along
> the line with Indigo (Eclipse 3.7).
>
> A new major version is not only necessary because it is a big step forward
> but it also need some flexibilty (nice wording :-) ) for breaking API. We
> will do that we the same kind of documentation and caution that we used for
> Riena 2.0. But certain things will need to change.
>
> Our main focus will be to improve the RAP support. And that will also mean
> that we have to make a number of changes in our code. Elias was kind enough
> to start a wiki page http://wiki.eclipse.org/Riena_on_RAP with some issues
> that we need to address.
>
> The second task (with less prio) is to investigate what it means to also run
> on the native new API of e4 and build prototypes for that. We have already
> started and will keep on going there and start to create bundles for that.
>
> Any feedback, comments, contribution, help or anything is welcomed at this
> point in time.
>
> If you have an opinion about the direction we are taking let us know......
>
> christian
>
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