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Re: [technology-pmc] Creation Review Approval Request
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On 28.08.2008, at 13:59, Wayne Beaton wrote:
I'd like to see a little more of your plan? Do you have any thoughts
about what might be done beyond Jan 2009?
Frankly, that's a little bit difficult at that moment. GEF3D is part
of my Ph.D. project and I want to finish my thesis in March 2009 (this
is my personal tentative plan). Kristian Duske is a student and he is
planing to finish his master thesis in January 2009 (I'm his tutor).
Since we both are using GEF3D in our work, we will certainly implement
the issues scheduled for the 0.9 release (e.g. the 3D ecore editor is
part of Kristians thesis).
There are some core features which are not implemented yet, e.g.:
- handlers for enabling rotation and 3D-movement of 3D figures
- support direct edit (e.g. by using a camera track and GEF's SWT-
overlay technique or something else)
I need these features for my project, so I'm pretty sure to implement
this till March 2009. With these things implemented, GEF3D will be
read to be used for many cases -- this is why I would call it version
0.9 then (or 0.9.1 ;-) ) Other students are working with GEF3D, too,
and there may be more features to be implemented -- but I've learned
not to count on
Besides my personal situation we'll need a community to define more
required features and how important these features (or bugs) are. In
other words: I will be happy with GEF3D version 0.9, since I will
implement everything I need for my Ph.D. thesis. Of course I have
thousands of ideas what to do with GEF3D, especially in the context of
MDD ans Software Visualization. But I don't want to "invent" features
now for use cases which may never be realized.
Does it make any sense to, at some point, consider merging this
project
with GEF?
Yes, this may make sense (at some point). If you look at the code,
GEF3D (and Draw3D) are pretty small plugins. Actually I worked hard on
keeping them that small, since I wanted to used as much things from
GEF and Draw2D as possible. I did this because I wanted to be able to
port existing 2D editors.
At some point it may be interesting to merge GEF and GEF3D in order to
make editors automatically 2D and 3D-able. Currently existing editors
must be tweaked a little bit. But this depends on the community,
especially on the GEF community. Since I'm trying to remove the LWJGL
dependencies, merging may become more easily because in that case no
third party library needs to be added if you don't want to actually
use 3D.
Jens
