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RE: [technology-pmc] Fwd: Maynstall project status
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+1
Adding Neil.
-----Original Message-----
From: technology-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:technology-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Rizzo
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:48 AM
To: Technology PMC
Subject: Re: [technology-pmc] Fwd: Maynstall project status
If there's no more PMC feedback by this afternoon (EST) then I'm going
to propose this to the Maynstall team (Tim Webb).
Chris Aniszczyk wrote:
> +1 that seems reasonable.
>
> Can a proposal be fleshed out for the code that is useful within
> Maynstall so it can be moved somewhere?
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Eric Rizzo <eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Fellow PMC members,
> I recently noticed that the Maynstall project was withering and
> inquired with the dev list about its status. Below is the response I
> received.
> My inclination is to recommend the project be archived, with the
> data access part he speaks of being offered to the Dali project for
> possible absorption.
> Since I'm still pretty unfamiliar of the details of the Eclipse
> Development Process, I'm seeking your opinions before speaking on
> behalf of the PMC.
>
> Eric
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Project status
> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:24:29 -0500
> From: Tim Webb <tim@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> To: Eric Rizzo <eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> CC: maynstall-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:maynstall-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> References: <4A7B354C.2070700@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:4A7B354C.2070700@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
>
>
> Eric,
>
> There is the long and short answer, as there always seems to be.
>
> The short answer is Maynstall as it stands today does not have an active
> contribution base and is not what I would consider an active project.
>
> For the long answer, there are aspects of Maynstall, specifically
> regarding a way of accessing a remote JPA data model that we make use of
> on our own commercial product and once every six months have a small CVS
> commit to keep it going. This area I believe has interesting value to
> the community though the Maynstall project as it stands now does not
> represent that correctly -- the data model access was a fall out
> technology from the integration, not a key component to the initial
> contribution. I previously spoke at EclipseWorld/EclipseCon with Doug
> Clark over on EclipseLink to see about the possibility of aligning a
> subset of the services in Maynstall over in that area. The provisioning
> side of Maynstall was largely displaced with the introduction of p2;
> even on my own commercial offering we needed to stop using Maynstall for
> any provisioning and switch entirely to p2 for consistency with the
> community.
>
> As always I'm open to suggestions from others who were originally named
> committers on the project.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Eric Rizzo
> <eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>
> Hi, this is Eric Rizzo of the Technology PMC. While reviewing the
> projects under the Technology umbrella, I've noticed that Maynstall
> seems to be inactive. The newsgroup has no messages for almost a year
> and the web site and wiki do not appear to have been updated in
> quite a
> while. The mailing list has not responded to recent inquiries,
> either.
>
> What is the status of the project? We need to have a response
> from the
> project lead and/or other team members ASAP.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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