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RE: [technology-pmc] Restructuring ACTF Project
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Wayne addressed the question about splitting up the project and that may
very well be the best option, but I wanted to make sure that the rest of the
question was addressed too.
> We'll continue to look for new contributors who have interest in
> that part. However, if we come to the conclusion that we should
> archive it, can we archive only the inactive part? In the Eclipse
> development process, only a project or sub-project can receive the
> archived state [2]. We would like to know how to archive some part
> of a project.
There is really nothing stopping a project from throwing away chunks of the
code base for a variety of reasons. There is no formal archiving process as
there is for projects. You just delete the source in CVS and that's that.
Just make sure that you have involved your entire project in the decision
and have communicated your intentions accordingly to any potential
downstream consumers.
Hope this helps.
- Konstantin
-----Original Message-----
From: technology-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:technology-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kentarou Fukuda
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:00 AM
To: Technology PMC
Subject: [technology-pmc] Restructuring ACTF Project
Hi Technology-PMC,
ACTF project is now working to develop future release plans. For this
work, we have questions about Eclipse release and archive processes.
Currently, only a project or sub-project is allowed to do a release.
However, due to differences in the development schedules, maturity,
resources, and so on, it is difficult to schedule simultaneous releases of
complete ACTF components.
For more flexible releases, we think dividing the ACTF project into some
sub-projects is a possible solution [1]. ACTF has 3 major components
(Validation, Visualization and Alternative Interface) and the common
infrastructure (Core), so we might be able to divide ACTF into these 4
sub-projects. We are also now considering if there is another possible way
for restructuring.
Before starting preparation of this restructuring, we would like to have
your advice about it. For example, are there other good ways, etc..
In addition to this, some plugins of ACTF are now nearly dormant. We are
considering whether or not they can or should be archived.
We'll continue to look for new contributors who have interest in that
part. However, if we come to the conclusion that we should archive it, can
we archive only the inactive part? In the Eclipse development process,
only a project or sub-project can receive the archived state [2]. We would
like to know how to archive some part of a project.
We found that similar questions were raised in the Nebula project last
year [3], but we would like to know your thought in our case.
Thank you in advance for your support.
[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/actf-dev/msg00256.html
[2]
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#6_2_6_Ar
chived
[3] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/technology-pmc/msg01395.html
Best regards,
Kentarou
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Kentarou Fukuda, Ph.D.
IBM Research - Tokyo
Tel: +81-46-215-4659
E-mail: kentarou@xxxxxxxxxx
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