[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: E4 / SWT 4.0

["Boris Bokowski" <Boris_Bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ed Merks" <merks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Francis,
>
> ...
>
> You give great advice.  How did you get to be so smart anyway?  :-P

Very recently, Francis was elected as a committer on the Platform UI 
component.  Could there be a correlation? ;-P

But honestly, things are changing. Looking at the list of active committers 
for the Platform project, and more specifically Platform UI (JFace, 
Workbench, IDE), there are six active committers who work for IBM and two 
who don't work for IBM. With Francis joining our team, we will have six vs. 
three, or 66% IBMers and 33% non-IBMers, which I think is quite good given 
that we are talking about a mature code base that has been developed by only 
IBMers over many years.

Just to be clear, this is real participation in a core piece of Eclipse.  We 
are certainly not as diverse as for example CDT, but if you compare with 
other projects at Eclipse that started with a contribution from a single 
company, I believe that we are opening this up pretty successfully.  (At 
least that is how I like to think about it.)

So in a nutshell, participation is possible and real, and it might even be 
rewarding. Talk to e.g. Tom Schindl, Matthew Hall, or Francis Upton if you 
want to find out more about how they became committers and why they are 
doing it.

Boris