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RE: [rt-pmc] incubating projects 
Jeff,

+1 for moving the incubation work with Equinox.

Would it not make more sense to organize your CVS/SVN at the time of the move to match the future nesting of projects but then just to have a single incubation component within Equinox.

/equinox
	/component1
	/component2
	/incubation
		/platform	
		/equinox
		/pde

Then in the future you simply 'promote' each of these areas which for now are simply folders in the incubation component to being incubating sub-projects of equinox. The only thing you would lose in the short term is bugzilla component organization for these (which could be a showstopper if each of these incubating projects has existing bugs).

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff McAffer [mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:04 PM
To: Runtime Project PMC mailing list
Subject: [rt-pmc] incubating projects


All,

We are setting up to move the Equinox project to RT.  We curently have 
an associated set of incubating work in the Eclipse/Eclipse 
Incubator/Equinox component.  We would like to move that as well. There 
are a couple questions.  First, we need to get approval from the two 
PMCs (origin and destination).  So for RT, any objections to moving the 
Equinox incubation work along with Equinox itself?

Assuming that is good, next question

Where should we put the Equinox incubator and incubators in general?  In 
the Eclipse project we have one "Incubator" subproject with components 
for platform, equinox, pde, ...  The Eclipse project is however much 
more coherent than RT.  It is not clear to me that having one global RT 
Incubator makes sense.  The other proposal is ot create an Equinox 
Incubator project.  This is cleaner but may set a bad precedent (i.e., 
we would end up with every main project and a corresponding incubator).

On reviewing this it turns out that the new development process may 
offer some answers.  The new process (to be reviewed by the board later 
i nthe summer) allows for deep nesting of projects.  So in the future we 
could have RT/Equinox/Incubator/... rather than RT/Equinox 
Incubator/...  (note the missing / in the second example).

Concretely then the proposal is to make RT/Equinox Incubator now (by 
moving over the current work) and then when the new process kicks in, we 
would just do a paper move to get the Equionx incubator under the 
equinox project.

I know that this is a lot of process administrivia but we want to start 
RT off clean and keep it that way.  That means paying attention to these 
kinds of details.  Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Jeff
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