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[science-iwg] Benefits of the Science Working Group
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During the call, we were talking about the Science Top Level Project
(TLP) and it benefits.
Outlining the benefits could help attract new members.
Below are some of the benefits that we discussed, please feel free to
edit or add to the items below:
* True collaboration on common tools like January
* Simultaneous releases, which help drive release date selection for
individual projects.
* Simultaneous releases also help us get changes through the
contribution questionnaire. Having other members of the Science TLP see
the CQ process is helpful. It could also be that by having a larger
combined release, we get more attention in the CQ process than we might
if we were individuals. (FIXME: My guess is that the CQ team would
probably correctly state that they play no favorites and handle CQs as
quickly as possible with a good set of priorities. The point more is
that we are working on a simultaneous release, which is like working on
an entire book or journal, where some of the contributions get helped or
pulled along because of the deadline. Better text could help here)
* A smaller community of developers who will provide assistance with
bringing up a new project. There is quite a bit to learn and the
Eclipse mailing lists are great, but being able to ask an embarrassingly
naive question to a smaller group is really helpful. Part of this is
that if a project is a Science project, then the other members of the
Science project have a stronger connection to new projects and have more
invested in seeing the new project succeed.
* The Science TLP was able to work with the Eclipse org about licensing
(FIXME: need more about licensing, my recollection is that Science
projects tend to use non-Eclipse licenses, especially LGPL and we were
able to reach an agreement about this. Or was it about dual licensing?)
* We've found it easier to get committers added via the Science TLP.
I'm sure that there are others. It might be helpful to have something
like the above on https://science.eclipse.org/
_Christopher
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Christopher Brooks, PMP
Academic Program Manager
iCyPhy/Ptolemy/TerraSwarm
University of California, Berkeley
707.332.0670, cxh@xxxxxxxxxxxx, https://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cxh
