I have had a lot of off-line conversations with Brock and a few others
about submitting a proposal to Eclipse to create an SVN Team Provider
based on Subclipse. At the time, I was not sure if I was going to be able
to devote the time required to create the proposal and lead the effort and
no one else has come forward to do so. Things have changed for the better
for me, so I can now safely do this and would like to.
I think one of the strengths of Subclipse is our community and the diverse
group of individuals that have made contributions. Subclipse is not the
result of the effort of one person or one company. I would like to
continue this tradition as we begin this process and do everything out in
the open. When I have the proposal to a good enough stage to call it a
rough draft I will commit it into our repository and post the URL and
checkout information to this list. That way it will be easier to work on
this proposal in a collaborative manner.
In the meantime it would be useful to know who would like to participate
in this project and be listed in the proposal? Myself, and some of my
coworkers that have contributed behind the scenes will be listed. Brock
has agreed to be listed. What about others? Martin, Eugene, Johan,
others? This would be a good time for all with interest to come forward.
Another issue is going to be the license. We will need to get approval
from everyone that has contributed code to have their code re-licensed
under the EPL. The EPL is virtually identical to the CPL license we use
for Subclipse, and is very similar in intent to the Apache license we use
in svnClientAdapter. So I am not anticipating any difficulties in this
area. If you have contributed code to this project, it would be helpful
if you send an email to the list stating your
approval/disapproval/concerns about this. The mailing list can then serve
as a record of your intent.
Aside from all of this, I will also be interested in your comments about
this. I know a lot of people will be in favor of it, but if you have
concerns, please share them. Subclipse has become very stable and I think
the list of things we need or would like to do has become small and
manageable enough that this is the right time to do this. I did not want
to do this before we got past the 1.0 stage because I did not want to
divert that process. We have now given our users a stable and
feature-rich release, and are close to releasing a second major release
aimed at Eclipse 3.2. So this is probably a point in time where we can
afford to spend refactoring package and class names and dealing with
license issues.
Thanks
Mark
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Received on Fri Jun 30 18:41:02 2006