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RE: [mylar-dev] vote: new committer nomination
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+1 (albeit a little behind due to vacationing!)
Gail.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mik Kersten
> Sent: July 13, 2005 8:59 AM
> To: mylar-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mylar-dev] vote: new committer nomination
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>
> I would like to nominate Ian Bull, Chris Callendar, and Margaret-Anne
> (Peggy) Storey as committers to the Mylar project. They are
> the developers of Zest, a visualization toolkit for Eclipse,
> and based at the University of Victoria in Canada.
>
> At this year's EclipseCon we noticed that there was a
> complementary overlap between the missions of Mylar and Zest.
> Both efforts are directed at scaling the Eclipse user
> interface to gracefully handle very complex systems. Mylar's
> degree of interest model provides a focus+context model that
> visualizations can exploit, and Zest provides visualization
> mechanisms that can be used to graphically display Mylar's
> model. While the Mylar development tool and Zest should
> always remain independently usable and extendable, we see a
> deep synergy between them. Zest will make it possible to
> effectively use the real-estate of increasingly larger
> displays to show programmers rich task context in a graphical
> way. In turn, Zest will benefit from Mylar's degree of
> interest and degree of separation abstractions for navigating
> and searching visualizations of large data sets.
> We have already started down this road by working together to
> create a Mylar/Zest prototype that uses a force-directed
> graph to visualize task context.
>
> The plan is to have the UVic team commit their existing
> EPL-based implementation to a new component of Mylar called
> org.eclipse.mylar.zest.
> This component would have its own set of committers, and Ian
> Bull would act as the component lead.
>
> I would like all of the current committers to vote either +1
> or -1 for or against making Ian, Chris, and Peggy committers
> on the Mylar project.
>
> Mik
>
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