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Hi Janet and all,
first of all thanks for all your hard and
diligent work ensuring we have clean IP
at Eclipse! I have sent you
the editied spreadsheet for dsdp.tm directly.
But let me also say that I'm sort of alarmed by the fact
that the cutoff date for 3rd
party contributions (are these any non-committer
contributions?) is Jan.31st for a
release targeted end of June. It made me add a "virtual"
contribution that has not
been filed yet due to internal reviews at IBM but that
we'll definitely need for Europa.
Taking into account that one of the contributions from us
in the queue is a plain-EPL
contribution of newly written code from Montavista, and
this has been waiting for
2 months now, I'm fearing that we are
threatening community contributions
away,
thus becoming an elitary club rather than real community.
Such contributions are
written and donated in good spirit, trying to help - and
then we just cannot accept
them due to lack of resources. Is there a bottleneck? How
does that compare to
other Open Source initiatives like Apache or Sourceforge?
Is there a problem
with the
model we have for contributions and, especially,
redistribution
of 3rd party IP in the form of
libraries?
The other thing that's alarming me is that it looks like a
good deal of the hard-felt
work of our IP experts is getting the
management of those items in the queue
that just can't be finished quickly -- work time
that's so much needed.
I'm not blaming any of you faithful folks from
the IP department, I'm sure that
all your diligence is very much needed and you're doing
your very best to be of good
service. But it feels like there's a desperate need for
good ideas how to improve things.
Perhaps it would help to find ways how we can better
leverage and pull 3rd party
libraries out of their native homes at runtime rather than
investing so much time
into finding out whether we can redistribute them
ourselves? - Anybody with
good ideas please speak up!
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems,
Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
In preparation for the upcoming
Europa release we are soliciting your feedback so that we can better
understand your needs and relative priorities. Attached you will find a
spreadsheet that has a list of all unresolved IPBugs that have been submitted
by projects identified as participants in Europa on: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Simultaneous_Release.
I'm asking each project to
indicate for their project only - (i) whether the requirement identified in
the IPBug is required for Europa, and (ii) the relative priority of each of
the IPBugs requested. Please include your response in the spreadsheet
attached and reply to me with a copy to emo@xxxxxxxxxxx.
We will do our best to get through
the IPBugs you identify as requirements for Europa in time for the
release. In order to make this process manageable however, we will have
a cut-off of January 31st to have IPBugs eligible for consideration.
IPBugs submitted after January 31st will not be eligible for
inclusion in Europa.
Regards,
Janet
Janet
Campbell
Legal Counsel & Manager,
Intellectual Property
Eclipse Foundation
Inc.
Phone: (613) 224-9461, x.229
(GMT -5)
Fax: (613)
224-5172
Email: janet.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxx
Alternate email: janet@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.eclipse.org
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