[eclipse.org-planning-council] Exception request for EGit

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Distinguished Planning Council (cc: Shawn Pearce, EGit Project Lead).

As you are already aware, the EGit Project did not declare their desire 
to participate in the Helios release train prior to the M4 release 
deadline. The EGit project does however, does need to be part of the 
release and has indicated their desire to participate in the Foundation 
portal. I/we believe that it is in the best interests of the broader 
Eclipse Community to permit an exception and include EGit despite them 
missing M4 deadline.

The Eclipse webmasters are in the process of implementing a number of 
upgrades to our development tools. Part of this upgrade strategy is the 
establishment of Git as a first-class source code repository at 
eclipse.org (see bug 257706 [1]). After consultation with members of the 
community and the Eclipse Architecture Council, it was decided that a 
"quality team provider" for Git must be in place prior to any attempt to 
make Git first-class at Eclipse (see bug 293192 [2]). The EGit project 
provides the required first-class tools for Git-based development.

To summarize: the success of the EGit project is fundamental to the 
adoption of Git at eclipse.org.

I ask the Planning council to make an exception to the participation 
deadline requirement and permit EGit to participate in the Helios 
Release Train.

Thank your for your consideration.

Wayne

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=257706
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=293192

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