Re: [modeling-pmc] Jean Bezivin has stepped down from his Eclipse respon

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed.

Every once in a while, the Technology project does a project purge. We
start by putting together a list of candidates and then try to determine
how active the projects are. We basically take on the termination
process ourselves because the project members tend to be under-motivated
to effect the reviews themselves. Where possible, we get a +1 from the
project lead before we finalize the list.

Here's our list of terminations that we're targeting for December 2011:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Technology/Subproject_Termination_Review_2011

Termination reviews don't require a huge amount of documentation; they
just need to provide some discussion of why the project is terminating
(in Technology, it tends to be lack of involvement), along with a list
of the things that need to happen to complete the termination/archival
process. We lump the lot of them into a single review document (i.e the
wiki page)

We did something similar with DSDP:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/Restructuring_Review

Let me know if you want any help getting started in assembling something
similar for Modeling (there may be other candidate projects outside of GMT).

HTH,

Wayne

On 10/15/2011 02:34 AM, Ed Merks wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> Comments below.
>
> On 14/10/2011 10:25 PM, Wayne Beaton wrote:
>> Greetings Modeling PMC.
>>
>> Jean Bezivin has asked me to retire him from his leadership positions
>> within Eclipse. I have removed Jean from the Modeling PMC and retired
>> him as PL for Open Model CourseWare (OMCW) [1] and GMT [2] projects.
>>
>> I'll take this opportunity to thank Jean for his many contributions to
>> the Eclipse community. Thank you, Jean.
> Indeed. It's been a pleasure working with him over all these years.
>>
>> With Jean Bezivin's retirement, the two projects have no project leads.
>> Can you please make it a priority to find suitable replacements? The
>> first order of business for new project leads will be to retire Jean's
>> committer status on the projects.
>>
>> FWIW, OMCW appears dead, but I think that's because it's content is
>> entirely contained in the project website. There is no content in the
>> project's SVN repository. It seems like there is some valuable content
>> there, but I wonder if this is the right place for it? Does it, perhaps,
>> fit in the wiki? i.e. is it time to terminate/archive this project?
> Yes, I think it's time to archive it.
>>
>> FWIW, there have been no changes in the OMCW project's website for more
>> than year; and only a handful (3 files) in the past two years.
> It's also time to terminate GMT.   I believe Epsilon is the only
> active project left in there and they've been asked to move to EMFT so
> we should take the necessary steps to make that happen.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> [1] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=modeling.gmt.omcw
>> [2] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=modeling.gmt
>>
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