| Re: [modisco-dev] On the immediate future of the MoDisco project |
Hi(Apologies for the irregular thread linkage; I've only just subscribed to this list.)
I have offered to provide life support for the Modisco project, so please refrain from creating a GitHub fork until you have seen how the next few months pan out.
Life support means that the project will be built regularly to remain current and will once again be contributed to SimRel. To this end the Maven/Tycho build may be regularized to eliminate the proprietary EMF Facet auto-pom generation in favour of the Tycho auto-pom generation. A single simple launch in a user workspace after a GIT checkout should create a distribution that differs from the official distribution only through the lack of signing. The releng will probably be very similar to that for OCL, QVTd, QVTo.
Life support means that bugs will mostly not be fixed. However really trivial/offensive bugs may provoke action.
If the continuance of Modisco inspires the community to contribute fixes, these should be reviewed and provided tests don't break may be incorporated.
If a community member makes significant contributions, that member may well merit election to committer status and perhaps project leader as well.
If evolution of perhaps Java 14 results in breakages to traditional usage, it may be necessary for Modisco functionality to shrink unless someone steps up to rework the breakage.
Regards Ed Willink