Time is running out for CVS at Eclipse. By extension, time is
running out for eRCP.
There needs to be a plan to get eRCP off of CVS. I've listed three
possible options. I am ready to hear alternatives.
The CVS server _will_ be shut off after December 21/2012. At that
point, the project's code will be inaccessible, and I will ask the
RT PMC to initiate a termination review.
Thanks,
Wayne
On 09/26/2012 10:23 AM, Wayne Beaton wrote:
AFAICT, eRCP is in CVS only.
If the project is terminated, we will tarball the downloads,
repositories, website, etc. They will all be accessible, but not
readily or easily.
We have some options:
1) The current development team can step up, request the Git
migration, and start contributing to the project again;
2) The PMC can declare the current development team and project
leadership ineffective and request that they be replaced (assuming
replacement committers and project leads can be identified); or
3) Archive the project.
If existing adopters aren't willing/able to step up and take over
responsibility for the project (option #2), they might consider
either grabbing the CVS repository, or Git cloning the current
code base. If the project is moved to GitHub, then the
'org.eclipse' namespace will have to be changed and--possibly--the
project name (as 'eRCP' is trademarked by the Eclipse Foundation).
Is there anybody from the project who can respond?
Wayne
On 09/26/2012 09:13 AM, Thomas Watson wrote:
My understanding is that eRCP is contained in CVS (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.ercp/?root=RT_Project)
and not SVN. The foundation is planning to pull the plug on
the CVS support this year. If there is still interest in the
community to build the current project then I think it is in
your best interest to have the current project leadership for
eRCP to create a git repository at eclipse.org to host the
code. Then it can get mirrored to github and you can do your
own maintenance there in a fork.
Wayne, does this sound reasonable to you? Should we get Eric
Hsu to open a bug to request a git repo get created to house
the eRCP bits
Tom
 andrea antonello ---09/26/2012
01:25:41 AM---Even if I am not part of the project I wanted to
ask what the termination review would mean.
From: andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ERCP developers list <ercp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 09/26/2012 01:25 AM
Subject: Re: [ercp-dev] Time for a termination review for
eRCP?
Sent by: ercp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
Even if I am not part of the project I wanted to ask what
the
termination review would mean.
I mean, even if the SVN is not migrated, are the latest
snapshots
archived and made available?
We have still projects building on the community version of
eRCP, so
it would be good to know we are not completely lost in space.
Thanks,
Andrea Antonello
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> The RT PMC list has been discussing the migration to git
[1]. The last RT
> project to move to git is eRCP. I think this project is
no longer active
> and I don't see the need to migrate eRCP to git. The PMC
has been
> discussing the need to start a termination review for
eRCP [2]. Are there
> any active committers for eRCP that have the time and
interest to keep the
> project moving forward? If not then the PMC is going to
move forward with a
> termination review.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom Watson
>
> [1] - http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/rt-pmc/msg03154.html
> [2] - http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/rt-pmc/msg03161.html
>
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