Re: [science-pmc] ChemClipse / Retire Project Lead

[Philip Wenig <philip.wenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear PMC,

good, please retire Christoph Läubrich.
Just for clarification/further considerations:

* Creating a new release and enabling an API baseline for the next 
version is on our agenda.
* Reasonable change request were ignored by Christoph, see for example [1].
* It's correct, that we once made a mistake by generating getter/setter 
code and not keeping the original copyright header [2]. We learned from 
this case. But it seems that Christoph handles the issue with the 
copyright headers not with the same priority when it comes to his own 
changes. Have a look at two examples [3]. If you need more cases, please 
let me know.
* A release is overdue, that's correct. Migrating from Java 8 to 11 was 
a main issue for the last time, which has been recently addressed and 
solved.
* Lablicate has not sued Christoph for using ChemClipse source code. He 
also knows it. This is again a smoke candle.

As Christoph is actively working on his proprietary solution, based on 
ChemClipse, I would be really interested to know if he has created a 
private fork of the Eclipse ChemClipse and SWTChart projects.


Best,
Philip

[1] https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/issues/405
[2] https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/issues/407
[3] Copyright Header Issues:

[a] vs. [b]
EvenOddValidator vs. InputValidator
SettingsClassParser vs. SettingsSupport

[c] vs. [d]
org.eclipse.chemclipse.chromatogram.xxd.peak.detector.supplier.firstderivative.core.BasePeakDetector

[a] 
https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/commit/14819f8d921c22d011a177be9c67fdd700fa312d
[b] 
https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/commit/d56ff87a696f36c6964f6d0cf0d409869926437a
[c] 
https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/commit/feb2f1ba9fbf5db3fe422e3ae3cc1bf73c3c76c2
[d] 
https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/commit/de2cc42705286ac7a8b3b4d03d411cf7aeb0d764

On 09.06.22 09:31, Christoph Läubrich wrote:
> Hi PMC/EMO,
>
> I'm fine with retirement, as from my experiences ChemClipse is 
> effectively a  project only managed for the whole purpose of Lablicate 
> GmbH, so you are either working for Lablicate GmbH or it is impossible 
> to make substantial contributions:
>
> - issues are created and instantly fixed by a commit so no way to 
> really participate here, as there is no API baseline constantly break 
> existing code without any notice
> - on the other hand code contributed by me are just reverted/removed 
> or even reclaimed as own code, my request to just working on distinct 
> branches was rejected
> - No releases for years or even a downloads of ChemClipse (beside 
> building from source), so there is no real way for any community 
> wanting to actually use it as is, as a real open-source solution 
> without any additional  terms
> - Lablicate GmbH even tried to sue me on court for offering solutions 
> based on ChemClipse
>
> So for me ChemClipse is just a dead-end for any open-source minded 
> contributor and I thus won't mind leaving it.
>
> Anyways it was fun to work on ChemClipse and I wish all the best to 
> current and future contributors and of course the whole science 
> community.
>
> Have a good day,
>  Christoph
>
>
> Am 09.06.22 um 06:54 schrieb Philip Wenig:
> > Dear PMC,
> >
> > I would like to retire Christoph Läubrich as a project lead / 
> > committer of ChemClipse:
> > https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse
> >
> > Christoph has not taken any actions since April 15th 2020 on ChemClipse:
> > https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/commits?author=laeubi
> >
> > My relation to Christoph is problematic. He worked two years for my 
> > company Lablicate GmbH. Eventually, in February 2020 he had to go due 
> > to several reasons. I kept him in the position of a project lead / 
> > committer for 2 years now to see if he will keep on supporting the 
> > project, despite of our conflict. As it turned out, he offers a 
> > similar software, based on ChemClipse, since 2020:
> >
> > https://labratry.de/en
> >
> > As he didn't do any commits on ChemClipse but seems to be very active 
> > on his own project, I assume that he either just consumes the 
> > ChemClipse bundles as is or has deeply forked the source code of 
> > ChemClipse.
> >
> > That's the reason why I'd like to retire him as a project lead / 
> > committer.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Philip
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