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Re: [technology-pmc] Nexus Project or perhaps hosting micro-projects directly under Tools Project...
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Hi Konstantin
This sounds a lot like the SOC project. If we go through with this
project, I'd consider shutting down SOC to use Nexus instead.
Having said that, I'm not sure what you're hoping to achieve. Are there
specific pains you're hoping to address with this? (can you list them?)
Is there some deluge of new projects that we're turning away?
One thing that I'm wrestling with with regard to the Examples and SOC
projects is the relatively short-term nature that's expected of
Technology projects. It sounds like Nexus is yet another project that
would be in perpetual incubation with a
difficult-to-describe-let-alone-capture project plan.
Wayne
Konstantin Komissarchik wrote:
Technology PMC,
I am in the process of resuming work on Nexus Project proposal and I would like
to seek your input.
The problem I am trying to solve is how to make Eclipse Foundation friendlier to
very small projects. These “micro-projects” have two defining attributes: (1)
their scope is rather small (most will likely only support a few committers and
in a lot of cases as few as one) and (2) their scope is general enough to not
make a good fit in an existing project. These projects can be broken up into two
broad types: (1) frameworks that can be used by other Eclipse projects or the
broader ecosystem and (2) end-user functionality (recent examples: image viewer
and export editor contents as HTML).
The idea is to create a new project (Nexus) under the Technology Project to
serve as an organizational point for managing these micro-projects. The Nexus
project lead and committers would be responsible for:
1. Maintaining project website with information about how to go about creating a
micro-project.
2. Promoting the idea that it’s now easier to create small projects (both
internally and externally).
3. Serving as first-review filter for incoming project proposals. One important
function would be identifying proposals whose scope intersects too much with an
existing project.
4. Possibly managing org.eclipse.nexus.* namespace under which all Nexus
sub-projects would belong (or we could let micro-projects use top-level
namespace if everyone was comfortable with that).
5. Monitoring health of existing micro-projects and providing regular updates to
Technology PMC.
6. Any necessary infrastructure (mostly build and distribution). The goal is to
free sub-projects from having to handle this on their own. It’s likely that most
of the needs will be addressed by the new build service currently being
developed at Foundation’s level, in which case this is a catch-all for any
remaining infrastructure work.
Some have suggested that we don’t really need a separate project for this
function and that we could ask Technology PMC to accept and manage such projects
directly. I tend to think that this will not scale effectively if we are
successful in attracting large number of micro-projects, but I’d like to know
where Technology PMC members stand on this.
Thoughts? Comments?
PS: There is an out-of-date wiki page (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nexus_Project)
that I’ve used in the past to work on this project proposal. It doesn’t reflect
two important changes at the Foundation since the wiki was lasted updated: (1)
it is now possible to create arbitrary levels of project nesting, so
micro-projects can be actual projects rather than components, and (2) there is
an effort under way to provide a ready-to-use build system directly from the
Foundation.
- Konstantin
Oracle <http://www.oracle.com>
Konstantin Komissarchik | Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Phone: +1 425 201 1795 | Mobile: +1 206 898 0611
Oracle Eclipse Tooling
411 108th Ave NE, Suite 2100 | Bellevue, WA 98004
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