| Re: [technology-pmc] Nexus project |
Technology PMC members,I don't agree with that assessment. The only thing I can think of that Eclipse projects have as overhead that is in addition to the usual overhead of running any project is the IP process and even there the IP team has been working hard to make that as low overhead as possible. Things like builds and plans - every successful project, no matter how large or small, needs to do those things so they are not "overhead of being an *Eclipse* project" but rather "overhead of being a software development project". Don't get me wrong, I'm all for (and am working on) reducing the overhead of being a software project (such as through the common build infrastructure), but I just don't agree that there is a "a lot of overhead" to being an Eclipse project. Without something like Nexus, the proposed micro projects would be required to find a more permanent home as they reach a state of maturity.Wouldn't it just make sense that projects that are successful and adopted by the community to naturally have an obvious home? So I don't see this as a problem. Perhaps the Nexus proposal is more about requesting a better explanation of what it means to be a project and how to run a project and so on rather than created yet another mechanism... ? - Bjorn --
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