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[tools-pmc] Fw: Visual Editor - proposal for Steve Robenalt to become a committer
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Hi Jeff,
>As a point of interest, has Steve
a committer anywhere else in Eclipse and/or has be been contributing reasonable
patches?
>I realize that we are interested
in additional help on VE but we also have to have confidence in the people
driving the code.
The answer to both questions is no. Steve is not
a committer anywhere else and he hasn't been contributing patches.
However he has managed to step the VE codebase up to 3.3
all on his own. I've helped him via a few e-mails but he has done most
of the work under his own steam and brain power, and from his e-mails and
the questions he's asking I am extremely impressed with both his ability
and his enthusiasm. I am extremely keen to get to see his code Rich
Kulp and myself will review the port. Steve is keen to stay the course
as well and help to drive the project forward and become more involved.
The reason I'm not going through the
patches route is that VE is just frozen in time right now and it needs
some kind of blow torch to defrost it, and I'd rather get Steve on board
while he's still keen on the idea rather than bury him in red tape about
getting approved that just turns him away. The worst case is that
he commits a bunch of bad code that Rich and I decide is no good, in which
case we can always roll back to before this and deal with it, so there
is no real danger. Given a choice of being possibly proved a bad judge
of character, or appearing unwelcoming of his efforts and losing Steve's
3.3 port, I'd rather be the former.
Just to reassure you that I'm not just
giving a badge to anyone who wishes to be a committer, there is another
fellow in China who I met at EclipseCon who has built a XML serialization
version of VE that doesn't persist in Java. His code looks solid
and I'm, again, very impressed with his efforts, and he too wishes become
more involved as a comitter. For him I'm taking a different track
and working together to co-author a tutorial and example on the ve.examples
plugin (i.e. not the core VE runtime) that showcases XML persistence and
documents the extension APIs that are involved. This effort being
done via patches and, when I'm more confident with his work and the rest
of the VE team feel comfortable, I expect him to become a committer sometime
soon going through a more traditional election process.
Steve is an exception though, and his
joining VE at this time is the best thing that's happened for the project
in a long time.
Best regards,
Joe
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