Re: [tycho-dev] Tycho Target Editor

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/04/2014 05:10 PM, Oberlies, Tobias wrote:

Hi Mickael,

 

The CQ for the “Tycho Target Editor” (within SAP, it was known as the LDI Target Editor) are just the first two steps of “open-sourcing” the target editor enhancements. With the CQ,

·       The sources are made public, so that people can have a look, and

·       The sources are moved to Eclipse, so that people can contribute.

 

There is plenty of work to do afterwards:

·       The community needs to decide which features are potentially interesting. There is documentation included with the contribution, so details will come once the CQ is through. In the meanwhile, you can find a summary here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=401719#c0

·       Settings which are currently hard-coded (like the URL of the Nexus instance) need to be made configurable.

·       A discussion with the PDE project needs to be started if some or all of the functionality should be moved to the PDE project. This would imply a major refactoring of the code because the LDI Target Editor duplicated large parts of the PDE’s model in order to be able to extend it.

Ok, thanks for the details. IMO, as soon as the CQ is approved, it would be nice to move code to PDE Incubator is possible, as it's probably where potential contributors will look first, and it will keep the Tycho project a project dedicated to what Tycho is right now (Maven extensions).
Duplicating concerns in projects (a target editor in PDE and Tycho) is IMO not very good for both community and projects.

Do you somehow agree with that? Is this something that sounds fair to you?

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