Re: [udig-devel] uDig at location meeting

[Frank Gasdorf <fgdrf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Jody is for sure the candidate that I would vote. But does he know?
> Jody usually talks about this in mailinglist :)

I guess he knows, but we should add him to cc ;)

> Sure everybody can join. I am not afraid of the fact that too many
> people would help. It is the other way round :)
> So if such a process is started, I think there should be a minimum
> number of developers that donate time to that process. Else I am just
> wondering who would do the work.
>
> This thought comes from the fact that when uDig needs to be released
> and tested, very very few people are around. Well, the move towards
> eclipse looks way bigger to me than that, and without some
> coordination I am just wondering how that should work?

Absolutely agree, the community is pretty small and I my feeling is,
that Jesse as a core developer of uDig has pretty much to do in other
projects. but nevertheless the goal should be:
* participate in the half year release process (eclipse release train)
and plan the upcoming tasks and issues for the next release.
* identify patch releases between the major (eclipse upgrade) releases
(e.g. helios -> indigo -> juno)
* eventually create patch releases for older already released eclipse
versions (e.g. galileo, helios)
Hopefully with such a step toward eclipse we get much more Eclipse
core developers into the Mapping world and that they can help us on
the eclipse upgrade process.

BTW: I found an project (presented at the local eclipse demo camp in
Hamburg) that has gone throw the eclipse incubator process [1] (sorry
its a German blog, I try to find an English)

@Jody : In my remembrance you already created a wiki page for this
propose or is it playing a trick on me?

Frank

[1] http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/artikel/The-Making-of-an-Eclipse-Project-4232.html