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Donating a mature project to Eclipse
- 1. Donating a Mature Project to Eclipse Glyn Normington Copyright VMware Inc. 2011. Licensed under the Eclipse Public License Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 2. Agenda • Code • Intellectual property • Infrastructure • Community Tuesday, 22 March 2011
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- 4. Origins • Spring Engine • SpringSource Application Platform • SpringSource dm Server • Eclipse Virgo Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 5. Origins • Spring Engine • SpringSource Application Platform • SpringSource dm Server • Eclipse Virgo Tuesday, 22 March 2011
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- 7. Was dm ServerMature? • Users in production on v1 & v2 • Principled design • Clean code • Extensive test suite (with CI) • Based on, and influencing, standards Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 8. Why donate it? • Remove adoption inhibitors • GPL • Single vendor • Collaborate on usability • Build • Application development tooling Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 9. Why Eclipse.org? • Permissive license • Governance & IP process • Built on Equinox & Eclipse • EclipseRT needed a runtime Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 10. End of Interlude. Back to the Code Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 11. Moving the Project 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 1.0 2.0 2.1 (Virgo) 3.0 ß/milestone GA SR EOL Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 12. Version Control • git • 22 repositories • GPL history was pruned • Back link for archaeology • External collaboration • github Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 13. Intellectual Property Tuesday, 22March 2011
- 14. Licensing • SpringSource dm Server • Eclipse Virgo • GPL + • EPL commercial • OSGi Web • Gemini Web Container • Apache • EPL + Apache Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 15. Eclipse IP Process • Scrutiny • Source code • License • Pedigree • Contribution & dependencies Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 16. IP Process Costs • Raised 200 CQs • Deleted 2 dependencies • Tweaked 3rd party licensing Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 17. IP Process Benefits • Assured license/pedigree • Recorded dependencies • Improved licensing, e.g. • JWebUnit LGPL • mime.types file in Spring Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 18. IP Process Improvements • Clarify: • Downstream distribution • “Works with” dependencies • Policy for build/test dependencies • Automate release checks (WIP) Tuesday, 22 March 2011
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- 20. Build/Test Infrastructure • Moved CI to hudson.eclipse.org • Tool issues • False positives • Sharing vs stability • Virtualisation? Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 21. Search Infrastructure • Private OpenGrok • Too much code to remember • 22 git repos • No search at eclipse.org • Public OpenGrok http://virgo-opengrok.springsource.org/ Tuesday, 22 March 2011
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- 23. Moving the Community • Generally willing • Incompatibilities • Package names • Dropped function • Migration to Virgo 2.1 • Minimised • Migration notes Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 24. Effect on Committers • JIRA replaced by bugzilla + Acunote • Distributed sprint planning • Concurrent sprints Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 25. Summary Was it worth it? Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 26. Benefits of Donating ✓Increase adoption ✓ Permissive license ✓Multi-vendor • Improve usability • Build ✓ Application development tooling Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 27. Benefits of Eclipse.org ✓ Code ✓ Intellectual property • Infrastructure ✓ Community Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 28. And Finally... Tuesday, 22March 2011
- 29. Thanks to... • Project histories - wikipedia • HP Garage - http://www.hp.com • Road signs - Alexander Baxevanis • OOXML demo - Martin Bekkelund • Rugby scrum - Clumsy Jim Tuesday, 22 March 2011
- 30. Related Sessions • Building web apps with EclipseRT • Yesterday, but come to the Virgo BoF • Snaps, modular & dynamic web apps with Virgo • Tomorrow 10:40-11:00, Ballroom D • Virgo and RT playing together • Tomorrow 11:10-11:30, Ballroom BC • Virgo BoF • Shooting for tomorrow 7:30-8:30pm • Hands on with Gemini & Virgo • Thursday 10:30-12:30, Ballroom D Tuesday, 22 March 2011