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BPEL Restructuring
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Purpose
After a discussion with the SOA PMC it was decided that it would in the community's best interests to have the BPEL Designer project move to the SOA top-level project. This will promote the visibility of the project to a community that is more directly involved in the definition and use of business process design tools, thereby attracting developers with a vested interest in improving and maintaining the BPEL Designer code base.
Code
As part of the code restructuring we propose moving to a GIT repository. If possible, we would like to maintain the existing commit history in the new repository.
A new unix group, soa.bpel, will be created for the project. All existing committers will become part of this group.
All code in the existing CVS repository at /cvsroot/technology/bpel (technology.bpel group) will be moved to a new GIT repository at /gitroot/bpel (new soa.bpel group). The project directory structure will remain the same.
Website
The location of the existing BPEL project website will not physically change, it will remain at /cvsroot/org.eclipse/www/bpel but access rights should be changed to read/write for the new soa.bpel group.
Download Site
The BPEL Designer update site will move from http://download.eclipse.org/technology/bpel/update-site/ to http://download.eclipse.org/bpel/updates/
Access rights should be changed to read/write for the soa.bpel group.
Bugzilla
The entire bugzilla history will be moved from the "Technology" Classification to "SOA". Product, Component, Version and Target will all remain as-is.
Mailing Lists and Forums
The current newsgroup, bpel-dev@eclipse.org and the BPEL Forum http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=43 will remain as-is.
The VCS commit notification mailing list bpel-commits@eclipse.org will need to be hooked in to the new GIT repository.
Committers
Project Plan and Restructuring Schedule
The current project plan can be found here. The goal is to complete the code move by end of July, 2011 and produce a 1.0 release by end of August, 2011.
The Restructuring Review has been tentatively scheduled for July 7 to July 13, 2011.
A copy of the Media:IP Log can be found here.