Revision as of 08:17, 13 August 2012

Container Projects to be Collapsed

The following Modeling projects will be collapsed, moving their subprojects up one level to be direct children of the Modeling project.

   EMF
   EMFT
   GMP
   GMT
   MDT
   M2M
   M2T
   TMF

Eclipse Modeling Framework

The EMF container project will be eliminated.

Activities:

• Landing page to be reused for EMF Core.
• Review how bugzilla products and components can be reorganized.
• Retire committers, i.e., Ed Merks.

Eclipse Modeling Framework Technology

The EMFT container project will be eliminated.

Activities:

• Landing page to be redirected.
• Review how bugzilla products and components can be reorganized.
• Archive emft-dev mailing list.
• Archive emft newsgroup.
• Retire committers, i.e., Ed Merks.

Graphical Modeling Project

The GMP container project will be eliminated.

Activities:

• Landing page to be eliminated (or redirected).
• Review how bugzilla products and components can be reorganized; probably not needed because Graphiti and GMF have separate bugzilla infrastructure.
• Archive gmp-dev mailing list.
• Retire committers, i.e., Anthony Hunter.

Modeling Development Tools

The MDT container project will be eliminated.

Activities:

• Landing page to be eliminated (or redirected).
• Review how bugzilla products and components can be reorganized; probably not needed because Graphiti and GMF have separate bugzilla infrastructure.
• Archive gmp-dev mailing list.
• Retire committers, i.e., Anthony Hunter.

Generative Modeling Tools

The GMT container project will be eliminated.

Activities:

• GMT landing page will be eliminated by.
• Archive the contents of GMT's CVS repository.
• Delete bugzilla GMT components; consider what happens to the few subprojects that aren't terminated.
• Retire committers, i.e., Dimitrios Kolovos, Daniel Varro, Dennis Wagelaar, Ed Willink, Frederic Jouault, G*ran K. Olsen, Hugo Bruneliere, Jean Bezivin, Jon Oldevik, Jules White, Louis Rose, and Marcos Didonet Del Fabro.

Projects to be Terminated

The following Modeling projects will be terminated and archived.

Atlan Megamodel Management

AM3 has been subsumed by MoDisco. The project is a subproject of the gmt project.

Activities:

• GMT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of AM3's SVNrepository.
• Delete bugzilla GMT/AM3* components.
• Retire committers; there don't appear to be any.

EMF4Net

EMF4Net provide a EMF core runtime for the .Net platform and a C# code generation facility. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. The project has been inactive for years.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of EMF4Net's CVS repository
• Eliminate bugzilla EMFT/EMF4Net component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Reinhold Bihler.

Generic Eclipse Modeling System

GEMS bridges the gap between the communities experienced with visual metamodeling tools, such as the Generic Modeling Environment (GME), and those built around the Eclipse modeling technologies, such as the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF). The project is a subproject of the gmt project.

Activities:

• GMT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of GEMS's CVS repository.
• Delete bugzilla GMT/GEMS component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Jules White.

Information Management Metamodel

Information Management Metamodel provide metamodel/profile implementations based on the forthcoming Information Management Metamodel (IMM) OMG specification. The project is a subproject of the MDT project. The project has never been active.

Activities:

• MDT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of IMM's CVS repository including IMM's releng. In fact, the repos appear to be effectively empty, so likely they should just be deleted.
• Delete bugzilla MDT/IMM component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Kenn Hussey.

JCR Management

JCR Management combines the strength of the Eclipse modeling projects with the scalability, features and exchangeability of the JCR repositories. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. The project has been inactive for years.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of JCR Management's CVS repository
• Eliminate bugzilla EMFT/JCR Management component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Sandro Boehme.

Metamodel Specification Tools

MST pprovide tooling for the development of MOF-compliant metamodels and specifications based on them. The project is a subproject of the MDT project. The project has never been active.

Activities:

• MDT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of MST's CVS repository including MST's releng. In fact, the repos appear to be effectively empty, so likely they should just be deleted.
• Delete bugzilla MDT/MST component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Kenn Hussey.

Mint

Mint provides improved out-of-the-box Java developer experience when writing EMF-based software. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. Active development ceased in June 2010.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of Mint's CVS repository
• Delete bugzilla EMFT/Mint component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Peter Nehrer.

Model Execution Framework

MXF provides a framework for development, execution and debugging of models with operational semantics. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. The project has been inactive for many years.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of MXF's CVS repository
• There appear to be no bugzilla components.
• Retire committers, i.e., Hajo Eichler, Markus Scheidgen, and Michael Soden.

Modeling Team Framework

MTF provides the base for software confguration management on modeling projects realized on Eclipse Team API. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. The project has been inactive for years.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of MTF's CVS repository
• There appear to be no bugzilla components.
• Retire committers, i.e., Steffen Stundzig.

MOFScript

MOFScript is a tool for model to text transformation. The project is a subproject of the gmt project.

Activities:

• GMT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of MOFScript's SVN repository.
• Delete bugzilla GMT/MOFScript component.
• Retire committers, i.e., G*ran K. Olsen and Jon Oldevik.

Open Model CourseWare

OMCW provides provide a set of teaching and learning artifacts to the modeling community. The project is a subproject of the gmt project. Active development ceased in June 2010.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of OMCW's SVN repository.
• Delete bugzilla GMT/OMCW component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Hugo Bruneliere and Jean Bezivin.

PMF

PMF provides support for building data presentation applications. The project is a subproject of the Modeling project. Active development and newsgroup traffic has been minimal since inception.

Activities:

• Modeling landing page has no references to it.
• Archive the contents of PMF's CVS repository
• Delete bugzilla product and components PMF/*
• Retire committers, i.e., Jim Van Dam, Olivier Moises, Thomas Guiu, and Yves YANG.

SBVR

SVBR provides a metamodel implementation and sample tools based on the adopted Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) OMG specification. The project is a subproject of the MDT project. The project never produced any results.

Activities:

• Update the MDT landing page.
• As far as I can tell, there's never been anything placed in a repository, but there's no portal metadata for this project so I can't be sure.
• Delete bugzilla MDT/SBVR component.
• Retire committers, i.e., David Carlson.

SDO

SDO is an implementation of the Service Data Objects specification. The project was a component of the EMF project. Support for it was terminated as the 2.5 release of EMF. At that time, it was taken over by the Apache Tuscany project.

Activities:

• Update the EMF landing page.
• Archive the contents of SDO's CVS repository
• Delete bugzilla EMF/SDO component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Ed Merks.

Servus

Servus allow developers to design and evolve Web Services (WS) using Ecore based models, by providing mappings between those models and Web Services artifacts, such as WSDL descriptions, WS client stubs and WS server skeletons. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. The project has been inactive for many years.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of Servus' CVS repository
• Delete bugzilla EMFT/Temporality component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Thiago Tonelli Bartolomei.

Search

Search provides the fundamental infrastructure and components for search queries on EMF based models. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. The project has been inactive for many years.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of Search's CVS repository
• Delete bugzilla EMFT/Search component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Jacques Lescot, Lucas Bigeardel, Stephan Eberle, and Tristan Faure.

TCS

TCS enables the specification of textual concrete syntaxes for Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) by attaching syntactic information to metamodels. The project is a subproject of the to-be-terminated TMF project.

Activities:

• TCS isn't mentioned on the TMF landing page.
• Archive the contents of the repository that I've been unable to locate because there is no metadata for this project.
• Delete bugzilla GMT/TCS component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Frederic Jouault.

Temporality

Temporality is a feature providing automatic versioning of model instances. The project is a subproject of the EMFT project. The project has been inactive for many years.

Activities:

• EMFT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects.
• Archive the contents of Temporality's CVS repository
• Delete bugzilla EMFT/Temporality component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Jean-Claude Cote.

UML2 Tools

UML2 Tools is a set of GMF-based editors for viewing and editing UML models. The project is a subproject of the to-be-terminated MDT project. It's contents will be migrated as samples for the GMF project.

Activities:

• MDT landing page is being eliminated.
• Archive the contents of the UML2 Tools' CVS repository.
• Delete bugzilla MDT/UML2Tools component.
• Retire committers, i.e., Christian Waniek, Michael Golubev, and Tatiana Fesenko.