Modeling/project termination review 2012

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.

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.

Generative Modeling Tools

GMT is a container project of the Modeling project.

Activities:

• GMT landing page is being eliminated by the termination of the modeling container projects; update the modeling landing project.
• Archive the contents of GMT's CVS repository.
• Delete bugzilla GMT components.
• 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.