Latest revision as of 16:44, 19 July 2012

Nebula Restructure Plan

This page is to track the Nebula Restructure. Please add yourself to the Watch list if you want to stay in sync with the changes made to this page.

Please discuss this page on the nebula-dev mailing list.

Restructure based on initial docuware by Tom Schindl.

media:Nebula-Restructure.pdf

Move to Git

Done!

We will be moving to git. We are currently investigating the steps that are needed to get there. Please expect the cvs repository to become read only before the end of the year and probably sooner.

All activities in the transition will be communicated to the mailing list.

Create repositories
- Nebula Release
- Nebula Incubation
- Nebula NatTable
Update References
- Website
- Wiki
- Documentation

The current plan is to ask the webmaster to checkin the current CVS into the Release and Incubation repository, including the history, and then remove the projects that do not belong there.

Rename Projects

Done!

All projects will be renamed to the nebula widget standard project renaming as outlined in this page. The concrete in which these standards are poured is still wet so we can still make changes. Also, Nebula should move out of the swt namespace.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=364914

Release Schedule

Nebula Proper must follow a release schedule.

VCS Restructure

Done1

We will be restructuring the repository. Every widget will get its own little place in the repository like this:

bundles
  widget
     o.e.n.widgets.widget
     o.e.n.widgets.widget.feature
     o.e.n.widgets.widget.tests
     o.e.n.widgets.widget.tests.feature  <-- really needed?
     o.e.n.widgets.widget.example
     o.e.n.widgets.widget.snippets

In addition there will be some other structures:

releng

examples

attics

Build

Done!

move to download
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JAR_Signing
Rename build jobs to remove the "maven" and "nightly" terms

Clean Committer list

In Progress Nebula/restructure/committers

There are currenly 24 committers to Nebula. This sounds good but most committers are inactive. We need to find out who is currently committing for Nebula and move all inactive committers from active committer state to the honourable list of committers alumni.

The current list of committers:

Assign/Deprecate Widgets

We need to find out which widgets are no longer supported and assign new owners. If no new owner can be found for the widget have to deprecate it or keep it in incubation.

Nebula Project Restructuring Proposal

This document describes a proposed restructuring of the Eclipse Nebula project. We solicit additional participation and input from the Eclipse community. Please send all feedback and requests for participation, by April 1st, to the nebula-dev mailing list or indicate interest in participation by submitting a Bugzilla report.

Background

Since its initial inception in 2006, Nebula has welcomed many new supplementary widgets. Many of these widgets are used in production environments around the globe.

Nebula is a place where different Eclipse-Projects and Independent developers collaborate on building Custom SWT widgets and reuseable UI-Components useable in UI-Applications built using SWT and JFace.

The Nebula project was created to provide an incubator for the development of current and future rich widgets with the intent to move them to SWT after having been matured. None of the widgets produced by the Nebula Project--though stable and production ready--have ever been moved to SWT.

Actions

The following actions have been executed:

Creating Example Plug-ins

Every widget that is contributed is required to contribute to the examples plugin. The examples plugin contains an extension point that can be used for contribution.

Currently the examples plugin contains many internal references. If we want to include the examples plugin to the build we need to create an example plugin for every widget and remove the references to this plugin from the examples plugin. See the oscilloscope.examples plugin for a reference.

Actions:

Create an examples plugin for the widget
- Move the widget related code to that new plugin
- Add dependencies on o.e.ui and o.e.core.runtime
- Add a dependency to o.e.nebula.examples
- Create an extension to examples that points to the copied class
In the examples plugin
- Remove the reference to the widget
- Remove the example java code
- Remove the extension
Commit the new plugin and the changed example to CVS

Use bug 364900 for commit comment

This has been finished. However, some projects miss the examples view.

Objective

The objective of the restructuring is that Nebula releases those supplementary components in a 1.0 release to foster adoption in commercial and opensource projects.

In the last few month many external parties asked for a stable release of Nebula-Components so that they can be used for downstream adoption but because of the different maturity level of the widgets found in Nebula and because of the permanent incubation status of the project we are not able to provide such a release.

The project as it is now will be split into two separate projects:

Project	Description	Type
Nebula	Project with mature widgets working towards a 1.0 release	Eclipse Project
Nebula Incubator	Perpetum Incubator with widgets not ready for prime time	Eclipse Incubator Project

Nebula

Mature widgets found in Nebula are production ready, IP clean and have at least one active committer. The main target of this project is to maintain and release 1.0 and maintenance releases.

Scope

The main focus of the Nebula project is to provide none native UI-Controls using widget composition or drawing them using the SWT-GC. Being none native Nebula controls are not suffering the same Problem SWT-Widgets are facing and can so provide special features not available in native widgets.

Proposed widgets

Widget	Wdiget Committer	Description
PaperClips	Matt Hall	Printing Library
Grid	Tom Schindl	An custom table/tree widget which provides Excel like features and a JFaceViewer integration
PShelf	Tom Schindl	The PShelf widget is a composite widget that is similar to a tab folder. It contains items which can be selected to show their client areas.
PGroup	Tom Schindl	The PGroup widget is a expandable/collapsible composite widget with attractive styling and an extensible design.
Gallery	Nicolas Richeton	This SWT widget displays images or items in a grid-like presentation. Gallery is very useful to display images in a photo viewer or files in an explorer-like view.
CompositeTable	Elias Volanakis	CompositeTable is a custom SWT grid control using native widgets
XViewer	Donald Dunne	The purpose of the XViewer is to give the application developer a more advanced and dynamic TreeViewer that has the filtering and sorting
CalendarCombo	Emil Crumhorm / Donald Dunne	The Calendar Combo Widget is a combo box widget that opens a calendar when dropped down.
Oscilloscope	Wim Jongman	A widget showing an Oscilloscope
CDateTime	Wim Jongman	A Date and Time selector widget.
CWT	Wim Jongman/Nicolas Richeton	Common Widget Toolkit, aka V (including Nebula animation)
TableCombo	Marty Jones	A DropDown-Widget which uses a Table to display the items
STW	Ahmed Mahran	A component which allows to implement transitions
Gantt	Emil Crumhorn	A comprehensive implementation of a Gantt chart.

Committers

Committer
Ahmed Mahran
Angelo ZERR
Donald Dunne
Emil Crumhorn
Elias Volanakis
Matthew Hall
Mickaël Istria
Marty Jones
Peter Centgraf
Nicolas Richeton
Thomas Schindl (Lead)
Wim Jongman (Lead)

Nebula-Incubator

The purpose of the perpetum incubator is to stage component contributions until they are ready to move to Nebula.

Scope

The incubator is used as staging area for Nebula because it is an incubator it will be easy for the community to join and develop widgets until stable enough so that they can be moved to the Nebula-Project to get released with it.

Proposed widgets (moved from current Nebula-Project)

Widget	Wdiget Committer	Description
BidiLayout	Tom Schindl	The PGroup widget is a expandable/collapsible composite widget with attractive styling and an extensible design.
Radio Group	Matt Hall	Group of Radio Buttons
Collapsible Buttons	Emil Crumhorn	Widget modeled after the bottom left buttons widget in Microsoft Outlook
Date Chooser	none	Presents the monthly view of a calendar for date picking.
Formatted Text	none	A decorator component adding input and display mask capabilities on a Text widget.
Nebula Toolbar	none	Windows Toolbar
TreeMapper	Mickael Istria	Mapping between Tree's
GeoMap	Stepan Rutz/Hallvard Traetteberg	A SWT Tile Map browser for openstreetview and other servers
Picture Control	Angelo Zerr	A control managing (download and display) a picture. See Picture Control for more information.
Pagination Control	Angelo Zerr	A control managing paginated list and display pagination navigation bar. See Pagination Control for more information.
CTree	none	??

Committers

Committer
Ahmed Mahran
Angelo ZERR
Donald Dunne
Dave Orme
Emil Crumhorn
Elias Volanakis
Matthew Hall
Mickaël Istria
Marty Jones
Peter Centgraf
Nicolas Richeton
Stepan Rutz
Hallvard Traetteberg
Thomas Schindl (Lead)
Wim Jongman (Lead)

NatTable

NatTable is a powerful and flexible SWT table/grid widget that is built to handle very large data sets, real-time updates, dynamic styling, and more.

Project Proposal

Notice: this Wiki will be going read only early in 2024 and edits will no longer be possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.

Difference between revisions of "Nebula/restructure"

Latest revision as of 16:44, 19 July 2012

Contents

Nebula Restructure Plan

Move to Git

Rename Projects

Release Schedule

VCS Restructure

Build

Clean Committer list

Assign/Deprecate Widgets

Nebula Project Restructuring Proposal

Background

Actions

Creating Example Plug-ins

Objective

Nebula

Scope

Proposed widgets

Committers

Nebula-Incubator

Scope

Proposed widgets (moved from current Nebula-Project)

Committers

NatTable

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 [[media:Nebula-Restructure.pdf]]
-==Move to Git==
+==Move to Git ==
+ Done!
 [[image:egit.png|right]]
 We will be moving to git. We are currently investigating the steps that are needed to get there. Please expect the cvs repository to become read only before the end of the year and probably sooner.
@@ Line 26: / Line 27: @@
 ==Rename Projects==
-All projects will be renamed to the nebula widget standard project renaming as [[Nebula/Standards|outlined in this page]]. The concrete in which these standards are poured is still wet so we can still make changes. Also, Nebula should move out of the swt namespace.
+ Done!
+All projects will be renamed to the nebula widget standard project renaming as [[Nebula/New_Contributions#Organize_your_Code|outlined in this page]]. The concrete in which these standards are poured is still wet so we can still make changes. Also, Nebula should move out of the swt namespace.
 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=364914
@@ Line 34: / Line 36: @@
 ==VCS Restructure==
+ Done1
 We will be restructuring the repository. Every widget will get its own little place in the repository like this:
@@ Line 52: / Line 55: @@
   attics
-==Creating Example Projects==
-Every widget that is contributed is required to contribute to the examples plugin. The examples plugin contains an extension point that can be used for contribution.
-Currently the examples plugin contains many internal references. If we want to include the examples plugin to the build we need to create an example plugin for every widget and remove the references to this plugin from the examples plugin. See the oscilloscope.examples plugin for a reference.
-Actions:
-* Create an examples plugin for the widget
-** Move the widget related code to that new plugin
-** Add dependencies on o.e.ui and o.e.core.runtime
-** Add a dependency to o.e.nebula.examples
-** Create an extension to examples that points to the copied class
-* In the examples plugin
-** Remove the reference to the widget
-** Remove the example java code
-** Remove the extension
-* Commit the new plugin and the changed example to CVS
-Use bug [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=364900 364900 for commit comment]
-This has been finished. However, some projects miss the examples view.
 ==Build==
+ Done!
 * move to download
 * http://wiki.eclipse.org/JAR_Signing
@@ Line 82: / Line 63: @@
 ==Clean Committer list==
+ In Progress [[Nebula/restructure/committers]]
 There are currenly 24 committers to Nebula. This sounds good but most committers are inactive. We need to find out who is currently committing for Nebula and move all inactive committers from active committer state to the [http://eclipse.org/projects/committers-alumni.php|honorable honourable list of committers alumni.]
 The current [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=technology.nebula  list of committers]:
-*Andrew Finkbeiner
-*Ahmed Mahran
-*Chris Gross
-*Donald Dunne
-*Dave Orme
-*Emil Crumhorn
-*Elias Volanakis
-*Eric Wuillai
-*Felipe Heidrich
-*Grant Gayed
-*Ira Fishbein
-*Jeremy Dowdall
-*Jeff Phillips
-*Lukasz Milewski
-*Matthew Hall
-*Mickaël Istria
-*Marty Jones
-*Peter Centgraf
-*Pavel Petrochenko
-*Nicolas RICHETON
-*Steve Northover
-*Thomas Schindl
-*Veronika Irvine
-*Wim Jongman
 ==Assign/Deprecate Widgets==
@@ Line 121: / Line 78: @@
 ===Background===
-Since its initials conception in 2006, Nebula has welcomed many new supplementary widgets. Many of these widgets are used in production environments around the globe.
+Since its initial inception in 2006, Nebula has welcomed many new supplementary widgets. Many of these widgets are used in production environments around the globe.
-Nebula is a place where different Eclipse-Projects and Independent developers collaborate on building Custom SWT widgets and reuseable UI-Components useable in UI-Applications built using SWT and JFace
+Nebula is a place where different Eclipse-Projects and Independent developers collaborate on building Custom SWT widgets and reuseable UI-Components useable in UI-Applications built using SWT and JFace.
 The Nebula project was created to provide an incubator for the development of
 current and future rich widgets with the intent to move them to SWT after
-having been matured. None of the widgets produced by the Nebula Project - though stable and production
+having been matured. None of the widgets produced by the Nebula Project--though stable and production
-ready - have ever been moved to SWT.
+ready--have ever been moved to SWT.
+===Actions===
+The following actions have been executed:
+===Creating Example Plug-ins===
+Every widget that is contributed is required to contribute to the examples plugin. The examples plugin contains an extension point that can be used for contribution.
+Currently the examples plugin contains many internal references. If we want to include the examples plugin to the build we need to create an example plugin for every widget and remove the references to this plugin from the examples plugin. See the oscilloscope.examples plugin for a reference.
+Actions:
+* Create an examples plugin for the widget
+** Move the widget related code to that new plugin
+** Add dependencies on o.e.ui and o.e.core.runtime
+** Add a dependency to o.e.nebula.examples
+** Create an extension to examples that points to the copied class
+* In the examples plugin
+** Remove the reference to the widget
+** Remove the example java code
+** Remove the extension
+* Commit the new plugin and the changed example to CVS
+Use bug [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=364900 364900 for commit comment]
+This has been finished. However, some projects miss the examples view.
 ===Objective===
 The objective of the restructuring is that Nebula releases those supplementary
@@ Line 163: / Line 143: @@
 |}
-===Nebula===
+==Nebula==
 Mature widgets found in Nebula are production ready, IP clean and have
 at least one active committer. The main target of
@@ Line 181: / Line 161: @@
 ! Wdiget Committer
 ! Description
+|-
+|[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/paperclips/paperclips.php PaperClips]
+|Matt Hall
+|Printing Library
 |-
 |[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/grid/grid.php Grid]
@@ Line 186: / Line 170: @@
 |An custom table/tree widget which provides Excel like features and a JFaceViewer integration
 |-
-|[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/pshelf/pshelf.php Pshelf]
+|[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/pshelf/pshelf.php PShelf]
 |Tom Schindl
 |The PShelf widget is a composite widget that is similar to a tab folder. It contains items which can be selected to show their client areas.
 |-
-|[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/pgroup/pgroup.php Pgroup]
+|[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/pgroup/pgroup.php PGroup]
 |Tom Schindl
 |The PGroup widget is a expandable/collapsible composite widget with attractive styling and an extensible design.
@@ Line 207: / Line 191: @@
 |-
 |[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/calendarcombo/calendarcombo.php CalendarCombo]
-|Donald Dunne
+|Emil Crumhorm / Donald Dunne
 |The Calendar Combo Widget is a combo box widget that opens a calendar when dropped down.
 |-
@@ Line 213: / Line 197: @@
 |Wim Jongman
 |A widget showing an Oscilloscope
+|-
+|[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/cdatetime/cdatetime.php CDateTime]
+|Wim Jongman
+|A Date and Time selector widget.
+|-
+|CWT
+|Wim Jongman/Nicolas Richeton
+|Common Widget Toolkit, aka V (including Nebula animation)
 |-
 |[http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/tablecombo/tablecombo.php TableCombo]
@@ Line 227: / Line 219: @@
 |}
-===Nebula-Incubator===
+====Committers====
+{|{{BMTableStyle}}
+|-{{BMTHStyle}}
+! Committer
+|-
+| Ahmed Mahran
+|-
+| Angelo ZERR
+|-
+| Donald Dunne
+|-
+| Emil Crumhorn
+|-
+| Elias Volanakis
+|-
+| Matthew Hall
+|-
+| Mickaël Istria
+|-
+| Marty Jones
+|-
+| Peter Centgraf
+|-
+| Nicolas Richeton
+|-
+| Thomas Schindl (Lead)
+|-
+| Wim Jongman (Lead)
+|}
+==Nebula-Incubator==
 The purpose of the perpetum incubator is to stage component contributions
 until they are ready to move to Nebula.
@@ Line 243: / Line 266: @@
 ! Wdiget Committer
 ! Description
-|-
-|CDateTime
-|Jeremy Dowdall
-|A Date and Time selector widget.
-|-
-|CWT
-|Nicolas Richeton
-|Nebula animation
 |-
 |BidiLayout
@@ Line 256: / Line 271: @@
 |The PGroup widget is a expandable/collapsible composite widget with attractive styling and an extensible design.
 |-
-|PaperClips
+|Radio Group
-|Tom Schindl
+|Matt Hall
-|The PGroup widget is a expandable/collapsible composite widget with attractive styling and an extensible design.
+|Group of Radio Buttons
 |-
 |Collapsible Buttons
-|Nicolas Richeton
+|Emil Crumhorn
-|This SWT widget displays images or items in a grid-like presentation. Gallery is very useful to display images in a photo viewer or files in an explorer-like view.
+|Widget modeled after the bottom left buttons widget in Microsoft Outlook
 |-
 |Date Chooser
-|Elias Volanakis
+|none
-|CompositeTable is a custom SWT grid control using native widgets
+|Presents the monthly view of a calendar for date picking.
 |-
 |Formatted Text
-|Donald Dunne
+|none
-|The purpose of the XViewer is to give the application developer a more advanced and dynamic TreeViewer that has the filtering and sorting
+|A decorator component adding input and display mask capabilities on a Text widget.
-|-
-|Radio Groupd
-|Donald Dunne
-|The Calendar Combo Widget is a combo box widget that opens a calendar when dropped down.
 |-
 |Nebula Toolbar
-|Wim Jongman
+|none
-|A widget showing an Oscilloscope
+|Windows Toolbar
 |-
-|Colour Tree
+|TreeMapper
-|Emil Crumhorn
+|Mickael Istria
-|A comprehensive implementation of a Gantt chart.
+|Mapping between Tree's
+|-
+|GeoMap
+|Stepan Rutz/Hallvard Traetteberg
+|A SWT Tile Map browser for openstreetview and other servers
+|-
+|Picture Control
+|Angelo Zerr
+|A control managing (download and display) a picture. See [http://angelozerr.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/nebula_picture/ Picture Control] for more information.
+|-
+|Pagination Control
+|Angelo Zerr
+|A control managing paginated list and display pagination navigation bar. See [http://angelozerr.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/nebula_pagination/ Pagination Control] for more information.
+|-
+|CTree
+|none
+|??
+|}
+====Committers====
+{|{{BMTableStyle}}
+|-{{BMTHStyle}}
+! Committer
+|-
+| Ahmed Mahran
+|-
+| Angelo ZERR
+|-
+| Donald Dunne
+|-
+| Dave Orme
+|-
+| Emil Crumhorn
+|-
+| Elias Volanakis
+|-
+| Matthew Hall
+|-
+| Mickaël Istria
+|-
+| Marty Jones
+|-
+| Peter Centgraf
+|-
+| Nicolas Richeton
+|-
+| Stepan Rutz
+|-
+| Hallvard Traetteberg
+|-
+| Thomas Schindl (Lead)
+|-
+| Wim Jongman (Lead)
 |}
-* cwt
+===NatTable===
-* paperclips
+NatTable is a powerful and flexible SWT table/grid widget that is built to handle very large data sets, real-time updates, dynamic styling, and more.
-* bidilayout
-* cdatetime
-* collapsiblebuttons
-* datechooser
-* formattedtext
-* radiogroup
-* nebulatoolbar
-* ctree
-* ganttchart
-Existing committers
+[http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.nebula.nattable/ Project Proposal]
-* Tom Schindl – project lead
-* Matt Hall
-** Paperclips
-** RadioGroup
-* Emil Crumhorn
-** Collapsiblebuttons
-* GanttChart
-** Ira Fishbein
-* Bidilayout
-** Lukasz Milewski
-** NebulaToolbar
-* Eric Wuillai
-** Formattedtext
-** Datechooser

Breadcrumbs

Notice: this Wiki will be going read only early in 2024 and edits will no longer be possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.

Difference between revisions of "Nebula/restructure"

Latest revision as of 16:44, 19 July 2012

Contents

Nebula Restructure Plan

Move to Git

Rename Projects

Release Schedule

VCS Restructure

Build

Clean Committer list

Assign/Deprecate Widgets

Nebula Project Restructuring Proposal

Background

Actions

Creating Example Plug-ins

Objective

Nebula

Scope

Proposed widgets

Committers

Nebula-Incubator

Scope

Proposed widgets (moved from current Nebula-Project)

Committers

NatTable