[oslc-core] Eclipse Lyo project proposal

[Dave]

Correction - this is the thread for discussing the Eclipse Lyo proposal:
    http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/210563/

- Dave




On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Dave <snoopdave at gmail.com> wrote:
> After discussing with individual committers, Steve Speicher and I,
> along with other OSLC community members, have proposed the creation of
> a new product project at the Eclipse Foundation, based on the code we
> have in the OSLC Tools project at SourceForge [1]. You can read the
> whole proposal on the Eclipse website here:
>
>    http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.lyo
>
> I think there will be a lot of benefits to being an Eclipse project,
> especially as our project grows. It will be easier to recruit new
> contributors and committers with Eclipse governance. We'll benefit
> from Eclipse infrastructure and process. And, we'll benefit in other
> ways by joining a community of projects with similar goals, including
> Mylyn, Orion and who have a focus on system and software development
> tools. You'll note that the proposed project will continue to have
> relationships to a number of other open source projects, especially
> those related to Linked Data, RESTful web services and web development
> in general.
>
> I'd like to comment about two items in the proposal, the charter and
> the license.
>
> You'll notice in the proposal that the Eclipse Lyo project's charter
> is to develop an SDK for OSLC. As we wrote the proposal we realized
> that perhaps the best way to characterize the OSLC Tools codebase is
> an "OSLC Software Development Kit (SDK)" i.e. a set of assets that
> help developers adopt and implement OSLC. It's my opinion that
> organizing as an SDK project will help us focus on the needs of
> developers and help developers understand the project's value
> proposition. The existence of the project won't change the work we do
> on specifications here at the OSLC community, it will be a companion
> project for our work.
>
> You'll also notice that we are proposing a dual license with Eclipse
> Public License (EPL) and Eclipse Distribution License (EDL). This is a
> side-effect of joining Eclipse, but I think it's an acceptable one as
> the EDL is a permissive BSD open source license, like the ASL which we
> use now, and perfect for an SDK.
>
> I hope you'll greet this news with enthusiasm and support :-) If you
> want to add yourself as an interested party to the proposed project,
> or give feedback on the proposal, the appropriate forum is here:
>
>   http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/i/7/
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> --
> David M. Johnson
> OSLC Core Workgroup Lead
> IBM Rational Software
>
> [1] http://oslc-tools.sourceforge.net
>