Technology/Subproject Termination Review 2011

This page is moderated by the Technology PMC and EMO.

• Review date: December 2011 time frame
• Communication channel: Talk:Technology/Subproject_Termination_Review_2011

Projects

The following Technology projects will be terminated and archived.

Athena

Athena is actually a component of Dash in the classic EDP sense; With the EDP changes introduced in 2008, Athena became a defacto project. Athena provides a great service to assist Eclipse projects with building. However, the intent was for Athena to be bridge technology and newer technologies, such as Tycho are maturing to the point where many projects have already moved away from Athena. Development has ceased, and Athena-related traffic on the various communication forums has been non-existent.

Activities:

• Update wiki pages to indicate that project is archived
• Archive /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.dash/athena
• Archive|Remove /opt/public/cbi/
  • This directory seems to primarily contain code from other projects, and so can probably be removed (please confirm)
• Archive|Remove /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/athena
  • This directory seems to primarily contain code from other projects, and so can probably be removed (please confirm)
• Retire committers

Cloud Deployment Toolkit

The CDTK project never managed to get started.

• Project mailing list is the unmodified template
• No activity in the mailing list
• No activity in the forum since April 2010
• No initial contribution evident in IPZilla
• Test commits made in Git repositories in September 2010; no commits since

Diagnosis: dead on arrival. Recommend termination. Project lead concurs.

Activities:

• Archive project web site: /cdtk
• Archive mailing list: cdtk.dev
• Archive forum: eclipse.cdtk
• Archive Git repository: /gitroot/cdtk
• Delete empty downloads directory: /cdtk
• Delete bugzilla product: Technology/CDTK

Community-driven Systems Management in Open Source Project (COSMOS)

No commit activity in CVS since October 2010. No forum Activity since May 2010. The project appears to have been inactive for more than a year.

Activities:

• Archive project web site
• Archive mailing lists
  • cosmos-dev
  • cosmos-mgmt
  • cosmos-pmc
• Archive forum: eclipse.technology.cosmos
• Archive CVS repository:/cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.cosmos
• Archive downloads: /technology/cosmos/

Dash/Ganomatic Build Tool

Ganomatic appears to be a non-project. Little, if any project metadata has been specified. There are no documented SCM repositories in project metadata; there is, however, a directory named org.eclipse.dash.siteassembler that is owned by the project's UNIX group in the Dash CVS repository. There are no downloads. There is no dedicated mailing list or project forum.

This project has something to do with a very early version of the simultaneous release (i.e. Ganymede), but is not used today (confirmed with David Williams).

Activities:

• Archive CVS repository: /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.dash/org.eclipse.dash.siteassembler
• Mark project Wiki pages to indicate that the project has been archived.

Faceted Project Framework

Faceted Project Framework was created in an attempt to make facets technology that was developed in WTP more accessible to other Eclipse projects. The project failed, due in part to lack of cooperation from WTP. The original framework continues to be in active use at its original location in WTP. Development on the branch associated with this separate project has ceased a while ago.

Activities:

• Archive project web site: /fproj
• Archive mailing list: fproj-dev
• Archive forum: eclipse.froj
• Archive /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.fproj
• Move bugs in "Technology/Faceted Project Framework" to "WebTools/WTP Common Tools/Faceted Project Framework".
• Remove empty downloads directory: /fproj

Eclipse IAM (Integration for Apache Maven)

There has been no commit activity in the IAM source code repository in more than a year (the most recent commits are in September 2010). There is, however, some activity on the project forum with responses from project committers. The project lead, and several committers agree.

Activities:

• Archive project web site: /iam
• Archive mailing list: iam-dev
• Archive forum: eclipse.technology.iam
• Archive SVN repository: /svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.iam
• Remove empty download directory: /technology/iam
• Remove Bugzilla product: Technology/IAM

Open Financial Market Platform (OFMP)

OFMP appears dead. There has been some relatively-recent activity (Jan 2011) in which project lead, Frederic Conrotte states, "The actual code is being rewritten to run on Eclipse Virgo, which is based on Spring technologies." However, the last commit occurred in July 2008 and there has been no activity in the project forum since July 2010.

• Archive Project website: /ofmp
• Archive CVS Repository: /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ofmp
• Remove empty downloads directory: /technology/ofmp

Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight

There have been no commits on the ESL project since November 2010. There are numerous broken links on the project home page (including the downloads link). Much of the project content remains offsite (i.e. it hasn't been moved over to Eclipse.org); given that all the CQs created for the project have been resolved, we must assume (in the absence of further evidence) that the effort to bring the project over has stalled. There are several unanswered questions in the project forum; in fact, it does not appear that any project committer has ever made a single entry in the forum. The project appears dead.

I have asked the project for input. No response.

Activities:

• Archive project web site: /esl
• Archive mailing list: esl-dev
• Archive forum: eclipse.esl
• Archive CVS repository: /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.esl
• Archive download directory: /esl
• Remove Bugzilla product: Technology/ESL

Open Healthcare Framework (OHF)

There has been no commit activity in the OHF source code repository in more than a year (update: three commits were made in October 2011). Recent (September 2011) questions on the newsgroup have gone unanswered. There is no project-related activity on the project mailing list. The project appears dead.

The project lead, Grahame Grieve responded to a query on the project's mailing list about project liveliness that "most of the activity related to OHF has moved elsewhere - either to other eclipse projects (platform ones) or to OHT (openhealthtools.org)."

Activities:

• Archive project website: /ohf
• Archive mailing list: ohf-dev
• Archive forum: eclipse.technology.ohf
• Archive CVS repository: /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ohf
• Archive downloads directory: /downloads/technology/ohf/