The Designer team has been disconnected from the whole Eclipse CDK plug-in effort until
fairly recently (our own fault due to poor communication issues). Now that I'm aware
of the effort, I think we need to make some changes. At a minimum, the CDK efforts needs
to be pulled into the radar of the other Eclipse tooling efforts (JBT and possible JBDS).
Since this is an Eclipse tool, it "belongs with" all of our other Eclipse tools
in JBT regarding building, testing, packaging, and delivery. Even from a community
standpoint, having this project hosted via SourceForge somewhat hides it from that
community, not to mention the JBT developers concerned with delivering a suite of tools
that need to adhere to a number of guidelines to achieve a necessary level of quality and
consistency. Then there's also the consideration of what level of integration we may
want with other tools without our suite. Finally, we've also envisioned other
possible tools for Teiid that would not fall under the umbrella of either Designer or
CDK.
Therefore, I propose that we change several of our Designer components to be more
generically "Teiid Tools" components. We'd want the following:
A new URL at
www.jboss.org/teiidtools.html
Either a new JIRA project (something like TEIIDCDK) or changing the existing TEIIDDES
project to something like TEIIDTOOLS
As with the JIRA change just described, a similar change to the mailing lists
A new home for the CDK code, either in its own project that gets pulled into the JBT
build/testing/packaging framework, or within the JBT SVN.
A new Teiid Tools project page that incorporates documentation, downloads, etc., for
Designer, CDK, and whatever other Teiid-related tools we invent.
Sanjay to be made a committer on the appropriate SVN.
A discussion with the JBT team concerning the CDK, when to include it in a JBT/JBDS
release, etc.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
JPAV