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Subject: Re: donating ACE IDE to ACE
From: Marcel Offermans <marcel.offermans@luminis.nl>
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:05:38 +0200
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Feel free to ask here. If things are not clear to you, they might also =
not be clear to others, so the worst that can happen is that we all =
learn a thing or two. ;)

On 22 Jun 2011, at 13:46 , P=C5=99emek Brada wrote:

> Hello all,
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> thanks again for encouraging interest and support. I went through the
> (somewhat scattered) information about the donation / IP clearance
> processes and would like to clarify a few things. Is it OK to do this
> on the list or better to take that to a private conversation, since
> it's a rather mundane administrative stuff?
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> Premek
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> On 16 June 2011 14:12, Marcel Offermans <marcel.offermans@luminis.nl> =
wrote:
>> I agree with both JB and Toni, we definitely want to accept this =
donation, and it would be great if the two of you could pick it up (not =
trying to exclude anybody else that wants to work on this, feel free to =
join in).
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>> To explain the process of donating something, the following links are =
probably helpful:
>> http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
>> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#poding-ip-clearance
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>> Greetings, Marcel
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>>=20
>> On 16 Jun 2011, at 13:39 , Toni Menzel wrote:
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>>> Great!! Nice to hear that. Would love to assist as i am also getting =
into
>>> the "mood" of developing Eclipse Plugins .. though.
>>> Thanks for the donation!
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>>> Toni
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>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofr=C3=A9 =
<jb@nanthrax.net>wrote:
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>>>> Hi Premek,
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>>>> it's really a great news !!
>>>> Thanks for this donation.
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>>>> I will be pleased to review it and mentor the integration of ACE =
IDE in
>>>> ACE.
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>>>> Thanks again
>>>> Regards
>>>> JB
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>>>> On 06/16/2011 12:16 PM, P=C5=99emek Brada wrote:
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>>>>> Hello Marcel and everybody,
>>>>>=20
>>>>> On 10 June 2011 20:23, Marcel =
Offermans<marcel.offermans@luminis.nl>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> As the project currently
>>>>>>> stands, I'm quite open to donating it to ACE and re-license =
under ASL
>>>>>>> -- I'll  discuss this with my student (who under our law is the =
sole
>>>>>>> holder of copyright) and then post to the list in that respect.
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>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> That would be nice.
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>>>>>=20
>>>>> I spoke to the student developer, and he is willing to pass the
>>>>> project on to the Apache ACE project, re-licensing under ASL. Both =
him
>>>>> and I would however like to make sure that his (and our =
university)
>>>>> contribution does not disappear by doing so, ie that he can =
reference
>>>>> back to his work after it is part of ACE.
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>>>>> So I would like to ask for help with the donation and transition. =
My
>>>>> rough idea is that
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>>>>> 1. we create a jira ticket for this
>>>>> 2. we clarify the origin of the code (some minor pieces were =
reused
>>>>> from other open source projects)
>>>>> 3. an archive with cleaned up source (author in javadocs, correct
>>>>> license header) is attached to the ticket
>>>>> 4. paperwork related to the donation and IP clearance is done (?)
>>>>> 5. someone with committer rights imports the sources to the =
repository
>>>>> 6. documentation is transferred to ACE wiki
>>>>>=20
>>>>> but obviously I am not completely sure about the process and its =
many
>>>>> details. Could you please clarify it for us?  (Maybe outside the
>>>>> mailing list 'coz I assume it will be boring details for most =
other
>>>>> people.)
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>>>>> Since the student is currently awaiting final exams, he will not
>>>>> probably be available until the start of July; so I guess the =
whole
>>>>> thing will be done during the summer months depending on when each =
of
>>>>> us is available.
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>>>>> Premek
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
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>>> --
>>> Toni Menzel Source <http://tonimenzel.com>
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> --=20
> Premek Brada (Ing et MSc, PhD)
>   Lecturer in Software enginering, Webmaster
>   Department of Computer Science and Engineering
>   University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, CZ
>   << brada at kiv.zcu.cz | www.kiv.zcu.cz/~brada/ | +420-377-63-2435 =
>>
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