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[babel-dev] May we introduce ourselfs...
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Hi
as you might have noticed on this list, three commiters were added to
the babel project recently. We would like to take this opportunity to
briefly introduce ourselfs as well as the work that we have been doing.
Alexej Strelzow, born in Voronezh (Russia), currently roosts ;-), works
and studies in the beautiful city of Vienna (Austria). Besides his
studies in the area of Business Informatics and Software Engineering &
Internet Computing he is interested in martial arts (1st dan black belt
in Dae Han Min Guk Hapkido), climbing and travelling. Alexej is a SCJP
for the platform 1.6 and he has been using the Eclipse IDE for many
years and got in touch with many concepts and technologies, like
Internationalization, Data Binding, SWT, JFaces, CNF, JDT, AST, BIRT and
so on. He appreciates the upgrade to an Eclipse Babel committer very
much and will do his best to keep the "ki" (energy) flowing.
Since 2004, Martin periodically worked as freelancer on different
software projects. In 2010, he started working as software engineer and
scientific project member for RISE. Approximately at the same time, he
began to work on the research project TapiJI at the Vienna University of
Technology. After contributing parts of TapiJI to the Eclipse Babel
project, Martin appreciates his upgrade to an Eclipse Babel committer.
Stefan Strobl is a research assistant at the Vienna University of
Technology, currently on a research assignment in southern India. He is
currently working in the field of software engineering, maintenance and
evolution as well as software internationalization and software product
lines - both, from an academic and industrial perspective. His previous
experience in the Eclipse Environment include being a comitter on the
Mylyn Reviews project.
The three of us (together with some other contributors and students)
have been working on a research project called TapiJI [0] supported by
the Research Group for Industrial Software, Vienna University of
Technology. TapiJI is a smart set of tools to facilitate processes
around builing internationalised software, built on top of the great
work done by Pascal Essiembre, the Essiember Resource Bundle Editor
(which was also contributed to the Babel project and is now known as
Babel Messages Editor). The project was started in early 2010 based on
the research done by Martin on his masters thesis supervised by Stefan.
Great feedback from a presentation done at an Eclipse DemoCamp in Vienna
prompted us to open source the project on EclipseLabs and continue
bejond the scope of the original thesis. This includes but is not
limited to the work done by Alexej who has implemented the refactoring
support as well as some sophisticated bug fixes and improvements to the
original messages editor.
To further facilitate community involvement and contributions we have
now decided to contribute the already matured core code base to the
Eclipse Babel project. A step that has just been completed today by
performing the initial commits [1], [2]. Some less stable artefacts,
plugins and prototypes are going to be kept in the EclipseLabs project
to provide a suiteable environment for the students of our research
project. If you are interested in our newest ideas and experiments,
please do not hesitate to check it out.
[0] http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/tapiji/
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=379083
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=379084
We welcome you to check out the new contributions to babel and invite
you to tell us your opinion about them. If you would like to contribute
in any way, please let us know.
Finally we want to extend a big thank you to Kit Lo and Denis Roy for
all the support they have been giving us during the last months in
completing the contribution and the process for bringing us in as
commiters.
best regards
Alexej, Martin and Stefan
