Re: [rt-pmc] Updated charter

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the scope should still have a few bullets that outlines the OSGi technology as it applies to runtimes.  But to be honest many of these bullets are specific things that fall under the charters for Equinox and others (e.g. ECF, gemini etc).

Here are a few bullets to get us started:

Overview:

Concretely, RT projects supply technologies that are used to build modular runtimes or provide a complete runtime themselves.  Many RT projects use a modular architecture based on OSGi technologies, but an RT project is not required to use or live in an OSGi Framework.   The nature of this work is scoped as follows:


 - The implementation of generally applicable runtime standards (e.g. OASIS, JCP, OSGi).
 - Implement various OSGi specifications that contribute to the modular architecture used by various runtime technologies at Eclipse.
 - Investigate and research future innovations in runtime technologies.  This includes influencing various expert groups that are developing new versions of runtime related specifications used by Eclipse.  For example, the OSGi Alliance.
 - Implement key components used to build the various platforms at Eclipse.

Others?

Tom



Ian Bull ---11/19/2013 10:34:33 PM---In between EclipseCon submission reviews (thank-you everyone who submitted a talk, BTW), I took a fi

From: Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Runtime Project PMC mailing list <rt-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 11/19/2013 10:34 PM
Subject: [rt-pmc] Updated charter
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In between EclipseCon submission reviews (thank-you everyone who submitted a talk, BTW), I took a first stab at updating the RT Charter[1]. I've pushed it to GitHub so we can collaborate on it [2].

[1] https://github.com/irbull/rt-charter/blob/master/rt-charter.md
[2] https://github.com/irbull/rt-charter

I removed the OSGi specific parts, which went well for the first few sections. However, the section on 'scope' is entirely about OSGi. This raises the question, what is the scope of an RT Project now? Historically we were all about providing OSGi related technologies (bundles, reference implementations, etc...). Do we have anything defining now? Obviously 'Runtime' technologies, but that can be categorized as everything that's not tooling.

Thoughts?

Ian

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