[osgi-dev] Update on the OSGi Working Group

[Jürgen Albert <j.albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Dear OSGi enthusiasts,
    
    It has been a couple of months since we announced the move of your
    favorite Specification Organization to the Eclipse Foundation. We
    have been silent since, but this does not mean that we have been
    inactive. So we want to use this chance to give you a brief update
    on the current state of affairs.
    
    In early January we started our work, by forming the OSGi Working
    Group Steering Committee. We basically started the Working Group
    (WG) up by ratifying the Charter.
    Despite our Veterans on the Committee, we needed to find our feet
    and learn how to navigate the new waters of the Eclipse Foundation.
    Thanks to the tremendous support we receive from the Eclipse Team we
    persevered and made a lot of progress to manage the necessary
    formalities.
    
    What is the current status you ask? We have formed the following
    bodies:

OSGi WG Steering Committee

    The Steering Committee is the overall governing body of the WG. If
    you are interested in details on the function of the committee, have
    a look at the Powers and Duties section in the Charter.
    At the moment we have two elected Participant members in addition to
    the Strategic members with a permanent seat. The seat for an elected
    Committer representative is currently vacant and an election will
    take place in the May timeframe, as soon as the Projects are
    completely set up and everyone has had sufficient time to join.
    
    For the time being, we have adopted the vanilla Eclipse
      Specification Process as suggested by the Specification
    Committee. All the specification work will fall under the Implementation
      Patent License. We are currently working on the migration of
    the old Alliance assets (Website, Twitter etc.) and to chaperon the
    projects that are being set up as we speak.

OSGi WG Specification Committee

    This committee governs the Specification Process and votes on the
    final Specifications. It thus steers the technological direction our
    Specifications will take. For more details you can again look at the
    charter. At the moment it is composed of the same members as the
    Steering Committee. The real work of the committee will start once
    specification work begins in the OSGi Specification Project. We need
    to get a feeling for the Eclipse
      Specification Process and need to see if we want to make
    adjustments.

OSGi Specification Project

    This is where the magic happens. All specification work will be done
    in this project. It is already open to join,
    however you must be a member of the OSGi Working Group to be a
    project committer. The original OSGi github repository was
    handed over to the Eclipse Foundation and is now public. It is
    currently undergoing final integration into Eclipse Foundation
    processes. As soon as this is done, we can commence our actual
    specification work. How we will proceed with the design
      repository, is still an open point and will be addressed
    soon.  We are currently discussing things like: Do we want to
      keep RFPs and RFCs?, How will they be written in the
      future?, etc. If you want to get on the notification train for
    this project, please subscribe to the project's mailing
      list.

The OSGi Technology Project

    Here
    our companion projects like osgi-test or OSGi
      enRoute. If you are a committer already or plan to become one,
    please join the project. Becoming a committer in this project does
    not require you to be a member of the OSGi Working Group.

What else?

    The old osgi.org
    website is dead and the current version is just a placeholder.
    Creating fitting and prevailing content is currently discussed and
    we hope to get the new version online as soon as possible. Javadoc
    and Specifications are still available under docs.osgi.org.
    There are a lot of other minutiae we will not bother you with. We
    still have a lot of work ahead of us and as a volunteer army,
    everyone who is willing to help is welcome.
    So please spread the word. We try to get everything up and running
    as soon as possible and will keep you posted.

Your Committee Team.

-- 
Jürgen Albert
CEO - Data In Motion Consulting GmbH
Member Eclipse OSGi Working Group Steering Committee


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