Now that folks are back from the winter holidays, any thoughts or comments on this?
Thanks,
- Konstantin
Technology PMC,
I believe that Sapphire has spent a sufficient length of time in incubation. The project is active and is behaving in the manner consistent with mature Eclipse projects. I am seeking approval from Tech PMC to file for graduation review in conjunction with the next release review.
The next major release will be called Sapphire 8 (dropping the leading zero; last release was 0.7) and would release as part of Luna. Sapphire has participated in the last two simultaneous releases and is already part of Luna with 0.7 release currently contributed.
Sapphire has three committers (all from Oracle), but contributions from the broader community are readily accepted. To date, four non-Oracle developers have made contributions.
Sapphire has made 25 releases so far, including seven major releases.
Sapphire is actively used in production software, both by Oracle and by other adopters. Of particular note is Liferay IDE, which has a significant portion of its portal tooling built using Sapphire.
The adopter forum is active.
The blog stream is active. If you are monitoring Planet Eclipse, you are probably tired of hearing about Sapphire 0.7 by now.
Sapphire was the first guinea pig to use HIPP and builds run continuously on every change on all active branches.
Code quality is high, with 719 unit tests that run as part of Hudson build and very few outstanding bugs. API is steadily evolving and detailed migration guides are provided with each major releases.
Let me know if I can answer any questions or provided further information.
Thanks,
- Konstantin
