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.
http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/
http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.sapphire
https://www.ohloh.net/p/sapphire
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.
http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/releases/0.7/iplog.html
Sapphire has made 25 releases so far,
including seven major releases.
http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/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.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Sapphire/Adopters
The adopter forum is active.
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/192/
The blog stream is active. If you are
monitoring Planet Eclipse, you are probably tired of hearing
about Sapphire 0.7 by now.
http://lt-rider.blogspot.com/
Sapphire was the first guinea pig to use
HIPP and builds run continuously on every change on all active
branches.
https://hudson.eclipse.org/sapphire/
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.
http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/releases/0.7/documentation/releases/0.7/migration.html
Let me know if I can answer any questions
or provided further information.
Thanks,
- Konstantin