[technology-pmc] Graduation review for Eclipse CommaSuite

["Hooman, J.J.M. (Jozef)" <jozef.hooman@xxxxxx>]

Request of Eclipse CommaSuite

https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.comma

Eclipse CommaSuite request a graduation review. Since we started in 2021 from TNO (a large Dutch research organization) we postponed the graduation review to meet the multi-organization requirement. Currently we have committers with affiliations from multiple organizations. For instance, the very active committer Ivan Kurtev is associated with the Capgemini and the Eindhoven University of Technology (see https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/ivan-kurtev ). Jozef Hooman is connected to the Radboud University (see  https://www.cs.ru.nl/J.Hooman/ ) and Luna Li is employed at Capgemini. Currently, Mathijs Schuts (until recently employed at Philips, now at the Radboud University - see https://www.cs.ru.nl/staff/Mathijs.Schuts/ ) is joining the project. He was already active in a predecessor of Eclipse CommaSuite and we are confident that he can become a valuable committer later.

Moreover, a number of students contributed to the development of Eclipse CommaSuite:

• Bart-Jan Hilbrands (University of Amsterdam) Master thesis project on adapter generation for inter-dependent component interfaces, see https://www.akesson.nl/files/students/hilbrands-thesis.pdf  
• Elmer Hoeksema (University of Amsterdam); Master thesis project on change propagation rules for static impact analysis of interface model  changes
• Merrick Oost-Rosengren (University of Amsterdam); Master thesis project on adapter generation for interfaces with data-dependent behavior
• Josiah Soegiharto: Fontys student at Philips, extend the Protobuf / ZeroMQ generation
• Daan Hendriks (Eindhoven University of Technology); Master thesis on Integrating System and Software Modeling - A Case Study on Capella and Eclipse CommaSuite, see https://research.tue.nl/en/studentTheses/exploring-conceptual-alignments-for-interface-specification-in-mo  
• Martijn Vogelaar (Radboud University);  Master thesis on run-time monitoring of distributed systems
• Andrei Roncea (Eindhoven University of Technology), Master thesis on improving the verification capabilities of ComMA, https://research.tue.nl/en/studentTheses/improving-the-verification-capabilities-of-comma  

The Eclipse CommaSuite approach is actively used in Philips for modeling and monitoring interfaces. Thales Netherlands is incorporating the approach into their workflow.

We are actively disseminating the Eclipse CommaSuite approach, see for instance the publications on https://eclipse.dev/comma/site/publications.html . This includes a recent academic journal and more popular articles, such as Bits & Chips articles about the industrial usage.

After the initial release we had quite a number of releases (see  https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/comma/comma/-/releases ) and the tooling turned out to be very stable. The number of reported errors is low; most of the issues ask for additional features.

There is a lot of face-to-face contact between the commiters and with industrial users to hear about their experiences. Nevertheless, all errors and requests are reported as issues in the open source repository and all development happens in branches of this repository.

The 3^rd party dependence are tracked in https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/comma/comma/-/blob/main/NOTICE-THIRD-PARTY.md  and licenses are checked with Eclipse Dash (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.dash).

After successful progress review end 2023, see https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/emo/-/issues/615 , we added a few missing files.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Best regards,

   Jozef Hooman

   project lead Eclipse CommaSuite

 

 

 

 

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