I was one of the first contributors to the EMF Compare component, and I have to say I am glad to see it growing and maturing as the project lead, Cedric Brun, reports it. Congratulations to Obeo for their hard work!
The goal of this component is to compare effectively models, without using a UI.
On my plate, I need to test it with some of our BPMN models and see how it tracks down the changes. BPMN is a bit tricky because of the extensive use of edges, instead of having attribute changes as in UML (most of th time, when I was developing my contribution to this component, I was using a class diagram).
More here.
If you are a student and interested into Eclipse, you can participate to the Google Summer of Code on one of the ideas that the Eclipse Foundation proposes here.
Please give us some feedback or directly add to the page the ideas you have for the BPMN modeler and EMF Compare !
This is an unique opportunity, getting paid and get some experience easily.
If you are interested into Eclipse and the projects I am contributing to, you might wonder how to get in and talk to us directly.
If you want to ask questions and contribute, you may send an e-mail to the stp-dev@eclipse.org mailing-list (register here).
If you have questions regarding the use of our BPMN modeler, please send an e-mail to the stp-user@eclipse.org mailing-list (after registering here), or get Thunderbird and ask a question on the newsgroup.
Now here is the deal if you want to contribute code to the project. If you find a bug or have an enhancement, jut code it, then open a bug about it. Make sure it is assigned to the STP BPMN project !
Finally, attach the fix to the bug entry, and we will review it. After several of those contributions, you may be voted a committer.
Just make sure that your company is okay with it, if you do this as a work assignment.
If you have questions regarding our commercial product, just register here !
Still on EclipseCon 2007 :
The panel was presented by Jean Bezivin, me, Cedric Brun, and Ed Merks, in this order.
Jean talked about the need for a comparison engine, with some references to the Unix world and the diff method.
I talked about the requirements we had chosen to follow.
Cedric talked about the status of the project. He is the guy who actually touchedthe code for the last 6 months.
Ed Merks welcomed our contribution and called for contributions.
We had some very interesting questions.
I was presenting at EclipseCon last week.
I had three public appearances (a lot for a young gal like me !).
