Eclipse Community Awards 2012

2011 was a difficult but exciting year for GMF Tooling. GMF Tooling was close to disappear from the Eclipse world after all its initial committers brutally left the project, but it could become in a few month a first-class Eclipse project thanks to the effort that were put in making it more open and transparent.

Here are the effort and achievements highlighting the openness of GMF Tooling, and highlighting the positive effects of it on the project life:

* April: 0 active committer on GMF Tooling
* May: 2 active committers on GMF Tooling
* June: GMF Tooling move to Tycho, build can be performed by anyone; and anyone can see it on hudson.eclipse.org
* July: GMF 2.4.0 Release compliant with Indigo
* July: GMF 3.0 release in the roadmap
* July: GMF Tooling back in release train for Juno
* Autumn: Announced release on blogs/PlanetEclipse
* Autumn: Strong improvements in wiki: content, readability... based on users feedback
* September: 3 new contributors working as Full Time employees on GMF Tooling
* November: one new committer
* November: Move to Git, mirrored at GitHub
* November: Achievements announced at EclipseCon Europe during Modeling Symposium. Openness announced.
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And now, GMF Tooling is healthy and the community is now more dynamic, enthusiast, with people providing high-value contributions to the project.

So the GMF Tooling project has put a lot of efforts in making things (source, builds, how-tos...) more transparent for users and contributors, in full transparency. The project is now much more open to new ideas, new contributors, new challenges.

Project URL: http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/gmp/