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Thomas Watson: Top Committer Award Nominee
At 6:57 PM on Jan 31, 2007, Alex Blewitt
wrote:
Thomas Watson
(
IBM
, Austin, Texas) has been nominated for the
Eclipse Top Commiter Award
. EclipseZone asked him a little about himself:
How did you first get involved with Eclipse, and how long ago?In the Summer of 2003 I became a member of the Equinox Technology project to assist in moving the Eclipse runtime over to OSGi for the Eclipse 3.0 release. I have been involved in OSGi since 2001, developing IBM's implementation of the OSGi Framework ( SMF ) and developing an embedded web container and web applications based on top of the OSGi Framework. When IBM donated SMF to the Equinox project I became Framework implementation owner in Equinox.
What Eclipse-related projects are you working on and what are you doing?I work on the Equinox project. I am the development lead of the Equinox Framework component. I do the normal activities you would expect from a component owner, such as, developing enhancements, fixing bugs, and answering mailing list and newsgroup questions.
I am also a member of the OSGi Core Platform Expert Group ( CPEG ) which develops the OSGi Core specification. I propose new requirements and solutions needed by the Eclipse community to CPEG. For OSGi R4 I helped write many of the new modularity features that were required for Eclipse to be able to leverage OSGi, for example, bundle fragments, multiple package version support, require-bundle support etc. The most recent activities have involved standardizing the Eclipse lazy activation features in OSGi for the upcoming OSGi R4.1 release and implementing the new R4.1 features in Equinox. The Equinox Framework will continue to be the reference implementation for the OSGi R4.1 release.
What's your favourite Eclipse feature that you've added?The OSGi Framework of course!
What's your favourite feature/plugin (commercial or open source)?PDE , without it developing bundles would be unbearable.
What OSes do you do development on?Windows and Linux.
Are you attending EclipseCon or giving a talk this year?Yes, I'm giving a talk with Jeff McAffer " Ubiquitous Eclipse: Equinox everywhere "
Lastly, how do you see yourself in the Eclipse community, and why should people vote for you?I am very active in both the Eclipse community and the OSGi community developing modularity features needed by the Eclipse platform. To quote the critically acclaimed PDE development lead Wassim Melhem "Tom should win this award for all the often-taken-for-granted guys who do excellent work in the trenches and who are " the wind beneath our wings" "
EclipseZone would like to thank those that took part, and please remember to vote for the individual awards prior to the closing date of February 16th 2007.
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