Aleksandar Kurtakov (https://www.eclipse.org/user/akurtakov) has made an impact on the project.
He has addressed the following bugs:
Bug 430719 – Update build system (Tycho 0.17 → 0.20 and related Maven plugins)
Bug 430723 – Update org.eclipse.epp.mpc.site build
Bug 431100 – Remove the hand-written source feature and let Tycho generate it; migrate the site from the deprecated eclipse-update-site packaging to eclipse-repository
Bug 533805 – Remove the dependency on the o.e.equinox.util bundle
Fixed a credentials lookup in MarketplaceClientUi that could never succeed because the map was queried with the wrong key type
#61 – Handle HTTP response codes ≥ 300, fixing an NPE in the HTTP client transport error handling
#26, #44 and several earlier commits – Repeatedly fixed broken builds after upstream I-build and Orbit repositories were removed
He has also kept the project's build and infrastructure current for more than a decade. He has upgraded Tycho continuously from 0.17 to 5.0.2, converted the build to Tycho pomless (#56), and added a Jenkinsfile (#31). He enabled Dependabot (#46) and fixed the GitHub Actions workflows. He moved the codebase through Java 11 to Java 17 as the minimum runtime (#35) and migrated off deprecated and internal APIs, including HttpClient, WorkbenchBrowserSupport, ViewerSorter, imageDescriptorFromPlugin and Class.newInstance. He removed the obsolete HC4 site (#2), which prevented duplicate HttpClient 4 bundles in SimRel, and stopped building source features ahead of their removal from Tycho (#34). He has also modernized the test suite by converting it to JUnit 5 (#62), cleaning up outdated tests and getting the tests running reliably in CI again (#57–#60). Along the way he has done extensive code cleanup across the core, UI and test bundles. Beyond his own contributions, he has reviewed code and helped out in issue discussions.
It is my pleasure to nominate Aleksandar Kurtakov as a project lead on Eclipse Marketplace Client.
| Voter | Vote | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Leif Geiger | +1 | +1 implied by nomination |
| Ed Merks | +1 | Super. |