When does a project meet Eclipse Standards?
I am proud to have been voted in as a new committer on the Visual Editor project. The project had been loosing steam lately, but thanks to community support it is slowly getting back on track.
There have been many complaints about when VE would support Callisto/Eclipse 3.3, and it is in fact that that triggered a renewed community interest. One of my first action as a new committer was a request to have our favorite web masters help out and by exerting their extremely powerful rootness to add a temporary statement on the project web page, pointing to install instructions, until I could be fully “provisioned” as a committer. (Since today I am).
The site says now:
Please note: 2007-10-03: Current official builds of the Visual Editor require Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto). The Visual Editor is migrating progressively to Eclipse 3.3 (Europa). Preliminary instructions on testing preview builds are available on the VE wiki. Thank you for your patience and supporting the project!
In that bug, Øyvind Harboe raises a very valid point:
The statement on the web-site is very conservative and it does not point towards a plan. I’m just wondering if that meets Eclipse.org’s standards. Seems like everbody wants to be an Eclipse project these days.
Is 3.3 compatibility days, weeks, months or years out?
The short answer is I do not know, but the community is working actively to find that out, and we started working on an embryonic and draft roadmap. Community folks like Eric Hecht have published builds which have been a great kick for everyone waiting for them and so did I on EasyEclipse.
And we now have a decent way to get VE installed on 3.3.
Thanks so much Eric for instigating a new life in this project!
Now the point is: when does a project meets Eclipse standards?
When there is an active community working on it? When there is frequent releases?
Tell me!
Posted October 12th, 2007 by Philippe Ombredanne in category: community, eclipse, visual editor
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