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Each major project (the top-level projects except for the Tools and Technology projects where it is the sub-projects) should have an About dialog icon and contribute to the welcome page.
Per the last Planning Council call, it was decided that the this requirement should be a must-do, so bumping priority to P1. Furthermore, as discussed in bug 198941, the About dialog text for contributed features/bundles should be more descriptive than simply "Eclipse.org" (e.g. Eclipse Modeling Project). PMCs are responsible for determining the appropriate provider names for their project(s), which is an update to the explicit mention of Tools and Technology above.
I suppose that dependent bug's priorities should be bumped to P1 as well? Can anybody recommend a graphic artist to produce a nice "Eclipse like" icon? I like the existing ones (such as modeling) very much, but don't know where to get one for DSDP.
(In reply to comment #2) > I suppose that dependent bug's priorities should be bumped to P1 as well? Indeed. Maybe we can enlist Anne's help again? ;) > Can anybody recommend a graphic artist to produce a nice "Eclipse like" icon? I > like the existing ones (such as modeling) very much, but don't know where to > get one for DSDP. We ran a contest, following the lead of WebTools (see bug 154906)
To clarify the "Provider name" rules, the Planning council has stated the following. We realize there may be other issues such as exactly what the right level of granularity is. We believe it best to leave that up to PMCs, and the community can provide feedback if they do not like what they see. # Provider name should always start with "Eclipse ..." followed by project name. It is (still) up to each PMC to decide how best to describe their project in a meaningful, balanced fashion (either as one top level one or as multiple pieces). Avoid special symbols (e.g. ':' or "-") unless they are part of the project name. Avoid acronyms (unless in common use in software industry, such as XML, or PHP). Capitalization should follow "headline-sytyle capitalization": The only words that are not capitalized are articles (except as the first word), coordinating conjunctions (for example, and, but, and or), prepositions (except as the first or last word), and the to in an infinitive. ) # For now, only the branding/primary feature is important to get right. Long term, all plugins and features should use the correct "Provider Name", same as that branding plugin/feature, but we do not encourage a lot of last minute touching of plugins just to fix the provider name. It can be phased in when other changes are made to those plugins, if desired.
THis is a routine mass closing of the previous release umbrella tracking bugs.
