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[e4-dev] e4 Core Services Documentation Project

Announcing Eclipse 4 Core Application Services Documentation:

Myself and two other students at the University of Manitoba ( Chris Hildebrand, and Stefan Dimitrov) have recently completed a documentation project for the e4 core application services.  The project occurred over the past academic term as part of a 4th year communications course.

The project was overseen and assisted by Eclipse developers Mike "McQ" Wilson, Boris Bokowski, Susan Franklin McCourt and John Arthorne.  Completed documentation and supporting deliverables can be found at:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/e4/Doc - This is the project landing page with links to each of the 3 services that have been documented.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/e4/Doc/ProjectDetails - Information surrounding the project, the process, as well as trials and successes can be found here.

The project is far from complete (only have 3 services have been documented), but represents two significant contributions:
1. The project developed an effective template and process to finish documenting the rest of the services
2. The project deliverables are (among) the first non-code contributions to Eclipse and thus have served to pave the way for future "soft" contributions. The project has demonstrated the Eclipse wiki to be a very effective collaboration medium.

We encourage you to check out this effort through the above links and to provide any feedback you may have. Naturally, your contributions to the documentation are also very welcome :-)

Additional Information:  This project was completed during the winter 2010 semester by computer science students enrolled in COMP 4060 at the University of Manitoba.  COMP 4060 is a fourth-year technical communications course that has students contribute to a variety of industry projects and was conducted by Professor Christina Penner during the winter 2010 semester.


Brent Barkman - brentbarkman@xxxxxxxxx
Chris Hildebrand - chrishildebrand@xxxxxxxxx
Stefan Dimitrov - elwebmaster@xxxxxxxxx

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