[e4-dev] Invitation for joining to the Distributed Development Team

[Daniel Rolka <Daniel.Rolka@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Platform UI committers and contributors,

We have shipped Luna that was a great
release in my opinion. We definitely made a major progress in order to
make Eclipse based on the E4 technology better. However there is still
plenty of room for improvement.

In Mars we would like to plan each incoming
milestone separately in order to better follow the Agile practices. The
planning of each new milestone will be done during our bi-weekly meeting
that takes place before beginning of the milestone. During the planning
we will select the bugs for the milestone from our 4.5 priority list -
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Plan/4.5/Planning_Bugs.
The list will be updated during
the release in order to better reflect the state of Mars

Additionally we would like gather together
committers and contributtors that want to work on the priority list of
Mars together with us and build in this way the team called Distributed
Development Team.
The members of the team will really
try to deliver the bugs they signed up during our planning, participate
in the milestone week by testing, fixing and providing the N&N entries
where applicable.
All members of the team will be listed
on the following WIKI page what will increase significantly their visibility
in the project - https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Plan/4.5/Milestones

Hence I would like to invite you for
achieving our plan of the 4.5 release together as members
of the Distributed Development
Team

In order to join the DDT you can
send me proper note by e-mail, join our planning meeting and select the
bugs for the new milestone or send me the bugs you want to take via e-mail.
You can join us anytime during the release and you can also drop off
after completing your milestone. The DDT will have a dynamic nature and
it can change from milestone to milestone. I'm going to send proper planning
invitations earlier, so you can start to think about the incoming planning
and eventually about joining the DDT in the new milestone

If you find the DDT idea interesting,
feel free to join us. We are waiting for you. Of course patches that don't
follow the 4.5 release plan as well as all other forms of your activity
are also welcome as usual.


thanks,
Daniel