Skip to main content

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [List Home]
Re: [eclipse-dev] Re: [e4-dev] Eclipse Project 4.0 Release

If people are interested, I am hosting an e4 Evangelist call today at 1pmET.  The topic of conversation is how do we structure an e4 landing page and communicate the appropriate message for e4.

The call-in numbers are:

 Participant Passcode:  874 515 514#

Canada:  1-877-727-8553
Canada Caller Paid:  416-840-9801

U.S.  1-866-394-4146
U.S. Caller Paid:  1-480-629-1624


 Germany:  0800-111-1193 

   Germany Caller paid 49-6958-999-0561

UK:  0800-358-3473

   UK Caller Paid:  44-207-154-0023

France: 0800-94-0253

   France Caller Paid:  33-1-70-99-3261

Sweden:  0200-125-713

   Sweden Caller Paid:  46-850-520-161

Finland: 0800-114-845

   Finland Caller Paid:  358-969-379-456


On 4/28/2010 10:17 AM, Eric Clayberg wrote:
I agree 100%. We are already seeing our commercial customers starting to ask (e.g., demand to know) when we will be supporting Eclipse 4.0 with all of our products. The perception is definitely out there that 4.0 is the next great release of Eclipse and that 3.6 is just an (minor? maintenance?) update to the "old" 3.x version. Anyone who reads these lists or pays close attention to what is really going on in Eclipse-land knows better, but that is a small minority compared to the huge mass of Eclipse users out there who will simply assume that 4.0 is the latest and greatest and the place they should be as soon as it is released. Those folks will likely be very disappointed if they try to immediately move to 4.0 and discover that only a handful of Eclipse.org projects and 3rd party plugins actually support it. Some sort of (strong) qualifier (Preview, Beta, Early Availability, Early Adopter, etc. are all good) is definitely needed to mitigate the possible damage to the Eclipse brand and ecosystem and set the proper expectations in the minds of the early adopters (and keep the number of those early adopters to a manageable level).

-Eric

This is a great example of the problem we're facing, and this is just an
early example. People are eagerly awaiting Eclipse 4.0, the next
generation eclipse. You can message until you are blue in the face, but
that isn't going to stop the perception that if you call it 4.0, it's
that 4.0.

So yes, please call this a Preview release or something along that line.

-----Original Message-----
From: eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff McAffer
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:36 AM
To: General development mailing list of the Eclipse project.
Subject: Re: [eclipse-dev] Re: [e4-dev] Eclipse Project 4.0 Release

There could of course be many nuances missed by Google translate but the
article seemed mostly like a distillation of John's recent e4/Eclipse
4.0 clarification post. I don't think they particularly cast the
situation differently (at least not by that translation).

The problems with expectation that arise are inherent in the naming
(Eclipse 4.0). As discussed that naming implicitly leads one to believe
that this is "the Eclipse 4.0 SDK" and it is the "logical successor to
3.6".   If we are not comfortable with everyone downloading and using
it, then the naming should reflect that with some sort of qualifier
(e.g., "Preview", "Beta", "Early Availability", ...).  IMHO this sends a
clear, representative and appropriate message to the community.

Boris' interview article pointed out that we are targetting the 2011
release train. This is nice positioning. It may be a little to subtle
however.  That is, its not clear that people will say "hmm, its not on
the simultaneous release so it is not stable/bug-free/..." (frankly, we
don;t want to promote that idea either). Perhaps we can combine the
approaches and talk about the upcoming Eclipse 4.0 SDK as the
"Indigo/Isaac preview"?

Jeff

_______________________________________________
eclipse-dev mailing list
eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-dev

--
Ian Skerrett
Director of Marketing
Eclipse Foundation
Tel: 613-224-9461 ext 227
Blog: ianskerrett.wordpress.com
Twitter: IanSkerrett

Back to the top