Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] mission statement

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

I see Ken responded with the one liner of the mission statement.  The
e4 presentation at EclipseCon should also provide a sense of the priorities.
 But I agree, when you go to http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4 there needs
to be a "What is e4" section.  Since one of our big goals
for e4 is community participation, it's a bit difficult to expect that
if nobody understands what it is!  Then again, what it is will be
shaped by the community so a bit of chicken and egg there.

Although the web gets lots of press
because hey its cool that's only a small part of e4.  RCP indeed is
very important, and there was much discussion at the summit on items such
as DeclarativeUI/CSS/styling, scripting, simpler programming model ("the
20 things"), all the way down to resource model.  All of these
have web implications but all are focused on the desktop foremost.

In any case you've provided important
feedback that we need to work more on vision and communicating that.

Cheers,
Kevin

"Christopher Brind" <brindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi all,

I've been following this mailing list for a while and I'll be honest, I'm
still not clear what E4 is trying to achieve at a high level though I can
see there are lots of great ideas being bantered around, plus I've talked
to a few of you about how E4 might share some goals with the Solstice platform
that I developed for Arum Systems.

Today I read this article:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/e4-summit

The linked article implies that E4 is about making the IDE deployable over
web and seems to be the perception that the community is starting to develop.
 

I feel that this is certainly part of it, but to me it is more about giving
RCP additional options for which platforms they can target, web being one
of them.  The IDE is an RCP application after all, so showing that
it can be deployed on the web is an obvious demonstration, but might be
confusing the community slightly.

In addition to this E4 also seems to be about adding new features and rationalising
the great features that have already been added to the Eclipse platform
to date. 

The Vision page actually appears to answer some of the points I'm raising,
but perhaps it needs a bit more visibility.  It would be good if someone
could write a brief mission statement on the main E4 page and link to the
Vision page for more information.  I'm not volunteering! =P

Any other thoughts?

Cheers,
Chris


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