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[eclipse.org-committers] Eclipse Committer Newsletter 2005 issue 2
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FILLING YOUR INBOX
-Bjorn Freeman-Benson
It's been two months since the last newsletter, so it's time to compete
with BitTorrent for bandwidth and distribute another newsletter.
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LOTS AND LOTS OF REVIEWS
-Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Eclipse continues to attract a fire hose-like influx of new project
proposals. Each of these proposals will have a Creation Review, and of
course each major project will have a Release Review. All of this makes
for a large number of reviews. The list of all known upcoming reviews
is here: http://www.eclipse.org/org/processes/index.html and it includes
an RSS feed.
We are doing a number of things to try to ensure that you have time to
read the proposals of, and comment on and attend the reviews of anything
interesting to you:
1. I am restricting the number of reviews and bubbling the best ones up
before the less well prepared ones.
2. There has been an interesting and active discussion amongst the Board
and
the Councils about the Eclipse Development Process. I am working to
encapsulate
the latest version of that discussion in a more explicit (and
hopefully easier
to follow) set of guidelines. These guidelines should clarify the
evaluation criteria for each of the Reviews.
Again, I urge you to attend the reviews of any project or proposal that
you either champion or are concerned about. Eclipse is about its
community and thus it is important for the community to provide kudos
and critiques.
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PROJECT CHANGES
-Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Since the last newsletter (and my apologies in advance if I've forgotten
someone here), the following new and old projects have changed state:
New Technology projects:
* Buckminster Component Assembly Project
* Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)
* Higgins Trust Framework
* Lepido, Tools for Apache Cocoon
* Mylar (a thin film to prevent information blindness)
* Phoenix (new website for eclipse.org)
Archived Technology projects:
* Koi - no more active development
* XSD - moved to EMF
* WSVT - moved to WTP
Project Releases:
* BIRT 1.0
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WEBSITE REPORT
-Bjorn Freeman-Benson
The new website project has been underway for a couple months now.
There is a mailing list (phoenix-dev@), a newsgroup
(eclipse.technology.phoenix), and of course the Community > Website
Bugzilla area. An audit of the current website has been completed to
find out what we have and would like to keep. A comparison with other
websites (such as Apache and Mozilla and NetBeans) has been completed to
look for interesting features. Right now we are working on selecting a
content management system and wire framing the information flow.
Like all Eclipse projects, many hands will make light work.
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ECLIPSECON 2006
-Bjorn Freeman-Benson
I received exactly two replies to my "volunteer to help with selecting
talks for the Committer track at EclipseCon 2006" which is admittedly a
disappointing response. I'm going to have to start involuntarily
volunteering some of you in order to make the content a success.
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PLANET ECLIPSE
-Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Thanks to Ed Burnett and Denis Roy, http://www.planeteclipse.org/ is
aggregating over twenty Eclipse-related blogs.
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PROJECT DASHBOARD
-Bjorn Freeman-Benson
I'll be putting together a set of "Project Dashboard"-like tools over
the next couple months, so if there are any specific metrics you would
like to know about Eclipse projects, let me know. For example, you
might want to know how active the CVS checkins are and where a certain
ranks in the activity list? Or you might want to know the min-avg-max
response time to a new bug report is? Or ?? I'm open to ideas.
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YOUR BOARD REPRESENTATIVES
- Scott Lewis, John Wiegand, Kai-Uwe Maetzel
Just a reminder that your Board representatives would love to hear from you:
slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
john_wiegand@xxxxxxxxxx
Kai-Uwe_Maetzel@xxxxxxxxxx
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Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Technical Director, Open Source Process and Infrastructure
Eclipse Foundation
voice: 971-327-7323
email: bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx
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