[eclipse.org-committers] FYI: A Revised Development Process

[Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fellow Committers,
Recently the Board finally approved the 2008 revision to the Eclipse 
Development Process. You can find the process in it's usual place:
   http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php 

You can read about the changes in the series of blog posts I wrote back 
in March:
* 
http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2008/03/edp-2008-1-hierarchical-projects.html
* http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2008/03/edp-2008-2-components.html
* 
http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2008/03/edp-2008-3-self-managing-committer.html
* http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2008/03/edp-2008-4-reviews.html
* http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2008/03/edp-2008-5-moving-code.html
* http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2008/03/edp-2008-6-releases.html

None of the changes are of the "you must understand it now" variety: 
most are related to the various Reviews. When the time comes for your 
project's next Review, the talented Anne will step you through the 
process and it will all seem rational and natural and you'll wonder why 
we didn't do it this way before. Other of the changes are related to 
project structure; for those, when the talented Karl approaches you 
about refactoring your project, he will explain what needs to be done. 
In either case, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Note that we are also working on improving the related process 
documentation and moving it to the wiki. Please feel free to help (and 
thanks already to Martin and Dave for their early contributions):
   http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources

- Bjorn