[eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Eclipse Project Declaration

[Anne Jacko <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Declaration for the Kepler Project

The Kepler Project is a proposed new project under the top-level Eclipse Technology project: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/kepler. You are invited to comment on and/or join the project. Please send feedback to news://news.eclpse.org/technology.eclipse.kepler.

The purpose of Kepler is to address the complexities involved with provisioning, managing, and using a shared infrastructure in order to support a community-oriented development model. The strategy will consist of the following:

1. Derive an abstract set of tasks required to support software communities, based on tools commonly used today.
2. Develop a framework to orchestrate the execution of related tasks and task groups, with the goal of enabling discovery, access, and control of any third-party, community-infrastructure system from within Kepler.      
3. Provide access to each set of framework features through a rich, Eclipse-based environment, thereby enabling users to participate in community activities without leaving their development environment.

Anne Jacko

Development Process Operations Support

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