[eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Introducing Orion

All,

I would like to draw your attention to an interesting new announcement that the Eclipse Foundation made this morning. Orion is a brand new, browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web.

We would be very interested in hearing feedback from the community.

Here are a few key dates to keep in mind:

· This week we are going to get the initial code contribution into Eclipse’s git repository and some initial documentation into the wiki.

· Next week we are going to start inviting a small number of people to try out the technology hosted on our servers.

· By the end of January we will have a much broader trial available on our servers, and we will be inviting the entire Eclipse committer population to try it out.

· In early March the Eclipse Foundation will be hosting a face-to-face meeting to develop the project proposal.

Here are a few things to look at.

Blogs

http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/mike/2011/01/11/introducing-orion/

http://borisoneclipse.blogspot.com/2011/01/orion.html

Documentation, including a mission statement

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion

Code

http://download.eclipse.org/e4/orion/

The contributed code will be in two git repositories later today which can be accessed at:

http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/e4/org.eclipse.orion.client.git

http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/e4/org.eclipse.orion.server.git