| [epp-dev] Re: (increasingly misnamed) Eclipse project announcment |
Tim,I'm not seeing the confusion, but then I'm probably just so confused that I don't know that I'm confused :-)The EMO position is understandable and thus I was a bit confused when the project was announced as: "... The Eclipse Foundation intends to use the exemplary implementation at eclipse.org to create a better user and member experience for downloads." The Foundation does intend to use the exemplary implementation at eclipse.org, but there is no guarantee that we will and the decision as to whether we will is the Foundation's to make, not the EPP project's to make. We have conditionally already decided, i.e., if this stuff works the way it is planned to work, then we'll probably use it. But (and I keep saying this :-), it's not guaranteed. For example, we don't even require Eclipse Foundation staff to use Eclipse as a development environment - we all do, of course, but only because the tools are so good.When I read the statement above, it led me to believe that EMO had already decided to roll out the technology as the way for Eclipse users to download software from Eclipse.org. Cheers, Bjorn --
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