[higgins-dev] FW: [eclipse.org-project-leadership] Your project's descri

[Paul Trevithick <ptrevithick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: FW: [eclipse.org-project-leadership] Your project's description in the new Eclipse Forums

Mary/all,

We need a better plan for dealing with the Higgins web forum [1]. Since we pay so little attention to newsgroup/web forum, we’re giving the impression that the project is inactive [2]. I’m sure Werner Keil was trying to be helpful, but his response doesn’t reflect the reality of the activity in Higgins. All the activity is in higgins-dev. Also, the forum’s tagline “Higgins Open Source Identity Framework” isn’t helpful (see Wayne’s email below). We should update it after we figure out a better plan here.  Thoughts?

--Paul

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=55&S=50fccc34495b614423865869ba36e054
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=2801&start=0&S=50fccc34495b614423865869ba36e054

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From: Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Mailing list for all people involved in Eclipse project management <eclipse.org-project-leadership@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:31:02 -0700
To: <eclipse.org-project-leadership@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Rizzo <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [eclipse.org-project-leadership] Your project's description in the new Eclipse Forums

I am posting this note on behalf of Eric Rizzo. Eric's name is mostly
likely very familiar to you if you spend any time in the newsgroups or
the new forums. Eric works tirelessly to help people find their way
around Eclipse. I am grateful to Eric for taking this initiative.

--
Now that Denis has deemed the new web forums "ready for prime time" I
wanted to point out that many of the projects need to update their
newsgroup descriptions in the portal (there is a "description" field in
the "newsgroup" entry). Many of the current descriptions are
non-descriptive and don't give the casual reader any idea of what the
project or its newsgroup/forum are about.

Project leads, please take a minute to see what your project's newsgroup
description looks like on the web forums page
(http://www.eclipse.org/forums/) and update it as necessary. Something
that I, personally, find annoying in newsgroup descriptions is the lack
of an explanation of what acronyms stand for (acronyms are often used
for Eclipse project names); similar for names like Glimmer or Hibachi,
which don't tell the user anything about the projects. (not to pick on
Glimmer or Hibachi; they just happen to be ones near the top of the list
that don't have descriptive descriptions).

Also remember that users might likely use their browser's search
function to find your group in that long list, so keep that in mind when
crafting the description.

An example of one that I think is good is JDT's description: "Questions
and technical discussions about how to use the Java development tools
(JDT)"

Again, the description text needs to be edited in the portal, NOT the
forums micro-site.

Any questions can be directed to me or Denis; I'm not subscribed to this
list so please copy me directly on any follow-ups.

Thanks,
Eric
Your Friendly Eclipse Community Volunteer
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