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+1 for me. Then, we need as said in your email Ed, a nice Modelling home page that introduce its content to users. Séb. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sébastien Gérard +33 (0)1 69 08 58 24 / +33(0)6 88 20 00 47 CEA Saclay Nano-INNOV Institut CARNOT CEA LIST DILS/Laboratoire
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De la part de Cédric Brun Hi Ed, As you may have noticed, I've been actively removing inactive committers from the various modeling projects. http://eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=modeling.pmf I'm in discussion with Yves Yang about PMF's future. I'm asking Epsilon to absorb the code base from Emfatic. The UML2 Tools code base will be absorbed as a GMF Tooling sample. Does anyone have concerns or comments about this list?
I.e., are there any projects I should add to or remove from this list? The primary point to consider is that consumers could not care less about hierarchical project structure. In fact, it's likely they don't even care about project structure, period. The consumers are interested in technologies and solutions that they can
apply to their problem domain. Overall, the current website is worse than useless in terms addressing consumer needs, though there are some notable project-specific exceptions. Mostly the website is confusing, out-dated, and disorganized resulting in an
overall bad impression of our excellent technologies. Picking an example close to home, have a look at the EMF home page. "News" is from 2009? What does that say about the project? In the end, that page more of a dirty laundry list than anything useful
for consumers. And it's not the only example of that... I think we need to start with a fresh website to ensure that we arrive at something that's usable
and easy to maintain so that we never again end up in the state we're in right now. I'd like throw out what have now in CVS and start with a new basis that is maintained in git. The focus will be on the "main" message on the landing page as well as
mechanisms for helping consumers find relevant technologies and solutions that address their specific needs. I'll also look at providing some exemplary project-specific home pages to set the stage. Wayne's approach of automatically rendering a home page
from project metadata is something I'll look at closely. Wouldn't it be nice to have a common and consistent way to determine project-specific source repos, p2 repos, forums, bug tracking, and so on? Of course I'll provide ample opportunity for others
to review the progress and to get involved. If any of you have have comments, criticisms, or concerns, I'm happy to hear about them. Regards,
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