Re: [modeling-pmc] Modeling Project Overhaul

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

"News" is certainly a disaster area at present. A good feed from the 'portal' might break the pain barrier that encourages the current obsolete rubbish.

IMHO, most Modeling projects share the quite good modeling infrastructure for download pages that allows sensible categorisation, ordering and archiving with extra surrounding notes, whereas most non-Modeling projects that I try to download from have poor to non-existent downloads pages. Projects that have 'better' modeling pages for users provide what again IMHO are very poor inconsistent pages for Eclipse committers, and I suspect committers are the main consumers of download pages. It would be good to have a common Foundation infrastructure that automatically presented downloads and update pages; provided projects follow the naming practices that are already shared across many projects.
c.f. Miles Parker's plea for any standard updates naming policy.

    Regards

            Ed Willink
    

On 16/07/2012 16:44, Wayne Beaton wrote:

Keeping information current in some automated way is high on my list for the new Project Management Infrastructure.

Does it make sense to add "news items" to the generated pages? We can just automatically expire old news and just now show a "news" section if there is no current news.

Is there anything else that we can add to the Project Management Infrastructure (e.g. [1]) that can get more Modeling projects out of the business of building their own project websites or maintaining parallel modeling-project-website-specific metadata? Unless they really want to have their own project website, of course...

Wayne

[1] http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.emf.emf

On 07/14/2012 01:02 AM, Ed Merks wrote:

 

 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...

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