Re: [mylyn-dev] [mylyn-pmc] proposed changes to project structure

[Mik Kersten <mik@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like the proposed changes.

The name of the "Task Focused Interface" project is a weird.  It's really the Context project that provides the focusing, the other projects are all about a task-oriented integration of Agile/ALM systems.  So I think we need a new name for that project.  Some ideas:
1) Platform: This really is the Mylyn platform.  It might be overly confusing with Eclipse Platform.
2) M4: New activity in this project will be directed by the way that we're thinking about M4
3) ALM: The closest we have to an industry standard name for this stuff.  For example, Microsoft divides Visual Studio into IDE stuff and ALM stuff (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/visual-studio-2013)

Much as I dislike acronyms, I'm leaning towards ALM.

Mik

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On Nov 7, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Florian Thienel <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> one of the main reasons for the Vex project to move from WTP to Mylyn was that Mylyn Docs provided a "home" for the topic of documentation. Since Vex is more about writing documents, this seemed to be a better fit for us.
> 
> The development of Vex runs mostly independent of the rest of Mylyn, so I don't have any strong feelings about the project structure. But I think the fact that there are some projects bothering with the topic of documentation should be reflected somehow. In contrast to the flattening of Docs into three sub-projects about the same topic, the Task Focused Interface sub-project will merge several topics.
> 
> But in general I am a fan of flat sturctures, so *+1* from my side for the elimination of one level.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Florian 
> 
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 07. November 2013 10:05 CET, Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: 
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to bring everyone's attention to a proposal posted by Gunnar.
>> We are proposing to flatten the structure of the top-level project by
>> promoting all sub-sub projects to sub-projects and consolidating some of
>> them. We would end up with the following structure under the top-level
>> project:
>> 
>> - Task Focused Interface (unifies Builds, Commons, Context, Reviews, Tasks,
>> and Versions)
>> - Docs (as it is today)
>> - Intent (move out of docs)
>> - VEX (move out of docs)
>> - Incubator (as it is today)
>> - Model Focusing Tools (move out of sub-structure, discuss future with
>> committers)
>> - R4E (move out of sub-structure, discuss future with committers)
>> 
>> Please join the discussion on this task:
>> 
>> 404270: create Mylyn m4 project proposal
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=404270
>> 
>> And maybe we can even revamp the website this time around :).
>> 
>> Steffen
>> 
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>> Mylyn Tasks Lead
>> http://tasktop.com
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