Audience Member
Title
| Description
| Identified Needs
|
Consumer
| • anyone who downloads Eclipse
tools but does not use Eclipse support resources
| • want to use Eclipse (download
specific Eclipse tool, specific information)
• articles, white papers, technology
introductions
|
User
| • person who makes use of one
or more Eclipse projects (tools) to perform some function including support
resources
| • how to start a project (write
programs)
• about the foundation
• membership information
• Ask for help / read about their tools
• Learn about (via push technology) updates to their tools
• Learn about (via push and pull) the future release plans for the
tools they are interested in
• Learn about places they can purchase solutions to problems that
Eclipse.org does not offer
|
Committer
| • Contributor who works on one
or more Eclipse projects with the ability to write to Eclipse's CVS repositories
| • Self management of their content
within the context of a general framework
• how to start a project
• Find out about (and
post) release plans
• Find out about (and
post) architecture documents
• Find out about cross project information of interest, such as
release and architectural and API changes, probably via a push technology
• Read and post blogs, wikis, and other iteratative information
schemes to generate a collaborative discussion and documentation about
the project and its code
• In general, increase the utility and validity of each bit of information
posted
• Filter out "please
help me" user requests
|
Contributor
| anyone who provides content on
the Eclipse website including those who:
• make a single news posting
• who work full-time contributing
code to one or more Eclipse (but who for whatever reason are not a committer)
• sends an email to a mailing list,
• files a bug using Bugzilla
| • Self management of their content
within the context of a general framework
• how to start a project
• Find out about (and
post) release plans
• Find out about (and
post) architecture documents
• Find out about cross project information of interest, such as
release and architectural and API changes, probably via a push technology
• Read and post blogs, wikis, and other iteratative information
schemes to generate a collaborative discussion and documentation about
the project and its code
• In general, increase the utility and validity of each bit of information
posted
• Filter out "please
help me" user requests
|
Plug-In Developer
| • has an interest in building
and/or deploying one or more Eclipse plug-ins with the purpose of extending
the capabilities of the Eclipse Platform
| • how to start a project
• Self management of their content within the context of a general framework
• how to start a project
• Find out about (and
post) release plans
• Find out about (and
post) architecture documents
• Find out about cross project information of interest, such as
release and architectural and API changes, probably via a push technology
• Read and post blogs, wikis, and other iteratative information
schemes to generate a collaborative discussion and documentation about
the project and its code
• In general, increase the utility and validity of each bit of information
posted
• Filter out "please
help me" user requests
|
Corporate Member
| • Companies that support Eclipse
and have joined the Foundation as an add-in provider and/or associate member
| • provide company
profile surrounding my membership
|
Member
| • Committer who has joined the
foundation as a voting member of the committer member class |