Project
Phoenix
Keen observers of
the Eclipse Foundation will have noticed that we have successfully completed
our hardware migration. There is still work to be done as we have a few more
servers to bring up. But we are now running the site on brand new
servers.
Many thanks to our
webmaster Denis Roy for several lost weekends and many long hours getting this
done. Thanks also to HP, IBM, Intel and Novell for donating the hardware and
software to run this new infrastructure. I think that thanks are also due to
Susan Iwai and others who kept the website up and its content fresh during the
past several years of wild growth in projects, members and
users.
The next stage is
to get started on improving the functionality of our website. I believe that
it is fair to say that everyone agrees that an overhaul is needed.
To this end, the
Eclipse Foundation has started Project Phoenix. We will be running
this project under open source rules of engagement, using Bugzilla, CVS and
other tools as applicable. What does this mean to you? Basically, that you
will have the opportunity to contribute to the project as it evolves. We need
the feedback, contributions and energy of the community for this project to be
a success.
A full scope
document will be posted soon, but a very high-level overview of the scope of
this project is: to improve the accessibility and quality of the
information needed by the community to perform their tasks and provide a
single access point to that information.
Note that
"community" as used here is a very broad set of constituents: consumers,
committers, contributors and members all have requirements which need to be
met by our new website.
The initial set of
committers on the project are listed below. We hope that we will have other
committers to add in the future.
- Mike Milinkovich
(project leader)
- Denis Roy
(webmaster)
- Susan Iwai
(content meister)
- Bjorn
Freeman-Benson (development process and committers)
- Ian Skerrett
(marketing and members)
- Andrew Geraghty
(web designer)
/mike
Mike Milinkovich
Executive
Director,
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
P.S.
For those of you who may have recently seen the Flight of the
Phoenix, any similarities between the project management styles of
Elliott and I are strictly coincidental :-D
