[platform-ui-dev] Platform UI Needs You!

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Despite an ongoing and incredible amount
of excellent work by the Platform UI committers, a concern for the community
and the Eclipse PMC is still the performance and bugs that remain in Platform
UI, to the point where improving this deserved its own item in our Mars
plan [1].
Back in August, Daniel, the new Platform UI co-lead, asked the community
to participate in our Mars development milestones [2]
and to help us with the bugs that got prioritized [3]
by the Platform UI community [4].
So far, the response to this hasn't been what we had hoped. While we do
get a lot of contributions for new features and small changes (thanks!),
we'd like to ask the community to focus, for now, on helping to improve
the performance and the quality during the Mars release. Please keep in
mind that Platform UI is used by millions of people but is only maintained
by a small group of committers!

It would be great if we could fix the
top 50 bugs from that prioritized list [3]
together with your help! Of course, if you want to fix a bug that's above
50, that would also be appreciated. Note that we will do the M4 planning
in tomorrow's Platform UI meeting [4]
where everyone is welcome to join.

Please do not reply to this note with
a bug that you believe should have been in the prioritized list - instead,
either take the bug and provide a patch, or add a comment to the bug that
you'd like it to be (re-)considered for the prioritized list.

Thanks in advance for all your help!
Dani on behalf of the Eclipse PMC

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_5.xml#themes_and_priorities
[2] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-ui-dev/msg05850.html
[3] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Plan/4.5/Planning_Bugs
[4] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-ui-dev/msg05770.html
[5] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-ui-dev/msg05961.html