Re: [rt-pmc] jetty and the release train

[Glyn Normington <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jesse

One reason Virgo joined the Juno release train was to enable it to participate in the Eclipse Long Term Support programme.

Regards,
Glyn

On 29 Jun 2012, at 14:04, Jesse McConnell wrote:

> After participating on the release train for the last couple of
> releases we are contemplating leaving it from here on out.  The effort
> in actually being on it doesn't seem to really pay off in any way so
> we are left asking ourselves why we put the effort into it.  It is not
> like we contribute UI elements really, nor is there much community
> interest in polishing the jetty wtp plugin and contributing that to
> the release train.  There are some StarterKit thing that Jeff McAffer
> and Hugues worked on but I certainly haven't seen much in the way of
> interest in that, certainly not in terms of being on the release
> train.  Since we have gone through the effort in producing the p2
> repositorieswe have now (though I personally question their value vs
> effort as well) and we have a handful of people that seem to use them
> we will continue producing those which equinox should be able to
> consume from for their release train.
> 
> Now this isn't a final decision on our part, I am just mentioning this
> since Juno is finally out and to solicit feedback on the potential
> decision.  Maybe there is some use case that we are not familiar with
> that makes being on the release train compelling, but right now we
> just don't see it.
> 
> cheers,
> jesse
> 
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