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Re: [rt-pmc] Runtime platforms on the eclipse download page

On 6/23/2016 9:12 AM, Jesse McConnell wrote:
The definition of 'container' is so massively overridden these days the term hardly has meaning.

Yeah, exactly...which is why it doesn't make good selection criteria.


Taking a step back I hardly think that this download page (or any similar download page anywhere at eclipse) is going to make but a very small handful of people find a download they are not already looking for.

I disagree with this. I think it could be true for the download use cases Jetty/Jesse is mostly interested in (people looking for Jetty specifically...probably most likely to go to Maven central Jetty separate from Eclipse). But for other projects...e.g. ones that are relatively new extensions to OSGi frameworks, RCP, and/or Eclipse tooling such as ECF remote services and others...I don't think your analysis holds. In those cases their biggest problem is that no one knows about the work because it gets no exposure/promotion, and being viewed by more people can/does matter.

It does suggest to me that if a project like Jetty doesn't really get much benefit from being on the main download page (because everyone is looking elsewhere already) then perhaps it shouldn't be in the set of 5 selected projects that are on the download page.

Scott




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