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[stp-dev] Fwd: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Improving Project UIs for Ganymede
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A note from Mike re User Interface Issues
The EMO would like to suggest the following course of action for
the Ganymede release with respect to user interface issues. I
believe Bjorn will be adding this to the agenda of the Planning
Council meeting at EclipseWorld.
Background and Motivation
· The Eclipse Board of Directors has added “…encourage
improved usability and out-of-box experience in the projects…” as a
strategic goal for 2008.
· Everyone agrees that we want to improve the UI “fit and
finish” for the projects in the release train.
· The current UI Guidelines document in draft is a large
document. It is over 80 pages of suggestions, guidelines, etc.
· There is no consensus that this “UI Guidelines” document
will be updated in time to be effective for Ganymede.
· What does appear to be possible for Ganymede would be the
“...strong application of a small set of rules.”
o The group has already created a draft list of the “top ten dos”
and the “top ten don’ts”
· There does appear to be a consensus that the UI WG can
help projects if they bring their UI to the WG for review.
Action Items
To make progress for Ganymede, the following action items will be
required by November 30th from the UI BP WG and the Planning Council:
· UI Best Practice Working Group
o The UI BP WG must finalize its “top-XX list of dos” and a “top-
YY list of don’ts” (the “UI Checklists”) by November 30th
§ Note that this can change in the future, but we need a frozen
list for the Ganymede release cycle.
o The UI BP WG will schedule reviews with all of the Ganymede
projects during Q1 and Q2 ’08.
§ This scheduling will be prioritized by the 0, +1, +2 grouping of
the projects, i.e., they will review the 0 projects first, then the
+1s, then the +2s, etc.
· The Planning Council will need to pass the following
rules for inclusion in Ganymede projects.
o Ganymede projects *must* comply with these “UI Checklists”.
o Ganymede projects *should* attempt to follow the draft UI
guidelines wherever possible.
o Ganymede projects *must* undergo a UI review with the UI
Working Group and demonstrate compliance with the UI Checklists to
the satisfaction of the WG.
§ UI WG concurrence with this compliance will be a Ganymede
Release Review check item
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
Office: +1.613.224.9461 x228
Mobile: +1.613.220.3223
mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
blog: http://milinkovich.blogspot.com
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