Hi Wayne,
thank you for your quick reply and the valuable hints on how to improve the link with the community. You are certainly right that at the moment we have not achieved the amount of interaction with users that we aim for.
However, Marc and Florian are very active spreading the word about JWT. Unfortunately, the presentation submitted to the Eclipse Summit was declined, but as Marc pointed out there are some other presentations and articles on the way which will hopefully help to get some attention for JWT.
Concerning the use of the archive server: The packages were moved to the archive server just recently since we hoped to complete the work for the 0.5 release some weeks ago which was admittedly too early. In the future, we’re going to wait until the release is approved before doing so :)
Regards,
Christian
Hi Christian.
I've done a quick review
of the JWT project. It seems that the project has done a good job of making it
easy for interested parties to get involved with the project. Specifically, the
project's web site [1] is informative, but concise. Futher, you have provided
numerous sources of information about the project which should make it easy for
interested parties to figure out how to get involved. The project summary page
[2] appears to have all the required information (though the "Project
Plan" links don't provide any actual information).
I am concerned, however,
that there seems to be relatively little input into the project from outside of
the project's committers. All but one of the bugzilla entries against the
project appear to come from committers. The newsgroup [3] has very little
activity. There does seem to be a steady stream of downloads, but given the low
volume, it would be easy to theorize that they are coming from colleagues
within your respective companies.
It does seem that you are
doing some of what is required to engage with the community. You are certainly making
it easy for folks to get involved. However, the community will only get
involved if they know about you and I get the sense that you're not doing
enough to raise awareness of the project. At a minimum, you need to blog about
this. Consider creating a project blog and having it aggregated on Planet
Eclipse and aggregators in the BPM space.
I noticed that you appear
to be using the archive server to serve your downloads from the "All
Downloads" page [4]. Can you explain why? It is more typical to use the
download server as you appear to be doing with the link on your home page.
Can you please fix the
broken project plan links on the project summary page?
I would also like to see
some form of plan for more actively engaging the community and drawing them
into the project. What conferences are you presenting at? Are you blogging
about this technology? Are you planning to submit a talk proposal for ESE, or
EclipseCon 2009 (submissions open today)?
Is the JWT project working
with the STP project at all? Are there any/many interactions between the
projects? Is STP a potential permanent home for this project?
Thanks,
Wayne
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/jwt/
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=technology.jwt
[3] http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.technology.jwt
[4] http://wiki.eclipse.org/JWT_Downloads#Workflow_Editor_Version_0.4.0
Christian Saad wrote:
Hi Technology PMC,
We’d like to request your approval for the 0.5 release of the Java Workflow
Tooling (JWT) project. This release contains many bugfixes and UI additions
which will enhance user experience along with several new extension points
that will allow users to customize the workflow editing process to their own
needs.
Thanks,
Christian (JWT Committer)
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