[wtp-dev] It's that time again

[Nitin Dahyabhai <nitind@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And what time is that you might ask?  Why, time to put together this 
milestone's New and Noteworthy documents, of course!

I've placed a preliminary M5 page at 
http://eclipse.org/webtools/development/news/0.7M5.html and will link the 
main N&N index to it when we actually declare M5.  I'd like to make a 
change in our format so that pages are assembled for each component and 
not for each team.  For example, SSE has individual pages for the CSS, 
DTD, JSP, and SSE components instead of a set of pages for everything 
contributed by the SSE team.  Accordingly, since no visible changes were 
made to the HTML component, it won't have a page this time around.

I'd like for component teams to prepare any pages they want by the time we 
declare M5 and try to follow the same format as the Eclipse SDK's pages 
(the SSE pages are relatively easy to rework as well).  Try to take your 
screenshots using the default appearance for whichever SDK-supported O.S. 
you prefer.  This is essentially end-user documentation.  Keep the 
audience in mind and remember that if the end user doesn't see anything 
new and different, it's likely not a candidate for mentioning.  The same 
goes for bug-fixes to existing function.  Don't worry about linking in 
between components right now--there will be a lot of churn just putting 
the pages together so I'll handle it at the same time as I update the main 
N&N page.

I know that it's a lot to ask while we're all testing and squashing the 
last of our bugs, but this is one of the first things users see when 
looking at our platform and it's our earliest chance to wow them with what 
we've been working on for the past couple of months.  Besides, with the 
Million Download Challenge going on, they might want some reading material 
while they're downloading WTP.

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Nitin Dahyabhai