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Re: [wtp-dev] I'll give you two guesses what this email is about, considering we're near the end of a milestone and it's from me

It's (past) time to put together the New and Noteworthy for our newest milestone!  The place holders for M5 are in the web site repository and you can browse the in-progress version at http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/news/3.3M5/ .  As usual, if a project doesn't have anything written up when I go to update our news feed, I'll just comment out their link to it from the overview page.  Let's try and have this ready by the morning of the 1st.

To set your workspace up to edit your project's contents, committers should connect to the web site CVS repository at :extssh:dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/org.eclipse and either check out the contents of the /www/webtools folder, or just the folder for this milestone in /www/webtools/development/news/3.3M5.  Like the rest of our Indigo-ized web site, we use a PHP-based XSL transformation on the XML contents to generate our web pages.  The transform means we're not all editing individual web pages directly, helping us keep a consistent layout.   Opening the XML files locally in a web browser will allow you to see them in a rendered form, minus the Indigo styling.  The pages themselves are loosely organized around groups of projects, but that's always changeable if desired.


Remember that good content for the New and Noteworthy includes additions that users will see, and hopefully, be delighted with.  Screenshots are a must.  Showcasing the myriad of the platforms we work on is good, but be mindful to crop your images so that the final web page fits in the display resolutions our users would have.  API additions or changes, significant version number updates, and especially migration information should instead be recorded in a yet-to-be-created "New Help for Old Friends VI" document--did you know that anyone with a Bugzilla ID can go ahead and create this page ?


As always, if there are any questions, let me know.

Regards,
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Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse WTP Source Editing and JSDT
IBM Rational

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