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[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Experience behind Eclipse

I'm not sure what you meant by experience.
Basically some of the team members developping eclipse have been developping IDEs, VMs and such since late 80's (Visual age smalltalk, visual age java, visual age micro edition, see faq #3 - Where did Eclipse come from?).


I don't know the numbers of developers that were involved in these projects, but be sure that we did not improvise ourselved platform developers.
You can also look at the bios of the PMC members to see that the people leading the platform are not new to the business either.


If your question is to know whether it is risky to ship on top of eclipse RCP, note that there is already several companies shipping products on top of eclipse including IBM with the new Lotus Workplace.

There is also all the experience of the members of the eclipse consortiums as well as the experience of the community. It is also key to note that the experience of the eclispe project is also the experience *you* bring in by participating in discussions, contributing code, leading projects, etc.

PaScaL

Daniel Krügler wrote:


Pascal Rapicault schrieb:

eclipsefaq.org
See faq 3.

PaScaL

Daniel Krügler wrote:

Hello Eclipse developers,

in our project team we have very good experiences with Eclipse
and we would like to use it as base of our own RCP app.

Now there exist critical voices, which ask, how many experience
(in the terms of men-years) is behind Eclipse?

Thank you very much,

Daniel Krügler



Hello Pascal,

thank you for your answer. You probably mean faq 2, don't you?
In fact I already searched in the faq, but I only got the information,
that Eclipse has a 15 month history. Further on I found in the statistics page the date "Active commiters 62". Is it feasible to
extrapolate from this that the project has experience of roughly
77 men-years???


I apologize for these questions, but the corresponding answers are
important for us.

Thank you for your patience,

Daniel