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

[Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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