[ews.eclipse.technology.desk] Technology PMC feedback

[Ed Burnette <ed.burnette@xxxxxxx>]

The Technology PMC has reviewed the latest proposal at its weekly 
meeting and decided the project is not ready to go forward at this time. 
Bjorn forwarded the following points they identified which would need to 
be addressed before proceeding with a Creation Review. Basically it 
boils down to lining up some more people who will commit to writing 
code, showing some on-going progress, and getting people who have 
non-Windows expertise to be involved. Post a note in the newsgroup if 
you can help with these points.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> 1.	As we read it, the version two proposal is not really
> different from the version one proposal other than you are
> the lead rather than Genuitec being the lead. Given that the
> version one proposal made no progress for months and months,
> we are not convinced that version two will do any better. For
> example, the proposal still lists three of the five initial
> committers from Genuitec (Jed is, effectively, from
> Genuitec), but the Genuitec developers didn't have time to
> work on version one, so what evidence do we have that they
> will have time to work on version two?
>
> 2.	Eclipse projects, even Technology projects, should have
> substantial on-going development activity. This project has
> some early activity - to build the initial proposed
> integrations - but the proposal does not describe an on-going
> activity. We would like the proposal to explain how the
> project will grow a community of users and developers, and
> how the project will have the technical scope to grow over time.
>
> 3.	We are concerned that this is a Windows-focused
> project. Clearly tight platform integration is an Eclipse
> goal, but it needs to be integration on all the platforms,
> not just on Windows. The proposal does not describe the
> expertise of the initial committers, so we extrapolated from
> the initial integrations that the committers expertise is
> Windows. There does not appear to be expertise with desktop
> Linux or on Mac OS X, so we are curious how the project
> intends to resolve this technical focus and project staffing issue.
>
> Please note that all four of us on the Technology PMC think
> the goals of this project are excellent - our concern is
> about how "real" and active the project will be.
>
> Thanks,
> Bjorn