[news.eclipse.technology.ecf] some progress

[Alexander Malic <alexander.malic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi again,

i realized that i'm only able to share my editor with a buddy, that i've added to my list and that has accepted my request.

here are some issues that i have/had with ecf:

- first of all, i allways need to manually connect to the servers. some option to automatically connect to a server would be great
- i still have some connection credentials that didn't work, but there is no possibility to delete them. a preferences page with all the accounts would be great
- adding a contact can be done via add contact. when the contact is not online, there is no message or behaviour indicating that the contact was successfully added
- when a contact accepts a request, eclipse needs to be restarted, to make the share-editor option available
- if i share a project with someone, the other side should be able to choose if he/she wants the project to be shared in the actual workspace or choose some other workspace -> the project will be copied to the workspace
- there is no description how to set up the collaboration. i just found some screenshots showing that the connection-url starts with ecftcp://...
- the "search contact" option closes when entering a search-term and pressing the "enter"-key instead of searching for the search-term
- there's no ecf user documentation. something like the buckminster-book would be great

still i think that collaboration in eclipse is (can) be a great thing and that ecf is moving in the right direction. but there has some work to be done to make it really popular to non ecf-developers. i think if people start using ecf for collaboration in their development team, they will also start using it in their projects.

please make it easier to start with ecf!!!

maybe someone has some suggestions on this.

thanks in advance