[news.eclipse.technology.ecomm] Re: Ecomm --> Eclipse Communications Fra

["John F. Patterson" <john_patterson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott:

While I agree with your desire to change the name and I like a lot of 
the changes to the description, I was hoping there would be a little 
more conversation before the name got changed.

My specific problem is that the term communication seems overly 
general.  Do you expect to support email?  Do you expect to support 
netnews or discussion forums?  So far, my impression has been that you 
are focused on "realtime" collaboration.  Is that correct?  I could be 
wrong.  I have seen the term asynchronous used in a few places.  I have 
interpreted this as a reference to asynchronous messaging (as opposed to 
query/response) rather than a reference to asynchronous groupware.

Without a doubt ECF is better than ecomm, so I'm not really complaining 
too much.  Nevertheless, if this proposal is primarily aimed at realtime 
communications rather than communications in general, then shouldn't 
that be reflected in the name?

jfp

Scott Lewis wrote:

> Greetings Folks,
>
> FYI...in response to community feedback, this project proposal has
>
> 1) A new name:  'Eclipse Communications Framework' (ECF)
> 2) A revised proposal:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/ecomm/index.html
>
> We think that this revision adds some detail and provides more 
> clearly-articulated focus for the project.
>
> Please let us know what you think.
>
> Thanksinadvance,
>
> Scott