[news.eclipse.technology.kepler] Re: more information

[John Casey <jcasey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The overall goal is to provide a better way to manage the development 
process from within Eclipse. Basically, we're interested in providing:

1. better support for third-party build tools

2. better support for continuous integration servers and other related 
build-server concepts

3. a better way to maintain the infrastructure related to a project 
(wiki, issue tracker, SCM, etc.)

4. and finally, a better way to allow a developer to participate in 
multiple projects at once (more than just issue tracking + SCM; I'm 
talking about forum/mailing list conversations that cross-link, etc.)

One of the side effects of all this thought has been to also attempt to 
define a unified project model (mainly an API), that all sorts of tools 
can use as a common base of project information but can also add their 
own tool-specific configuration sections to. This is where the most 
discussion is happening currently within Kepler, I believe.

Systems like Gump would appear in the second item above.

HTH,

John

Nick Chalko wrote:
> John Casey wrote:
> > Since you have some familiarity with Gump, would you be willing to put 
> > some time into this integration, once we have the framework to support 
> > it?
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> I should be able to, I am looking for a new OSS project.
>
> But I guess I need to read the proposal again.  What are we going to 
> produce?
>
> R,
> Nick