[news.eclipse.technology.kepler] Re: Thoughts on a Common Project Model

[Philip Dodds <philip.dodds@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-07-12 16:12:21 -0400, Philip Dodds <philip.dodds@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> User-Agent: Unison/1.7.9
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> We have been doing some thinking on creating an extensible common 
> project model.
>
> Why do we need a common project model?
>
> A large part of providing a holistic view of the community resources 
> and technologies in play within a project is understanding broader 
> information about the project.  The Maven styled pom.xml adds a rich 
> set of information that can be used to understand both the structure of 
> the project, its dependencies but also additional information that 
> would support a developer looking to work in a loosely coupled manager 
> with a project.

Continuing this thread of thought -

Would calling it a collaboration model rather than either common or 
community model.  Since the aim of gather information about the project 
(everything from mailing lists through to some level of information 
about its dependencies and even possiblity its source structuring).

The thought here that standard structuring of this information would 
lower the barrier to entry for collaboration both as a co-developer but 
also a consumer of the project?

P