[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: Policies for EPP

[ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx (Ian Skerrett)]

> Although I applaud an effort to make these criteria public 
> (transparent), I question whether these/this set of policies make the 
> process more 'open'.  Basically, as below IMHO it's a set of (quite 
> restrictive) exclusion criteria...which doesn't seem very open to me.

Scott, when I said 'open' I was not thinking that the packages would be 
open to any project being included.   In fact, I believe the EPP packages 
should be kept as small as possible and only add new features/projects if 
there is a really good reason.   This is because I believe if the EPP 
packages become a 'catch-all' for all Eclipse projects, they will become 
too big and meaningless for the end user.

However, I'd like to stress this is just my opinion so you and others 
should be encouraged to comment.