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

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Denis,

I would say that using download statistics as a measure of user 'want' 
is pretty tenuous.  Obviously, it systematically excludes the new (and 
innovative).

Scott


Denis Roy wrote:
> Scott Lewis wrote:
> > But this is precisely the point of my response to Ian's previous 
> > post...this is naturally based upon your assumptions about what the 
> > new user 'needs'.
>
>
> Actually, I see a correlation between the EPP packages and the top-10 
> popular projects on the downloads page [1]. Aside from BIRT and TPTP, 
> most of the popular projects are either a complement to an EPP package 
> or the core component of a package. Mylyn made the top-10 when 1.0 was 
> released some time ago. PDT wasn't 1.0 until recently, and I can see how 
> a PHP Developer package could be something useful for our users.
>
> So it appears to me that the EPP packages are based on the reality of 
> what the new user is likely to 'want', taking into account current 
> download trends and project popularity.
>
> [1] http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/