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

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Skerrett wrote:

>> Just to chime in with a neutral outsider's opinion:
> 
> Thank you for doing so.  I actually wish more people would express their
> opinion and you certainly are not an outsider.
> 
>>
>> Perhaps a compromise would be to allow EPP to be a little more broad in
>> its acceptance policies, but to NOT include all available packages on the
>> default Downloads page.
> 
> The goal is that EPP will produce a set of framework that other people can
> use to build their own packages.   We then create a 'interesting packages'
> page from the download page that lists all the available packages.   Those
> packages would be created and tested outside of EPP, so they would not
> follow these policies.

And in the end the download stats of those 'interesting packages' would be
another input source of what people want. That's very worthfull information
to adjust and to change the EPP package content accordingly.

But if we are going to provide such a page, we have to ensure that it
scales. How do you find the best available package, if there are a few
hundreds of them? How do we distribute this huge amount of data?

I expect that many of this kind of questions need to be solved, but it
definitely is worth the effort. Maybe in cooperation with Bjorn's plan of a
standard project download page?

Markus