[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: PDT falling behind on purpose?

[Nick Boldt <codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Try this for an experiment:

i. Offer to fix a bug in both projects, and see who takes you up on the 
offer. (Or ask both projects to participate in Bug Day[1], then sign up.)

ii. After a few contributions (bug reports, wiki contributions, patch 
submissions) to either / both projects, ask to be made a committer. See 
what happens.

IMHO, the project that encourages and accepts contributions from the 
community and fosters committer diversity is the one that deserves the 
bigger adopter community.

The two camps are not about to join forces any time soon. But you can 
offer to join one or both to help them out and build a better PHP dev 
experience for yourself and for others.

Nick

[1]http://wiki.eclipse.org/BugDay#2008

Michael Spector wrote:
> Lester Caine wrote:
> > A lot of time was spent TRYING to get PHPEclipse adopted as the PHP 
> > platform for Eclipse - and I spent time on that exercise, but 
> > 'commercial interests' have a bigger pull :(
> > IMAGINE where PHPEclipse would be today if one tenth of the time spent 
> > reinventing it in PDT and been spent simply improving it?
>
> I don't understand why cannot these two projects coexist? Why not let 
> people choose preferable IDE as long as each of these IDE has its own 
> features? Lets hundreds of volunteers from over the world work hard on 
> both projects in order to make them better - the final decision will be 
> up to user!