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[recommenders-dev] News Plugin - First Milestone

Hello,

Pawel has been hard at work on the News plugin as part of this year's Google Summer of Code.
We are happy to release the first milestone version today.

You can download it from the Recommenders milestone update site [1].

The plugin allows you to get the latest Eclipse related news directly in your IDE while being very unobtrusive.
It fetches RSS feeds and puts them in a small toolbar contribution that allows quick access to posted articles.


It is preconfigured to give you the latest news from planeteclipse.org and from the Eclipse Marketplace.
This is done using an extension point. Look below to see an example of how to use the extension point.

Users can also add other RSS feeds (even unrelated to Eclipse) using the News preferences.

We are looking for any feedback, especially if you have issues with the plugin or if you are missing features.
Please post your findings in our Bugzilla [2] under "Core".

Example extension point:
   <extension point="org.eclipse.recommenders.news.rcp.feed">
      <feed
            id="org.example.my.feed
            name="My Awesome RSS Feed"
            url="" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.example.org/blog/feed">"http://www.example.org/blog/feed"
            pollingInterval="60">
      </feed>
   </extension>

pollingInterval is in minutes.


[1] http://download.eclipse.org/recommenders/updates/milestones/
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/describecomponents.cgi?product=Recommenders


The plugin
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Johannes Dorn

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