Eclipse Project Status Infrastructure

(1) The Project Status Infrastructure

(2) Using the Infrastructure

R All projects are required to use the standard left menu on the project home page. See the detailed, but easy, instructions for how to make that left menu appear.

(3) Updating the Data

The project meta-data is maintained by project committers via the portal. Here is a cheatsheet for how to update each of pieces of information:

Where	What	Data Storage w/ Link to How to Update
/projects/ page	Project Name	projectname in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Info Page	Standard format page for all projects
	Phase	Foundation internal database. Email emo@
	Home Page	projecturl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Newsgroup	newsgroup.name in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Mailing List	mailinglist.name in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Wiki	wikiurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	IP Log	iplogurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
standard project info page (For a visual view of this table, take a look at the annotated screenshot.)	Name	Foundation internal database. Email emo@
	Download	downloadsurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Description	descriptionurl in the project meta data. Use the portal. Should be an html paragraph or two (recommended). If the url points to an eclipse.org website page, we attempt to extract the midcolumn contents as the paragraph.
	Logo	logourl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Commits Activity	sourcerepository in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Newsgroups	newsgroup.* in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Mailing Lists	mailinglist.* in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Source Repository	sourcerepository.* in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Committers	Foundation internal database. Email emo@ . Activity is taken from the commits explorer driven by sourcerepository in the project meta data. Use the portal. . Active is any commit activity in the last three months, participating is any in the last nine months. Company logos are shows for member companies of active committers.
	Leaders	Foundation internal database. Email emo@
	Update site	updatesiteurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Releases	release.* in the project meta data. Use the portal. Valid release status includes: scheduled, completed, tentative.
	Bugs	bugzilla in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Website	Foundation internal database. Email emo@
	Wiki	wikiurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Documentation	documentationurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Project Plan	projectplanurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
project plan page	Project Plan	projectplanurl in the project meta data. Use the portal. Also see the wiki documentation.
mailing lists page	Mailing List	mailinglist.* in the project meta data. Use the portal.
newsgroups page	Newsgroup	newsgroup.* in the project meta data. Use the portal.
timeline	Releases	release.* in the project meta data. Use the portal. Valid release status includes: scheduled, completed, tentative.
categories pages	Category	categories in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Description	paragraphurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Homepage	projecturl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Newsgroups	newsgroup.* in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Mailing Lists	mailinglist.* in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Wiki	wikiurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Docs	documentationurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
	Download	downloadsurl in the project meta data. Use the portal.
some top-level project pages	Name & Paragraph	???
old standard left menu	all	The older "standard left menu for all projects" has been deprecated. Please create your own project-specific left menu and include the single "link to standard project info" item at the top (see instructions).

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