[birt-pmc] Have we done anything on "Community Testing" of new platforms

[Michael Fox <foxm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A few meetings ago we had discussed
setting up some wiki pages for people outside of Actuate to test BIRT on
other platforms.  The idea was that Actuate would post their test
process, and somebody willing to do the testing could post what they tried
and what worked and didn't work.  

Have we created these pages yet?  
 I know of one team within IBM that might be willing to do some work
on AIX support, and a friend of mine outside of IBM is doing some experimenting
with Solaris.

As planning for the June 2008 release
(Ganymede?) progresses, I think we ought to raise the platform and software
version issue with Eclipse.  There should be a set of supported platforms
that all participating Eclipse projects agree to support.  With the
amount of inter-dependence between Eclipse projects, letting each project
decide on its own will cause more confusion in the community.  An
example would be java 5 support in Europa.  BIRT wasn't planning on
requiring it, until we were surprised and forced to by WTP and EMF deciding
without consulting us.  that isn't good.

        Mike