Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Performance, 3.8 versus 4.2

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Willink" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Cross project issues" <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 2:41:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Performance, 3.8 versus 4.2
> 
> Hi
> >>> What about e4-RCP folks outnumber the IDE nerds significantly
> >>> (amongst active contributors) so it's there call.
> >>> "The one that does the job decides!"
> >>
> This contrast makes no sense to me. The magic of Eclipse is that it
> has
> provided a generic platform  for a variety of purposes. So all the
> traditional users of Eclipse are IDE nerds.
> 
> I presume the e4-RCP folks develop their software on Eclipse, so they
> too are IDE nerds.
> 
> So all Eclipse committers are 'IDE nerds' and the IDE experience has
> been demonstrably degraded (attachment 206371 for bug 362718).
> 
> I feel strongly that we must revert to 3.x as the promoted
> environment
> until 4.x can reduce it's measured degradations to perhaps 10%.

So who here is signing for all the Platform UI bugfixes the current committers say they can't fix with 3.x codebase?

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team
> 
>      Regards
> 
>          Ed Willink
> 
> 
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