Why not have them "pull" any background technical
information rather than trying to "push" something that's bound to be incomplete
when it should just be one sentence. So what about this:
e4 is the community effort for building the next generation
of the Eclipse Platform. For any details, see the e4 project proposal
[1].
Of
course we should eventually prepare something on the web or the wiki that's more
current but still as informative as the project proposal. But for now, I still
find the proposal most appropriate for persons seeking a higher-level
understanding of e4.
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project
Lead, DSDP PMC Member
At a recent board meeting we had a discussion about e4 and what it
means to the Eclipse membership. The results were quite mixed with
widely differing opinions and thoughts. One thing that did come out was
the idea of polling the membership for some feedback. Mike Taylor, an
elected Solution Provider director on the board volunteered to poll the
Solution Providers on this topic and has set about creating a survey. As
part of this there should be a description of e4. I'll quote Mike on
this.
"I had seen the e4 description on the wiki page, but didn't find
it satisfying for the purposes of this survey. This survey will go to the
contact (often a "business" person) who is the designated EMO contact point
for a particular Solution Provider company. Its primary intent is to get a
high-level feeling for what people know and think about e4 right now. Its
not really designed to be a technical or feature survey."
It
would be great if as a community we can provide a brief (one paragraph)
description of e4. Something a bit deeper than "the next generation of
Eclipse" but a bit shallower than what's on the wiki.
This is a really
good opportunity to raise awareness of e4 and simultaneously get valuable
feedback and input.
Jeff
