[eclipse.org-planning-council] Release train wiki pages

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I finally got tired today of trying
to remember for the Nth time when a particular simultaneous release came
out, or the exact order of releases. So, I created a simple wiki page with
a high level summary of the existing simultaneous releases:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Simultaneous_Release

It was surprisingly hard to track down
all that release information, so I think it will prove useful. Feel free
to edit/correct/augment this page, although I think it's best to keep it
as short as possible so that it provides a quick "at a glance"
summary.  Also with the help of Remy Suen the wiki template wizard,
I added a simple succession box at the bottom of each release main wiki
page so that it is easy to navigate between the different releases.

One thing I noticed while doing this,
is that we have many terms for our release train: "simultaneous release",
"coordinated release", "annual release", "release
train", etc. I think we should strive to use a consistent term to
avoid confusion for the wider community, and I somewhat arbitrarily picked
"simultaneous release" for this wiki page. If other council members
have thoughts on this please chime in - we can perhaps discuss at the next
call if it proves to be worthy of debate.

I was also asked if it is correct to
say "The Eclipse Foundation produces a simultaneous release".
I think this is right, as I believe the planning council and committer
members are "part of" the Eclipse Foundation. We tend to equate
"Eclipse Foundation" with "Eclipse Management Organization
(EMO)", but I think these are distinct entities (the EMO being a small
but important element of the overall Foundation). Am I splitting hairs
here? Would it be better to say "The Eclipse community produces a
simultaneous release"? This doesn't seem right either, as anybody
using or talking about Eclipse is in some way part of the Eclipse community.
Please dive in to correct me here...

John