Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] FW: Program committee feedback

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Aurélien Pupier <aurelien.pupier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Program committee feedback
> Date: December 5, 2011 10:03:01 AM PST
> To: speakers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can you please provide feedback on my two declined talks:
> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/bonita-studio-integrating-
> challenging-eclipse-technologies-eclipse-rcp-application-through-

One problem I found with this talk is it felt a little
unfocused. It claims it will cover build, releng, MDD, Scrum, Code gen,
Hudson/Jenkins, QA, JUnit, Selenium, SWTBot, Jetty, JDT, Data tools, and
Nebula, all in a 35 minute talk. Attempting to be this broad means it will
probably only cover each topic superficially. How much can the attendees
learn about each of these topics in that time? I think a better recipe
would be to cover two or three of the most interesting design challenges
they faced in building their RCP app and focusing the talk on those. Another
drawback is we were looking to see Eclipse 4-based case studies in the
Platform category because from attendee feedback this is where the most
interest is.

> https://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/memory-analyzer-tool-
> easier-it-looks-and-straightforward-solution-spot-those-annoying-commo

As Ian said, this one barely didn't make the cut in
the very tight tools category. One downside for me is that MAT is several
years old and it wasn't clear to me there was much new here. The speaker
doesn't seem to be a MAT committer so we taking a bit of a gamble that
he knows the subject matter well enough to represent it at EclipseCon.

John