Hi,
During the next few days a project proposal will be submitted 
to the Eclipse Foundation targeting the creation of “PDT Incubator” project. You 
can read more details about this proposal at the bottom of this 
email.
Since some of you contribute code and patches to the Eclipse 
PDT I would like to welcome you and ask if you are willing to join this project 
and be a committer/mentor that is maintained under the Eclipse Foundation 
projects.
 
If you are interested joining the initial committers or 
mentors list, please reply to this email with a “+1” with a short bio and a 
short description on your experience with Eclipse/PDT. You can also add your own 
comments regarding this proposal.
 
Regards,
Roy
 
 
The PDT Incubator is a 
proposed open source project under the PDT 
Project.
 
This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in 
the Eclipse Development Process document) and is written to declare its intent 
and scope. This proposal is written to solicit additional participation and 
input from the Eclipse community. You are invited to comment on and/or join the 
project. Please send all feedback to the 
http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.tools.pdt 
newsgroup.
 
Background
 
The goal of the PDT Incubator project is to experiment with 
alternative ideas and technologies for enhancing and complementing PDT. For 
example, the addition of Smarty source editing, Aspect oriented programming PDT, 
are possible areas of investigation for the PDT Incubator. In addition to this, 
the Incubator is also intended to serve as a forum for interested third parties 
and a place for the development of additional components and tools for PDT 
outside of the restrictions of the PDT project itself. This includes the 
development of additional source editing improvements and other components 
improvements. Incubator components are intended to stay in the Incubator until 
they are mature enough to be integrated into the main development 
stream.
 
Initial Work 
Areas
 
APDT – Aspect PDT
The Aspect PHP Development Tools (APDT) [1] project provides 
Eclipse platform based tool support for AOSD with PHP. It has been developed by 
William Candillon during the Google Summer of Code 2008 [2] and mentored by 
Michael Spector.
 
SmartyPDT 
The SmartyPDT [3] Editor adds a Smarty support for PDT. 
Smarty is a template engine for PHP, this project enables users to develop 
Smarty projects utilizing the power of PDT development tool. It has been 
developed by William Candillon and Roy Ganor.
 
 Out of 
Scope
 
Work in the PDT Incubator will be constrained to only those 
efforts that we expect to graduate (i.e. the code will eventually become part of 
PDT). It is not a playground for arbitrary development efforts. In addition, we 
should ensure that investment in the incubator never leaves the community with 
the perception that it is coming at the cost of important work on the PDT 
project.
 
 
Mentors
·         
Current committers of the 
Eclipse PDT project
·         
???
 
Initial 
Committers
·         
??? 
 
The initial committers will be all committers on the current 
incubator components. Commit rights will be handled on a component-by-component 
basis.
 
 
[1] http://code.google.com/p/apdt/
[2] 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008
[3] code.google.com/p/smartypdt/