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The Eclipse Foundation has engaged with UX experts to review the
initial user experience with Eclipse. This includes the website,
download, and installation process. Ideally, we'd like to look at
the Welcome page as well, but I'm pretty sure that we don't have the
resources right now to actually implement any changes.
Pascal is working on code changes and tests to various parts of
Eclipse (p2, launcher, tycho) including changing the Mac layout and
packaging as a .dmg file. It would be great if Pascal can elaborate
on the call.
We've the UX experts on the Oomph Installer. Eike and--with help
from Yatta--put some serious UX work into the installer. Eike
presented it to the UX folks last week. I am concerned that some of
the the project descriptions (e.g. targets) in the Oomph repository
have gotten stale. Keeping these up to date is a challenge that we
(collectively) need to address.
The "profiles" work that we've been investigating is an extension to
the Oomph notion of packages and configurations. A profile is a
higher level concept that combines the package definition with the
workspace configuration. The idea is to make it possible for users
to snapshot and share their profiles. This also includes the ability
to capture and share preferences. I'm not happy with the term
"profile" as it suggests personal information (e.g. Facebook
profile), but we haven't come up with an alternative. We've decided
to defer profiles, as there just isn't enough time for Mars.
Buildship (Gradle) CQs have been created and we have code. The
Planning Council has rejected their inclusion in Mars. We've engaged
to Tools PMC to attempt an appeal. Any ideas you might have are
welcome.
I'd like to talk a bit about the composition of the "Eclipse
Project" Marketplace.
Wayne
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Wayne Beaton
@waynebeaton
The Eclipse Foundation
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