[technology-pmc] Re: Technology PMC review of PTP project

[Cliff Schmidt <cliffschmidt@xxxxxxxxx>]

One more thing:

Please update the PTP websites to the new Eclipse look and create the  
"project status infrastructure" files.  See the complete details here:
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status- 
infrastructure.php.

Thanks!

Cliff

On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Cliff Schmidt wrote:

> Greg,
>
> As a representative of the Technology PMC, I'd like to offer some  
> feedback on the PTP project to you (as the project lead) and to all  
> the other PTP committers.  I'm also volunteering to be your PMC  
> contact and project mentor.
>
> Overall, we believe that the project is on the right track.  User  
> questions seem to be getting answered, bugs are making their way  
> into Bugzilla (although not as actively recently), and there  
> appears to be a healthy collaboration on the mailing lists.
>
> The community size still appears to be small, but that may be  
> related to the pre-1.0 maturity and the domain of the project (not  
> having as broad of a potential audience as more common developer  
> tools).  However, we have a few thoughts on some actions that might  
> help to grow the strength of the PTP community:
>
> * Make it easy for users to get started either through tools (an  
> installer) or through detailed checklists and instructions.  I've  
> noticed that your project has made some improvements in this area  
> in the last couple weeks.  Great job -- keep it up!
>
> * As has been done in the last couple weeks, continue to make sure  
> documents linked from the web site are relatively up-to-date.  For  
> instance, make sure the Release Plan, Design Document, and Work  
> Tasks reflect where the project is today.
>
> * Good job with planning a demo and talk at EclipseCon -- make sure  
> attendees know how easy it is for them to get involved and help  
> make the project better.
>
> * Good job posting the minutes to the conference calls; however,  
> you could do a better job with letting people know in advance the  
> time/date and call-in info for the meeting.  Consider making sure a  
> notice is sent to the newsgroup and mailing list earlier than the  
> day of/before the meeting.  You might also even consider posting  
> the next meeting time/date on the site's home page.   
> Teleconferences can be very useful, but they can also inadvertently  
> exclude interested potential contributors if it's not obvious that  
> everyone is invited to attend and provided enough notice to do so.
>
> * Your contributors page (http://www.eclipse.org/ptp/ 
> contributors.html) has a long list of "Supporters".  I assume this  
> list was put together when the project was proposed.  Since the  
> project is now well underway, you might consider getting back in  
> touch with some of the organizations to see if they are now  
> interested in getting involved to any extent.
>
> Cliff