Re: [technology-pmc] Newsreader

[Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx>]

haha I was pressing F5 a lot the last few days. There was a rather
extensive mail from Scott Lewis and I did reply on your mail. Didn't
you catch that?

Best regards,

Wim

In the mean time, I also saw something on Denis' screen:
http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/eclipsewebmaster/2009/05/29/hey-denis-what-is-that-on-your-screen/



On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Eric Rizzo<eclipse-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I must say that I'm disappointed by the lack of any response to this thread
> from either the ECF folks or the rest of my Technology PMC compadres.
> Is it just that everyone is busy with Galileo? Or is there really no
> interest in embedding a newsgroup client into Eclipse?
>
> Does ECF have nothing to say about the possibility of this falling under
> their umbrella?
>
> Does nobody think a general "Community Outreach" project with real
> technology deliverables (like a news reader) is worthwhile?
>
> I was hoping this would spark some discussion...
>
> Eric
>
>
> Eric Rizzo wrote:
>>
>> Wim Jongman wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Technology PMC,
>>>
>>> I have created an Eclipse based newsreader and I would like that to be
>>> part of Eclipse. Do you think a newsreader would fit in the Technology
>>> project?
>>>
>>> I was first directed to the Tools project but Tools thought it should
>>> either be Technolgy or EFC.
>>>
>>> Here is a link to a small movie and a screenshot of the software.
>>>
>>> http://screencast.com/t/xJVwt3lgMPD
>>> http://screencast.com/t/iJHIVdpZv
>>>
>>> The discussion on the Tools list can be found here:
>>> http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/tools-pmc/
>>
>> Cool! It looks to be a somewhat complete NNTP client, but does it
>> include message composition or is it only reading/browsing? How about
>> searching? In other words, what parts are complete and what parts still
>> need to be implemented?
>>
>> My idea for a broader project are centered around the questions of "how
>> can we better engage the user community?" I know at least Wayne and I
>> have been thinking about that for a while, and I think that there are
>> several related things that we could provide in the Eclipse workbench
>> that would reach out to the users and pull them in as contributors. In
>> no particular order, my ideas so far are:
>> * Newsgroup client
>> * IRC client (I think ECF already has this?)
>> * More obvious "Enter a bug or feature request" (Mylyn contributes a
>> menu option currently, but I don't think many people know about it and I
>> don't know how simple it is to use)
>> * Embedded browsing of the Resources content from www.eclipse.org
>> * Embedded search of www.eclipse.org
>>
>> I think that the newsgroup client is, by far, the best of these ideas,
>> and I'm thrilled that there is Wim's project to use as a starting point.
>> But I also am pretty confident that unless it is shipped in the base
>> platform (or at least the EPP packages), it won't get wnough traction
>> and visibility to reach all of those users who don't participate now.
>>
>> What do the other PMC members think about this broader vision for a
>> "community involvement" tech project? Any ideas for other things that
>> would fit into such a project? Does the idea have legs, or would we
>> better off running with just the news client?
>>
>> Wim, is the source for your newsreader available somewhere?
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>
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