Re: [tools-pmc] Newsreader project

[Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Looking at the current top level projects list, I don't think that
> there is currently a project that is a good fit for tools like this.
> Ideally there should be a "Social" top level project that would fit
> tools like this one and could also hold the "Social" subprojects from
> ECF like the chat clients and the IRC client and possible future
> projects like a twitter client. I have some other ideas about this top
> level project. However, at the moment, the Tools project seems the
> best.
>   
I am not so fussed about which top-level project at the moment and 
generally we don't start top-levels until there is a very clear 
direction and community.

Also we should keep separate (to a certain degree) which technology is 
being used.  That is, just cause the project *might* be in mylyn (for 
example) does not mean that one automatically has to install mylyn to 
make it work.  That all depends on the code dependencies.  We have 
swaths of Equinox that don't need the Equinox framework at all or can 
run on other frameworks.

Your comments around Social and ECF actually lead me to believe that 
while the implementation does not necessarily use ECF, ECF is currently 
a focal point at Eclipse for social/communications things.  So perhaps 
this is better suited to being part of ECF with an aim to at some point 
growing a broader social community.  Failing that, I personally suggest 
a project in Technology.  Technology is the usual spot to start projects 
that have no other obvious home.

Jeff