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I've replied to this on the
eclipse.foundation newsgroup. From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Smith, Randy D Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:40 PM To: Cross project issues Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Now that the party is over... Third, and eclipse.newcomer has
highlighted this for me, can I make a plea for a “refresh” on Ed Burnette’s call
for discussion in eclipse.foundation under the “User experience” project
heading? When he first posted, there was a lot of silence, then a flurry, then
more silence… I think we were all too intent on getting Callisto out to consider
“what next”. Now that we’re at “next”, I’d like a serious consideration of his
proposal, and (surprise) I’d like to raise the possibility that we dismiss the
idea and just go ahead and concede the “out of the package download experience”
to NetBeans and whatever VENDORS want to productize Eclipse. Seeing the level of
inexperience DROP post-Callisto on eclipse.newcomer (IMHO), I’m just not sure
we’re up to the task Ed is proposing. Why spread ourselves too thin? Why not
focus on our true “core values”, which are to provide the best platform for
others to productize? (Alternatively, I want to so incense people with my
“concede to NetBeans” counter-proposal so as to incite a real effort to go
beyond our core values to adding a new one… best out-of-the-box experience. I’m
just not sure we’re up to it!) --
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