Re: [eclipse-scripting-dev] e4 "releases"

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> I'm not trying to be difficult here, but I don't
see this as 
> semantic quibbling. These are effectively releases that you are 
> encouraging the community to download and use. If there is 
> functionality within the project that has reached the point where
it
> needs this sort of exposure, it's time to find a new home for it.

If we are promoting these as something useable for
the community we are doing a horrible job at it ;) If you go to the download
page for one of these "releases" you only get a zipped p2 repository
(e.g., eclipse-e4-repo-incubation-0.14.zip). If
you get to this point it is fairly clear from the name that it's incubating,
and it's in a form that is quite difficult to consume as an end-user. As
Paul said the intent here was just to capture stable points in the tooling
that align with particular Platform releases. Some of the tooling here
is very tightly coupled to the platform and will only work with precisely
one platform version, so it is important to give these a label for the
sanity of our own team of committers and contributors. I suggested to Paul
that we rename these to "stable builds". 

John