Hi all,
I asked Bjorn Freeman-Benson this week (he's the technical director,
open source process and infrastructure of the Eclipse foundation) about
the things that have to be done within the proposal phase of an Eclipse
project.
He was just coming back from vacation and didn't had time for much
details, but here's the interesting quote: "The end of the review period
is when it appears that the discussion has properly gelled around the
concepts and ideas. In your case, because you're so focused and
organized, this will be shorter than for other projects. It may even
already be true."
Good news. However, even if the Lepido proposal [1] contains a number of
features, and many people expressed their interest in the project when I
announced it, not much people provided actual feedback since this
newsgroup was opened.
Chicken and egg problem, I guess people are waiting for the code to land
in CVS to start being more active, but we won't have the CVS until
enough feedback has been given (remember however that my company's
plugins and their source are already available for download [2]).
So, what do you think of the planned features? Does they fit with your
view of a Cocoon IDE? What other features would you like to have?
Please provide us feedback either here or on the wiki page [3].
Thanks,
Sylvain
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-lepido/
[2]
http://people.anyware-tech.com/~sylvain/lepido/com.anwrt.eclipse.lepido.zip
[3] http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/LepidoProjectPlan