Hi, At EclipseCon 2006, Ben Konrath and I met Matt Ryan from Novell. We talked about the general issues hurting Eclipse adoption in the Linux and FOSS communities. Matt took the lead out of our conversations and along with “Eclipse people” from other major distros, we proposed [1] the “Eclipse on Linux Distributions” project at eclipse.org. Last week, the project had its Creation Review [2] and it was a success! I’d like to see most, if not all, of the work that our group is doing — ChangeLog, autotools, specfile editing, packaging tools, etc. — get more visibility as part of this project. We’re also looking forward to collaborating with developers and packagers from other distributions. Having this work under the eclipse.org umbrella will give it better exposure and hopefully help in achieving our goal of bringing Eclipse technology to Linux distribution users. As usual, everyone is invited to join in our work. We hope to see some of you on IRC (#fedora-java), fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx, the upstream mailing lists (linux-distros-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx ... at least for now - it may change to be linuxtools-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx but that's yet to be finalized), etc. Thanks, Andrew [1] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/linux-distro/ [2] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/linux-distro/LinuxDistrosCreationReview.pdf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
