Thanks Mike! +1
I think it’s very important to raise the awareness. The steps look good and until we come to a conclusion about a potential new Kepler release, they seem like the only option to me. -Gunnar Am 27.03.2014 um 18:42 schrieb Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkov...@eclipse.org>: > > I had previously posted this under the "Kepler SR3 for Java 8?" thread, but I > think that was a mistake. Rather than hijacking that thread I am going to > start a new one. > > Just so everyone knows, the Eclipse Foundation is considering taking the > following steps to raise awareness of our Java 8 support. This is coming > partially as a result from feedback we got from this week's Javaland > conference in Germany where a number of developers made it very clear that > they had no idea that Eclipse supported Java 8 at all. Apparently only > announcing these things on our internal lists isn't sufficient :) > > Please note that all of this will be done with exactly what we have today. > None of this will require any actions on behalf of the Eclipse, EPP or other > teams. > We are going to create a Community Bulletin announcing Java 8 support that > will appear on our home page. > We are going to create a web page which clearly documents how to get an > install our existing Java 8 support for both Kepler SR2 and the Luna builds. > We are going to put a banner on the downloads page (e.g. "Looking for Java 8 > support?") which links to (2) above. > We are going to create an (or update the existing) Eclipse Marketplace entry > for the Kepler SR2 Java 8 feature > This will allow a drag-and-drop install into a Kepler SR2 workbench. > This will allow discovery and installation via the Marketplace Client (MPC). > We are going to make this Marketplace entry a "featured product" which will > make it visible on the Marketplace website and in the MPC. > [TBC] We are going to make the Java 8 support a "featured download" to give > it some prominence on the download page. > We welcome any comments or feedback. > > -- > Mike Milinkovich > mike.milinkov...@eclipse.org > +1.613.220.3223 > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev -- Gunnar Wagenknecht gun...@wagenknecht.org
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