On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a first draft of a message to derby-user about the future of the > Eclipse plugins. Please let me know how I can improve this. > > Thanks, > -Rick > > --------------------------------- > > Dear Eclipse users, > > For the past six years, Derby releases have included two Eclipse plugins: a > core plugin and a ui/doc plugin. The Derby developers have come to the > conclusion that these plugin artifacts fall outside the scope of our > charter, which explictly excludes IDE and GUI work: > http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_charter.html#Database+Technology For future > releases, we would like to get out of the business of producing these > plugins. We plan to build them for one more maintenance release, 10.8.2: > http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyTenEightTwoRelease After that, we need > to find some other way to support people who develop Derby-powered > applications with Eclipse. > > We have two immediate questions for Eclipse users: > > 1) Does anyone use these plugins anymore? > > 2) Would someone in the user community be willing to build these plugins for > each Derby release and host them someplace else, perhaps at > http://marketplace.eclipse.org/ > >
Hi Rick, This message looks fine to me. Thanks for crafting it. Myrna
