Hi Rick:
Will it be good to estimate the time it might need to build the plugin and
host them somewhere else?
Thanks,
Lily
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On May 24, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Kim Haase <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks fine to me too. You might want to put a question mark at the end of
> the second question.
>
> Kim
>
> On 05/24/11 12:16 PM, Rick Hillegas 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/
