Re: [CONSENSUS] Default plugin site (was Re: Frustrations of a Release Manager)

[Sachin Patel]

Plugins is becoming such a general term now days, I think the only real way to distinguish the overlap is through education and good documentation, not by renaming the technologies which I think would add further confusion. On Aug 24, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Paul McMahan wrote: As for your second point about Geronimo plugins vs. the Geronimo Eclipse plugin terminology, I totally agree with you that this will be confusing to end users.  Actually since Geronimo decided to introduce the concept of plugins I have started to notice how many other types of software besides Eclipse also use that term.  My browser, for example, just told me that "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page".  I was using a Macromedia product that also complained that I needed a plugin. etc. I don't have any specific ideas on how to avoid confusing users about the terminology overlap, other than to make sure that Geronimo's Eclipse plugin is listed at the appropriate site :-) -sachin