+1 from me on statement On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Matthew Hall <[email protected]>wrote:
> +1 on the new mission statement. > > Matthew > > > Tom Schindl wrote: > >> Hi Nebula-Community, >> >> This is a multi series on my view of the state and future of Nebula >> which has the target get us out of the nebula. >> >> Part 1: The mission statement and its consequences >> -------------------------------------------------- >> I just replied to a newsgroup thread which asks whether the Nebula-Grid >> will get part of SWT one day and hence out of Alpha/Beta state. >> >> While answering the question I some things got to my mind. I would like >> to rephrase them here and ask for your comments. >> >> The first thing that I realized is that our main problem in the past was >> and still is our mission statement. >> >> "The Nebula project is a source for custom SWT widgets and other UI >> components. Nebula is also an incubator for SWT. Some Nebula widgets >> will graduate into SWT and therefore into the main Eclipse Platform." >> >> Though this statement may not sound new to you I think many of our >> problems stem from it. >> >> a) It makes Nebula look like a playground for big boys and girls for the >> outside user >> >> b) It doesn't reflect reality because our controls will never get part >> of SWT because the main purpose of SWT is to work with widget >> provided by the Native Platforms >> >> c) It makes us Nebula-Developers unconsciously work as we are not >> working towards a stable widget (even if it means to hold of new >> features until we have a release) >> >> So the first thing we need to fix is our mission statement. What to you >> guys think about the following mission statement: >> >> "Nebula is a place where different Eclipse-Projects and Independent >> developers collaborate on building Custom SWT widgets and reuseable >> UI-Components useable in UI-Applications built using SWT." >> >> Some of the latest additions we added to Nebula (e.g. XViewer) fall >> directly into this category of reusable UI-Components. The above is a >> first try to cover the new scope and mission of our Nebula-Project! >> >> Naturally I'd like to get response on the statement and your idea of the >> mission of Nebula so that we come up with a mission statement within the >> next say 2 weeks. >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> nebula-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >
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