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Tom Tom Schindl schrieb: > 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
