Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] A word on "provider names"
I've added this to the Release review checklist http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Release_Reviews#Checklist Wayne On 04/08/2013 11:06 AM, Wayne Beaton wrote: Thanks David. I'll be looking for this during release reviews. Wayne On 04/08/2013 10:14 AM, David M Williams wrote: I spent some time improving the "provider names" report, mostly for bug 400235. So it should be more accurate now. http://build.eclipse.org/simrel/kepler/reporeports/reports/providerNames.html Besides the appalling number of cases of "null" or "unknown" given for "Provider name" (which has always been true) I noticed a number of cases where people were giving the name of a company for provider name ... this is ok for a bundle that is a true "third party" bundle, but ... seems a fairly large number have been introduced for "org.eclipse " bundles. This seems wrong ... sort of against the spirit of Eclipse. The "Provider Name" should be "Eclipse ". Here's a few that stood out ... but, could be others. org.eclipse.gemini.jpa 1.1.0.RC1 Oracle Corporation org.eclipse.libra.framework.core 0.3.0.201212132137 Eteration A.S. org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.platform.lsf.ui 1.0.0.201303201633 IBM org.eclipse.emf.diffmerge.sdk.feature.feature.group 0.1.0.v20121203-0924 Thales Global Services S.A.S. Please fix as many of these "Provider Names" as possible ... it'll make Eclipse look much more professional when people look at the "about box" and similar. Thanks, [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=400235 ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev -- Wayne Beaton Director of Open Source Projects, The Eclipse Foundation Learn about Eclipse Projects ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev -- Wayne Beaton Director of Open Source Projects, The Eclipse Foundation Learn about Eclipse Projects ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] A word on "provider names"
Thanks David. I'll be looking for this during release reviews. Wayne On 04/08/2013 10:14 AM, David M Williams wrote: I spent some time improving the "provider names" report, mostly for bug 400235. So it should be more accurate now. http://build.eclipse.org/simrel/kepler/reporeports/reports/providerNames.html Besides the appalling number of cases of "null" or "unknown" given for "Provider name" (which has always been true) I noticed a number of cases where people were giving the name of a company for provider name ... this is ok for a bundle that is a true "third party" bundle, but ... seems a fairly large number have been introduced for "org.eclipse " bundles. This seems wrong ... sort of against the spirit of Eclipse. The "Provider Name" should be "Eclipse ". Here's a few that stood out ... but, could be others. org.eclipse.gemini.jpa 1.1.0.RC1 Oracle Corporation org.eclipse.libra.framework.core 0.3.0.201212132137 Eteration A.S. org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.platform.lsf.ui 1.0.0.201303201633 IBM org.eclipse.emf.diffmerge.sdk.feature.feature.group 0.1.0.v20121203-0924 Thales Global Services S.A.S. Please fix as many of these "Provider Names" as possible ... it'll make Eclipse look much more professional when people look at the "about box" and similar. Thanks, [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=400235 ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev -- Wayne Beaton Director of Open Source Projects, The Eclipse Foundation Learn about Eclipse Projects ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
[cross-project-issues-dev] A word on "provider names"
I spent some time improving the "provider names" report, mostly for bug 400235. So it should be more accurate now. http://build.eclipse.org/simrel/kepler/reporeports/reports/providerNames.html Besides the appalling number of cases of "null" or "unknown" given for "Provider name" (which has always been true) I noticed a number of cases where people were giving the name of a company for provider name ... this is ok for a bundle that is a true "third party" bundle, but ... seems a fairly large number have been introduced for "org.eclipse " bundles. This seems wrong ... sort of against the spirit of Eclipse. The "Provider Name" should be "Eclipse ". Here's a few that stood out ... but, could be others. org.eclipse.gemini.jpa 1.1.0.RC1 Oracle Corporation org.eclipse.libra.framework.core 0.3.0.201212132137 Eteration A.S. org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.platform.lsf.ui 1.0.0.201303201633 IBM org.eclipse.emf.diffmerge.sdk.feature.feature.group 0.1.0.v20121203-0924 Thales Global Services S.A.S. Please fix as many of these "Provider Names" as possible ... it'll make Eclipse look much more professional when people look at the "about box" and similar. Thanks, [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=400235 ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
