Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Beaton
FYI, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458974 I like to start from ideal and work back to realistic. Realistically, we don't have a proper product manager at this point in time, and we don't have extra engineering cycles. Extracting data from what we already have and prescribing p

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Mickael Istria
On 02/02/2015 06:19 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote: From: Lars Vogel mailto:lars.vo...@vogella.com>> > Ideally, we have a product/project manager who puts all this together. Don’t let engineers do your marketing :). -1, having worked for a large software company in the past, I think the

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Ed Willink
Hi On 02/02/2015 17:18, Mickael Istria wrote: On 02/02/2015 06:07 PM, Lars Vogel wrote: > Ideally, we have a product/project manager who puts all this together. Don’t let engineers do your marketing :). -1, having worked for a large software company in the past, I think the current platform

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Doug Schaefer
From: Lars Vogel mailto:lars.vo...@vogella.com>> > Ideally, we have a product/project manager who puts all this together. Don’t > let engineers do your marketing :). -1, having worked for a large software company in the past, I think the current platform approach of having the developer describ

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Mickael Istria
On 02/02/2015 06:07 PM, Lars Vogel wrote: > Ideally, we have a product/project manager who puts all this together. Don’t let engineers do your marketing :). -1, having worked for a large software company in the past, I think the current platform approach of having the developer describe his d

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Lars Vogel
> Ideally, we have a product/project manager who puts all this together. Don’t let engineers do your marketing :). -1, having worked for a large software company in the past, I think the current platform approach of having the developer describe his development is much more efficient. On Mon, Feb

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Doug Schaefer
Ideally, we have a product/project manager who puts all this together. Don’t let engineers do your marketing :). D From: Wayne Beaton mailto:wa...@eclipse.org>> Organization: The Eclipse Foundation Reply-To: Cross project issues mailto:cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org>> Date: Monday, Februa

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Beaton
Okay. Avoidance of more work is a requirement. Forget all that silliness about a common XML file format and putting extra files in features. Wayne On 02/02/15 10:03 AM, Daniel Megert wrote: For us it would mean more work, which I'd like to avoid. Having one document easily allows to tools to e

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Daniel Megert
For us it would mean more work, which I'd like to avoid. Having one document easily allows to tools to e.g. check for XHTML validity, and help fix such issues. If the document is generated out of pieces, then it can be a tedious task to get to a generated document that is valid. The extension p

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Beaton
I share your concerns. The need to find and fix typos doesn't change. We can use some sort of weighting to encourage ordering. Grouping can be done by feature. I'm more concerned about the generation of a massive all-features-ever listing than I am about the N&N for any particular release.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Daniel Megert
Our N&N is compiled by the input of each committer (sub-project) directly into our news repo ( http://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news.git) or via Gerrit for contributors. Before we publish the milestone, someone from the team edits the document to bring it into a good and readable

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Lars Vogel
> I only ever see the Platform/JDT N&N in web page form. How is this web page constructed? Is it just done by hand, or is it somehow automatically generated from some data source? We write it by hand as HTML. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Wayne Beaton wrote: > I agree with Dani. Each projec

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Beaton
I agree with Dani. Each project's N&N should be project-specific. I only ever see the Platform/JDT N&N in web page form. How is this web page constructed? Is it just done by hand, or is it somehow automatically generated from some data source? The ideal, I think, would be to have a common for

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Ed Willink
Hi A mishmash is certainly undesirable, but they are indirected and maybe a style consensus might materialize. (Maybe the PMI might even help format it). If the PMI doesn't help, we have to introduce a new all-projects database/HTML file. Regards Ed Willink On 02/02/2015 14:1

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Beaton
The PMI has a single field that you can use to record a link. IMHO, a mishmash of links with N&N in different formats isn't very useful. Wayne On 02/02/15 05:30 AM, Ed Willink wrote: Hi I think the PMI has/can have a full list of all the N&Ns, so is it possible for the PMI to create an N&N i

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Marcel Bruch
Greetings. No complains yet. Good. However, there’s a difference between _thinking_ that something is a good(not bad) idea and actually _implementing_ it. Thus, before we start asking for modifications in PMI or settings up other solutions, I’d like to know who would be interested to participa

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Daniel Megert
> I think the correct solution would be to extend the purpose of the Platform N&N to include newsitems from the EPP side. No, that is not the correct solution. The EPP/main download side can have and advertise a joint N&N. Dani From: Lars Vogel To: Cross project issues Date: 02.02

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Ed Willink
Hi I think the PMI has/can have a full list of all the N&Ns, so is it possible for the PMI to create an N&N index similar to the Help Documentation index so that the Platform N&N links to the overall N&N index? Impact one line per project in an index. If we want a 'three item' overview, perh

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Markus Knauer
Sounds interesting... Right now we are maintaining a list of N&N links for every package, but (a) these are not very popular... and (b) they are most of the time out of date because I tend to review these for the release only, i.e. I don't have the time to update them regularly for every milestone

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Lars Vogel
Hi Marcel, I think the correct solution would be to extend the purpose of the Platform N&N to include newsitems from the EPP side. Best regards, Lars On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Marcel Bruch wrote: > Greetings cross-projects, > > I’d like to get your thoughts about a joint N&N page for Ma

[cross-project-issues-dev] Joint N&N page for the release train

2015-02-02 Thread Marcel Bruch
Greetings cross-projects, I’d like to get your thoughts about a joint N&N page for Mars Milestones. The platform maintains a N&N page [1] for changes on the Platform/JDT/PDE. All press releases, blogs and tweets about new milestones are pointing to this page and as such it is the most prominent