Nov 10, 2010

Gathering Community... now!

Finally, Eclipse Code Recommenders has been proposed officially by the Eclipse Foundation today. We are now in the Gathering Community Phase which precedes the Creation Review. But what exactly is the goal of this phase?

Basically it's a reality check that aims to figure out whether there is a community which is interested in the project. More formally, the Eclipse Development Process says "The proposers, in conjunction with the destination PMC and the community, collaborate in public to enhance, refine, and clarify the proposal". And "when the proposers and the EMO are confident that the proposers have sufficient community support for the proposal, the process can progress to the next step: the Creation Review."

So, here we go :-) The proposal is available here. It presents a set of of five initial (groups of) tools we want to bring to Eclipse:
  1. Intelligent Code Completion Systems
  2. Smart Template Engines 
  3. Usage-Driven and Crowdsourced API Documentation 
  4. Stacktrace Search Engine
  5. API Misuse / Bug Detector
Read more about these tools in the project proposal, and send your comments, questions, support/ "I like" statements etc. to the proposals forum - and don't hesitate to ask tough questions :-)

We'd also appreciate to hear about your ideas and personal visions of how code recommenders may/should improve Eclipse.

And one last favor: Please help spread the word, for instance, via twitter, blogs, facebook or good old email! Thanks!

All the best,
Marcel
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4 comments:

  1. Holger StaudacherNovember 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM

    Hey Marcel, please add me as an interested parties.

    Regards Holger Staudacher

    PS: Sou you next week in Bonn

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  2. UnknownNovember 11, 2010 at 6:00 PM

    Thanks Holger! I added your name to http://wiki.eclipse.org/Recommenders/Proposal#Interested_Parties. I wil merge this with the official proposal later on.

    CU in Bonn. Best wishes from Santa Fe.

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  3. Sopot ÇelaDecember 12, 2010 at 12:14 AM

    Hello Marcel,

    Congratulations on Code Recommender's success.

    I wanted to express my interest in this project.
    Regards,
    Sopot Çela

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  4. UnknownDecember 12, 2010 at 7:35 AM

    Thanks Sopot! It's great to hear about people that are interested in code recommenders. I added you to the interested parties section on the wiki page and will merge this with the final proposal - which hopefully get's accepted in in three days (15.12.)

    Best,
    Marcel

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