Re: [eclipse-dev] Please help me stop the context menu abuse

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am severly disappointed how this change have just been turned down by the PMC.
>
> What mailing list should one be on to hear the arguments against it ?

Note: I know about eclipse-pmc and eclipse-wtp-pmc but neither of those lists
had the discussion as far as I could see in my inbox nor archives.

> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=231611 just says:
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> "The PMC feels that it's too late for product teams that want to ship
> simultaneously with 3.4 to respond to the change."
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> What product teams is it that wont be able to respond to the change ?
> Let me know and I'll give them resources to create the 2-3 lines diff that is needed
> within the week.
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> If it is some external closedsource products then I can't help but remember this change
> does not prevent the old way of cluttering the menu so what is the problem ?

Actually if they provide us with their plugin.xml we can fix it in closedsource products to ;)

/max

> /max
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>> *THANKS*!
>>
>> -max
>>
>>> This was  a good issue to bring up, thanks for doing so.
>>>
>>> The platform UI team chatted about it this morning.  We agree that we
>>> should provide some kind of guidance and a *small* mechanism to support
>>> it.
>>>
>>> More to come, we'll be working on a bug which describes the solution and
>>> then an email to this list.  I just wanted to let you know that we heard
>>> you, we agree it should be improved, and we'll be proposing something
>>> shortly.
>>>
>>> /Your friendly platform UI team
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> "Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>>> 05/11/2008 07:18 AM
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>>>>> Maybe  a quick group marker from platform ui could help there  ;-) or
>>> the
>>>>> affected projects can agree together and without the platform on a
>>> common ID
>>>>> even if it is not contributed by the platfom.
>>>>
>>>> Yes! That would be good!
>>>
>>> Got an example of a good similar group marker id ?
>>> I'll look at that and try and create a patchf or the related projects.
>>>
>>> /max
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