Re: [eclipse-pmc] Renaming `Eclipse` top-level project into `Eclipse SDK

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

+0 (I do not have a strong opinion on that)

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As most of you are probably aware, our Eclipse community is now much more
> than the Eclipse Platform, SDK, IDE... and the legacy around Eclipse SDK/IDE
> makes that the Eclipse term is often not properly used nor understood by
> some people in the target ecosystem. It typically implies for too many
> people that Eclipse Community and Foundation are only about the Eclipse
> Platform and IDE, which is wrong and unfair.
>
> To clarify that, EMO (and I imagine some other projects) would like to avoid
> the "Eclipse" top-level project to be about Platform and SDK. They'd
> basically want the Eclipse Community and Foundation to not have one single
> "Eclipse" top-level project and to have the Eclipse project be called
> Eclipse Something to streamline it with the current practices for all other
> top-level projects.
>
> As committer representative, I do understand and support the wish to clarify
> that. I think it would be more fair with other Eclipse projects, and on
> mid-term, it would simplify several things related to branding and other
> stuff, both for the Eclipse Platform, SDK, IDE and all other Eclipse-related
> projects and initiatives.
> As Platform contributors, I think it's fine as long as it doesn't change
> anything technically speaking: the renaming shouldn't change the Git
> repository URLs, Bugzilla components nor anything like that. I hope that if
> Eclipse PMC escalates the request to EMO, EMO would understand the need for
> "technical" stability during this rename and wouldn't object to keep the
> current "endpoints" and let the project adopt some newer ones if it wants
> to, when it wants to.
>
> We already discussed it with Dani and Alex at EclipseCon Europe, and the
> good proposal for a rename that came out of this nice chat is that it would
> be good to rename the "Eclipse" TLP into "Eclipse SDK" TLP, without changing
> anything else than the label and projects description basically.
>
> What do the PMC think about that? Any concern? Is it something that could be
> done soon-ish?
> I've CC'ed the main EMO stakeholders I guessed on this topic if you have
> some more logistical questions.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse IDE developer, at Red Hat Developers community
> Elected Committer Representative at the Eclipse Foundation board of
> directors
>
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