Am 24.11.2015 um 17:52 schrieb John
Arthorne:
Thanks for all your
work gathering and
assembling this, Marcel.
I want to poke on "fund a
developer
to triage and fix the most common errors" one a bit. Apart from
the
fact that the topic was changed half way through voting, I have
a meta-point
about how this one is quite different from all the other
proposals. For
all the other topics, we are essentially making guesses about
what we think
is the most valuable thing to focus on. I find it hard to judge
whether
it is more important to work on GTK vs Mac issues, or how to
measure the
competing proposals on how to improve discovery/install of new
plugins.
However from AERI we have concrete evidence of errors that occur
thousands
of times per week for our users. We have a clear way to rank
them so we
know the most effective thing to focus on. We have a clear
metric that
can be used to define and measure success at working on it. The
downside
is that there is a fair bit of noise in the signal, and a lot of
"grunt"
work to sift through them and identify either the real fix, or
the change
to our logging code or in AERI to filter or reclassify them
appropriately.
I must say I still don't see why the Platform is so
special that it shouldn't go through the "normal" FEEP process.
Now that budget is reachable, why don't you go through the problem
reports and identify a number of important/interesting ones for
each FEEP round? I'd be more than happy to see these important
problems fixed in the Platform and I would vote accordingly on a
case by case basis. Just to be clear, my resistance to the "fund a
full-time developer" idea is not because I personally might lose
some influence, it's really more because I fear that the community
would lose both influence and traceability.
Still, as I said before, I'm not totally against it. I just don't
see an immediate need for this "special handling" or a big
advantage (other than less proposal preparation effort).
Cheers
/Eike
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To me this one in particular is
the
perfect use of FEEP funding. It is perhaps not the most exciting
work,
but it is work that will have real and measurable impact on our
quality,
and user's perceptions of Eclipse IDE's as a quality product. It
is also
something that can be scoped up or down to suit any budget FEEP
may have.
I think the "full time" aspect really skewed the discussion away
from the central point here, so I wanted to make sure everyone
had a chance
to reconsider the proposal and give their thoughts for or
against it.
John
From:
Marcel Bruch
<marcel.bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
"eclipse.org-architecture-council
eclipse.org"
<eclipse.org-architecture-council@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
11/19/2015 06:23 AM
Subject:
Re:
[eclipse.org-architecture-council]
FEEP Voting, Iteration #1 - Summary
Sent by:
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Greetings AC Members,
here are the current vote results. There were 16
proposals,
and 18 AC members voting. IMHO these results provide a great
input for
further discussion. This is the summary of the current votes:
Bug |
Summary |
Average |
|
479686 |
[FEEP]
Improve GTK 3.0 support |
1,6
|
18
|
480176 |
[FEEP]
Allow user to discover plugins to edit a specific type
of file |
1,6
|
17
|
482409 |
[FEEP]
Fix issues in Mac SWT port |
1,5
|
15
|
482236 |
[FEEP]
JVM selection UI in the launcher |
1,2
|
17
|
482034 |
[FEEP]
p2 improvements |
1,1
|
15
|
480177 |
[FEEP]
WTP XML editor technology face-lift |
0,8
|
17
|
480547 |
[FEEP]
Prompt user to install additional plugins |
0,8
|
17
|
479536 |
[FEEP]
Improve Tooling Support for NullPointerAnalysis |
0,5
|
17
|
480551 |
[FEEP]
Enable "refresh using native hooks" |
0,3
|
17
|
480546 |
[FEEP]
Make everything available in Eclipse Marketplace |
0,2
|
17
|
481227 |
[FEEP]
Improve Dark Theme |
0,1
|
17
|
480024 |
[FEEP]
[jdt] Fund full-time committer for JDT |
0,0
|
17
|
482037 |
[FEEP][platform]
Fund a developer to triage and fix the most frequently
occurring errors
in Platform UI |
-0,1
|
17
|
479541 |
[FEEP]
New Project Website for our IDE |
-2,0
|
2
|
480550 |
[FEEP]
Tips & tricks dialog |
-0,1
|
17
|
480553 |
[FEEP]
Review most used marketplace plug-ins |
-0,9
|
17
|
Given these votes, the following topics seem to be
of
major interest to AC members:
- Improving GTK 3.0 Support - 1,6
- Allows users to discover editor plugins based
on file-extensions
- 1,6
- Fixing Mac SWT errors - 1,5
- JVM Selection UI - 1,2
Note that this list is neither a final statement
nor a
recommendation. It’s a starter for more in-depth discussions -
especially
for the controverse proposals with wide variance. Those may be
caused by
different understandings and need further discussion.
How to proceed?
Those that voted a +2 on certain topics (and still
would
vote +2) and feel that the proposal may be misunderstood by
others should
ask specific voters for their opinions. Preferably, as Pascal
said, this
discussion takes place in Bugzilla.
I’d propose to reserver another week for iteration
#2
- until next Wednesday - to settle the discussions on these
controversial
topics.
From there, we’ll see whether another iteration is
needed.
My goal is to finalize this list until the next AC meeting,
discuss it
there if necessary, and present the results to the EF then.
Regards,
Marcel
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