Re: [orion-dev] Draft Orion proposal

[Simon Kaegi <Simon_Kaegi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

re: ...don't think that charter has been updated in ten years... WebDAV and Scripting were dropped as components after the 1.0 release!

I prefer to think of it as extraordinary foresight ;)

John Arthorne---03/31/2011 04:35:52 PM---Good point. I don't think that charter has been updated in ten years... WebDAV and Scripting were d

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Good point. I don't think that charter has been updated in ten years... WebDAV and Scripting were dropped as components after the 1.0 release! 

I will start to work on revising it and iterate with you and the PMC. I have opened a bug to track this: 

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=341544 

It will be interesting to see how much or little Orion changes it. Ignoring the implementation technology underlying the platform, the mission of Orion is exactly the same. I.e., the first sentence of the current charter, "an open source software development project dedicated to providing a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools", describes Orion perfectly. The key change will be altering "Eclipse Platform" into a more general term I think. RCP diverges much more from this original scope because it is not related to tools. In any case I'll think on it and continue discussion in the bug report. 

John

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John, 
  
One issue that I think we need to consider carefully is how Orion fits within the scope of the Eclipse project’s charter[1]. My read of the Scope section of the existing charter is that Orion does not fit within Eclipse’s scope. The operative sentence being: “The Eclipse Project encompasses both the Eclipse platform technology itself, and a set of tools that together form the software development kit (SDK) for building Eclipse-based tools. ” 
  
Has perhaps the time come to update the Eclipse Project charter? 
  
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/eclipse-charter.php 
  
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