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Re: [rt-pmc] Runtime platforms on the eclipse download page
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On 6/23/2016 9:12 AM, Jesse McConnell wrote:
The definition of 'container' is so massively overridden these days
the term hardly has meaning.
Yeah, exactly...which is why it doesn't make good selection criteria.
Taking a step back I hardly think that this download page (or any
similar download page anywhere at eclipse) is going to make but a very
small handful of people find a download they are not already looking for.
I disagree with this. I think it could be true for the download use
cases Jetty/Jesse is mostly interested in (people looking for Jetty
specifically...probably most likely to go to Maven central Jetty
separate from Eclipse). But for other projects...e.g. ones that are
relatively new extensions to OSGi frameworks, RCP, and/or Eclipse
tooling such as ECF remote services and others...I don't think your
analysis holds. In those cases their biggest problem is that no one
knows about the work because it gets no exposure/promotion, and being
viewed by more people can/does matter.
It does suggest to me that if a project like Jetty doesn't really get
much benefit from being on the main download page (because everyone is
looking elsewhere already) then perhaps it shouldn't be in the set of 5
selected projects that are on the download page.
Scott