Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] XSL Tooling Update Site URL

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Which reminds me, I still owe this list some comments on "what it 
> takes to
> get out of incubation" ... we can/should discuss more later, but one 
> thing
> I wanted to emphasize is that it is not very much a function of 
> "number of tests",
> "quantity of API documentation" ... those things are good! :) ... but, 
> one of
> the key necessary things, I think, is to demonstrate a vibrant 
> community; end-users
> and adopters, preferably. I'm surprised, for example, there's not more 
> bugs
> and feature requests being opened by end-users. Anyone have any ideas
> why that might be? Do people just not know about it? Is it that narrow 
> of an
> audience that most WTP users don't need or use it? Just wondering.
Not sure really.   We do have a few people community members that are 
interested.  Most that I've communicated with have learned about it 
through my blog.  Also, I know that the word in general isn't out there 
like I had hoped because I found many people at Eclipsecon that didn't 
know the project was there.

I think it is going to take a bit more effort on our part to get it 
noticed.  Primarily, writting some Eclipse Articles and doing some 
Eclipse Live Demonstrations.   The other thing we are fighting is an 
established Eclipse XML IDE called Oxygen XML.   This already has a very 
good functional XSLT editor, our tooling is quickly catching up and has 
some features that Oxygen doesn't have already.

So, I guess we just need to be more vocal about it, my blog entries on 
it are getting some pretty good hits, so we may have a quiet user 
community.   Any ideas how many downloads the 0.5M7 release has gotten?

Dave



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