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

[DOUG SATCHWELL <doug.satchwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've started looking at making an Eclipse corner article, and I think we could split it into 2 parts.

 

One part is the running/debugging of XSLT. The other is the UI stuff, like the templates, XPath content-assist, XML perspective and validation.

 

Dave/Jesper - if I were to work on the first part, would one of you want to do the other part? If not, I can cover that too but it'll take me a while longer!

 

Cheers,

 

Doug

 

----- Original Message ----
From: DOUG SATCHWELL <doug.satchwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: WTP Incubator Dev list <wtp-incubator-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 29 May, 2008 10:01:53 AM
Subject: Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] XSL Tooling Update Site URL

I also think the problem must be that nobody knows the subproject exists. I'm not as blogger myself, but  I would be willing to write an article.

 

But perhaps we should also bear in mind that this is only subproject of WTP - its not going to get the attention that a top level project might - its just going to make peoples lives easier by not having to download separate plugins (like my old X-assist plugin, that was getting 400 downloads a month - and still gets 100 a month even after announcing it has moved to here!).

 

 

----- Original Message ----
From: David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>
To: WTP Incubator Dev list <wtp-incubator-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 29 May, 2008 4:10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] XSL Tooling Update Site URL


>
> 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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