[ECLIPSE] Do we need an eclipse-specific policy?

[Pantelis Koukousoulas]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
>
>> Does that mean we need an eclipse policy following debian tradition?
>
> IMHO a clear: YES.

Noted,
anyone else?

> Without having had a look at it (because of time constraints):
> I would try to adopt as much as possible and I would repeat my strong
> recommendation to join  linux-distros-dev at eclipse.org  for discussing
> this kind of issues.

This discussion will eventually involve linux-distros as well, but debianers
will have to voice their opinion too/first :-)

> Apropos repeating: I will definitely not become a strong member of
> the pkg-java team but I'm willing to help out with *some* packaging
> stuff and sponsoring packages.  My main concern is to help were some
> grunt work has to be done because I'm definitely not in the position
> (spare time wise and knowledge wise) to draw strategic decisions -
> I just know that cooperation with other projects is cruxial if you
> know you have sparse manpower.

This is cool and it was never my expectation that everyone must have an opinion
on everything. My intention with all threads starting with [ECLIPSE] is to state
all things that IMHO need discussion *as early as possible*, so that everyone's
voice will have a chance to be heard instead of trying to decide the
"last minute".

The deadline for deciding on all these subjects is more like july 2009
when 3.5 comes out
so there is no rush. In the meantime we can have a working eclipse
package, even if
not easily maintainable or debian policy compliant, but still better
than previous unofficial
attempts :-)

So, both for Andreas and the rest of the gang: if you see an [ECLIPSE]
mail that you
don't have the time to answer to, just ignore it for now, but please
*do* try to take it into
account if you want to submit a patch to me that deals with these subjects.

I don't want to merge patches that touch areas that need discussion,
without having
this discussion in public first.

So, for now, please decide on alioth vs launchpad quickly so that we
can start filing
bugs and get the "grunt work" that everyone seems to like started :-)

Cheers,
Pantelis