Good point,

Is there a quick HOWTO for adding a project's listing to marketplace ?

Martin

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Milinkovich
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 6:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Target audience of Juno repo

Just my personal opinion, but given that the Marketplace Client is quite 
popular and is included in almost all of the packages, I would recommend that 
Eclipse projects take the time to make their project distributions available 
via that channel.

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 On Behalf Of Konstantin Komissarchik
Sent: May-29-12 12:39 PM
To: 'Cross project issues'
Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Target audience of Juno repo

Trying to fragment the repository around user profiles isn't going to be easy 
or clean. Many users and use cases will not easily fit into neat profiles.

On the other hand, we already have a venue for presenting users with an easier 
to use course-granularity installation option... Eclipse Marketplace.

- Konstantin


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Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Target audience of Juno repo


+1, but probably way too late to be asking people to make these kind of changes 
now. Something that people should be thinking hard about for Kepler. There is a 
major need for a higher level of granularity on the features. Ideally it would 
be one per project but that isn't practical in many cases.

On 2012-05-29, at 8:29 AM, Pascal Rapicault wrote:
Once in a while I go through the content of the Juno repo to see what's there; 
and I try to see if I can make any sense of what is made available. 
Unfortunately this year it reached a point where I just can't. There are way 
too many entries that are subtle variations around the same project and whose 
installation result in unexpected results or non functional additions to my 
install. For example there is 11 entries for Sapphire, 5 entries for 
windowBuilder, an infinity of Mylyn related entries...?

I understand that we are all trying to promote our project and brand, but I 
would argue that the plethora of entries has a reverse effect that let the user 
confused as to what to install.

So the main question is "what is the primary target audience of the Juno repo?"
            - an eclipse user - e.g. a JEE programmer
            - an eclipse extender - e.g. someone using eclipse technologies to 
build an app

At this point, the content of the repo looks like what we are addressing both 
audience which may be a convenience for us but a nuisance for the end users.

IMO, the Juno repo should be "end user" focused and only include entries whose 
installation will result in new functionalities to be added to the IDE. Also 
each entry should have
            - a descriptive name (which include removing adjectives such as 
incubation, extender)
            - a minimal number of entries returned when I search for the name
            - be adequately categorized

How do we go about exposing the rest of the content for extenders?
            - Different repo URLs (e.g. 
download.eclipse.org/releases/juno/developer<http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno/developer>)
            - Addition of a developer focused category (with nested categories)

wdyt?

Pascal
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