On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for continuing the conversation, Myrna and Kathey. Some comments > inline... Some reactions to your comments also inline. > > On 5/11/11 2:43 PM, Myrna van Lunteren wrote: >> >> ... >> But I agree with Kathey, the first step should be to announce on >> derby-user list that we intend to stop hosting the plugin(s) after >> 10.8, suggesting that perhaps one of the users of the plugins is >> interested in hosting it themselves. > > Since you have volunteered to manage the 10.8.2 release, would you be > willing to commit to providing the Eclipse plugins for that release? That > will help frame the user discussion about when the plugins will disappear > and when we need a volunteer from the Eclipse community. > Certainly.
> Without identified release managers, I don't feel we can promise the user > community that the plugins will be provided in other releases from any of > our branches. > > I would be happy to draft a message to the user community, first posting > that message to this list for review. Thanks - I'll make sure I review it & respond. > Once that message goes to derby-user, > I will need your support, particularly if the discussion veers toward > questions which can only be answered by Eclipse-literate developers. > Understood. I'll be happy to weigh in. I do have working knowledge of Eclipse, although I'm not an expert. >> Then, somewhat depending on the response we get, I think we should aim >> to actually remove the plugin code from trunk (It will still be there >> on the branches where we provided the plugins). > > This sounds like a good, incremental approach to me. > > Thanks, > -Rick >> >> Myrna
