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After our discussion during the Arch council meeting last week, I opened bug 308732:

This bug aims at gauging interest over a languages TLP. The Architecture
Council debated of the current state and layout of the eclipse projects. I
personally would find interesting - and would be ready to help and support -
the idea that we should gather all projects that deal with languages, as in
programmation languages together.

I recently heard how the JSDT project was reusing JDT. I also see more projects
maturing or coming in, like ScalaModules or IMP. I see synergies in those
cases.
I also see a better marketing for those projects by being associated under the
same banner. Right now I would qualify it is hard to find a project if you
don’t know its name already, just by looking at the TLPs Eclipse advertises.

This bug is opened for community input. If you have any facts that go or
against this initiative, the council would like to hear them out.

Your opinion is important. Please let us know what you think.

Our webmasters are having a rough time, the downloads area is down because there were recent issues with mirrors. All my sympathy goes to them.

I think we can help. I filed 266380 today:

Would it be feasible that we make I-builds and N-builds, that are most of the
time only available on the Canada website, to be available as torrents ?

People would help each other downloading them and depend a bit less on the
server.

I myself would be happy to set a high ratio on such torrents.

I think we could have a script to create torrent files in the same way we have a script to push files to mirrors. I welcome your feedback, and I hope we can all help eclipse.org stay up soon.

Wow, I received an email to RSVP to ECSS, the EclipseCon Strategy Summit.

The program consists of an analyst report, a pound of legal advice, two servings of feedback on open source strategies and a final panel.

The content looks good, there’s plenty of good and experienced speakers, it’s all well scheduled and planned.

Though, I tend to believe this kind of day would be better served by an unconference style.
I think it would really be thrilling for executives to come down that day, listen to an analyst keynote to get in the mood, and then grab a whiteboard and make their agenda for the day.

I believe that my CEO would be absolutely thrilled to participate to a meeting like that : get to know more people, more projects, coordinate efforts, and maybe even discuss open source strategy.

Of course you should take all this with a grain of salt. Last time I checked there was still written “Software Engineer” on my name tag.

I just had this discussion with Remy Suen:

rcjsuen: toulmean: It is certainly nice that newsgroups answers can be archived whereas IRC isn't.
toulmean: rcjsuen: well. We could archive the IRC discussions with echelog to some extent ?
rcjsuen: toulmean: In a way. I guess part of the issue is that newsgroups postings are generally better formulated than IRC chat logs.
toulmean: rcjsuen: well, yeah, but I prefer IRC because of the human touch.
rcjsuen: But well, it isn't something we can do anything about anyway.
toulmean: yeah. You know eventually we could add a command to KOS-MOS: remember last 5 exchanges with x, y, z
toulmean: and post those exchanges to the newsgroup
toulmean: rcjsuen: then KOS-MOS would send back the url to the message it posted
rcjsuen: I don't know about that.
toulmean: rcjsuen: so all the guys asking hard questions can ask them, then we push the questions to the newsgroup, so there is no overlap.
toulmean: rcjsuen: otherwise people ask once, two, thee times in different places. It's hard.
rcjsuen: Right.
toulmean: rcjsuen: just an idea, do what you want with it.
rcjsuen: toulmean: When I remember to (which I usually don't), I try to put the question in the FAQ when it's been asked a lot.
toulmean: rcjsuen: let's about it again later ? let's let it sink a bit.

What do you think ? A keeper ?