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RequirementsCouncil06TP
Contents
Timeline
This is the discussed at the March 2006 Requirements Council meeting at EclipseCon.
- 2006 – Late April – Team email on “key themes/trends” that matter (Collaborate on the WIKI if technically possible to keep within the council)
- 2006 – Early May – Conference call re: email brainstorm, first draft for council
- 2006 – June – Council meeting
- 2006 – July – Requirements council delivers “DRAFT: themes and priorities”, with preamble (or some cool name for this) i.e.,”mid course planning advice”, “areas of focus” or “trends and recommendations”. Plus – each theme streamlined and “why this theme is important”
- 2006 – September – Members at meeting get interactively involved in themes v3
- 2006 – October – Council meeting
- 2006 – December – Council meeting, and Board approved Roadmap v3
Brainstorming
The following are major themes and priorities currently under discussion. Please add and edit at will. For each theme and priority, be sure to add details as to why this is a priority.
Support for VISTA
When VISTA is released there will be a number of efforts to port Windows applications. This presents an opportunity for organizations who will take the opportunity to migrate to the more ubiquitous and portable Eclipse platform. In order to leverage the opportunity as much as possible, it is essential that relevant Eclipse projects support and leverage VISTA.
RCP
RCP adoption has been strong by the ecosystem in 2006. The goal is for projects to support and use the Eclipse RCP as much as possible. Aside from general use of RCP, there are two additional dimensions to this theme. First, making use of "Thin RCP" too. Making as much use of RCP on thin clients as possible and enhancing the abilities of RCP to work in these environments. Second, making RCP as easy as possible to use so that it's easier for application developers to adopt.
Embedded Device Software
Place holder.
Ease of use
Productivity
Emerging Trends
AJAX, Mobile/Embedded
Design Tools
Linux
SWT
Is the covered mostly under Vista and RCP?