A place for committers to roam together

Among others, two topics regularly come back in various forums
- diversity in the participation of a project
- common components / code duplication

In my opinion, one of the reason for these problems is the absence of communication / communication medium between the actual doers, the committers, thus leaving each of them ignorant of what others are doing and the problems they are facing, solving, etc.

What I would like to have is a place for committers to be able to ask technical questions, exchange ideas, etc. thus giving them an opportunity to discover common interests and help building a stronger sense of fellowship.

Is this place eclipse.org-committers@eclipse.org mailing list? Anyway if such a place exist, we need to make sure everyone knows about it and is not shy about sharing and if it is not we should experiment with it. Please comment on bug 205572.

The equinox provisioning effort now has a name

This afternoon team meeting gave the "equinox provisioning effort" the cool snappy name of

P2

Yes, you read it right the letter P, then the number 2. It can stands for the followings in no particular order:
- Provisioning Platform
- Provisioning Partout (partout is the french word for everywhere)
- Pascal's Provisioning (hey, why not? We do have the "Ed Merks Framework")
- Provisioning, the 2nd generation

The bundles and packages will be renamed right after M2 has been delivered.

The motivations behind this renaming can be found at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_Provisioning_Naming.

New PDE ad

This ad from a phone company, could well be the new ad and motto for PDE :-)

iPhone and Eclipse

iPhone may not get Java, but Eclipse gets the iPhone. Yes, Eclipse gets an IDE to "increase iPhone developement productivity". I don't know if this is the official SDK (my guess is no), but anyway I found this pretty cool. See http://www.aptana.com/iphone/