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Bug 208452

Summary:	Make simplified IP process documents simple to find
Product:	Community	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	Process	Assignee:	Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	anne.jacko, bjorn.freeman-benson
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2007-11-01 13:07:13 EDT

Bjorn recently sent out an email about three simplified overviews of the ip process, etc. Sadly, I have deleted the email, and the documents seem to be impossible to find. I searched:

 - Foundation page: http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/
 - Governance page: http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/
 - Legal resources page: http://www.eclipse.org/legal/

I then searched for the mail archive of the committer mailing list, but the archive does not appear in the mailing list index:

 - http://www.eclipse.org/mail/index_all.php

Through google I found a blog reference to the ip process in cartoons and the three laws of eclipse, but I recall there was a third document that gave a simpler overview of how to organize legal files, etc.

This is a request to make these handy new documents easy to find on eclipse.org.

Comment 1 Anne Jacko

2007-11-01 16:00:54 EDT

John, could this be the page you are looking for?
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/index-quick.php

Adding Bjorn to the cc list so he can offer an opinion about making these easier to find on the website.

--Anne

Comment 2 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-11-01 19:08:44 EDT

So I did make a link to them on the http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ page - look in the left menu for "Quick & Fun Process Prose", but I guess that was a little too obscure.  I'll add them to those other three places too.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2007-11-01 23:02:21 EDT

Yes, that's the page I was looking for.  I didn't think to look under the "projects" section, because I've always thought of that as just an entry point to the web pages hosted by each of the projects. A link around the foundation/legal document pages makes sense. I've also added a link under the "Committers" section.

Comment 4 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-11-04 23:59:50 EST

I added links from those three pages to the index-quick page. Hope it helps!