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Bug 319068

Summary:	Website design issue
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John <j_david_lamb>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	Platform-Doc-Inbox <platform-doc-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	ankur_sharma, daniel_megert, milesparker, remy.suen
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description John

2010-07-06 20:30:54 EDT

Build Identifier: irrelevant

When trying to run the qt-designer after installing the latest qt and eclipse I had an issue with it not running the mingw so doing some research I decided I needed to make sure I installed the right version of eclipse.  This is where I learned of ganymede and helios and other version.  Not what they are but that they existed.  Trying to learn more all I could discover is a list of projects but not what they are in and of themselves.  The eclipse website is poorly designed and should be more product/project aligned, or more specifically product then project aligned.  So far all I can determine is that you have no real help without first being tricked into joining a newsfeed and that there really is no product explanation of helios and ganymede or that it is hard to locate...still searching...if I am complaining about it there are at least ten others that feel the same and many more that have turned away...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. forget all you know about eclipse already (get a newbie for god's sake)
2. open the website in a browser
3. try to find an explanation of what ganymede is and how is it different from helios

Comment 1 John

2010-07-06 20:32:14 EDT

contact me with a link to a description of what is ganymede vs helios vs other products or dont bother contacting me

Comment 2 Miles Parker

2010-07-07 01:27:34 EDT

Hi John,

You might find this link helpful..its reachable from a banner ad at the top of the eclipse home page but that's rotating. 

http://www.eclipse.org/helios/

"Eclipse Helios is the annual release of Eclipse projects in 2010; this year 39 project teams are part of the release."

The downloads page is the best place to learn about specific products:

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

hth,

Miles

Comment 3 Ankur Sharma

2010-07-07 04:11:55 EDT

I don't think its a PDE bug. Moving it to Platform.


btw I would start with looking at What's new Pages

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/whatsNew/platform_whatsnew.html

http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/whatsNew/platform_whatsnew.html

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2010-07-07 05:11:47 EDT

>2. open the website in a browser
What website? eclipse.org?

Comment 5 John Arthorne

2010-07-27 15:38:25 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 238701 ***