Description Nick Boldt 2007-06-25 11:49:52 EDT

In my continuing quest to centralize and simplify the meta required around maintaining project info, here's a suggestion/enhancement request.

The following 2 pages [1], [2] get their information from the Committer Tools portal [3], but that's near-duplication of what's in the project-info.xml files. If we added a tag for "topic" into those files, project leads could update this page from ONE place instead of TWO, and that committer tools page could be obsoleted and replaced by a link to the info about the project-info.xml file [4].

Additionally, this could be used to sort the Projects page [5] by topic as well, like it used to be.

Perhaps something like this could be added:

  <!--
     - Every project needs to be associated with at least one topic 
     - or category in order to be properly listed on these pages:
     - [1] http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index_topic.php 
     - [2] http://www.eclipse.org/mail/index_topic.php
     - Categories are limited to the following values: 
     -   "IDE" -- Language Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
     -   "Enterprise" -- Enterprise Development
     -   "RCP" -- Rich Client Platform (RCP)
     -   "Embedded" -- Embedded + Device Development
     -   "RIA" -- Rich Internet Applications
     -   "Framework" -- Application Frameworks
     -   "Tool" -- Tool Builder
  -->
  <categories>
    <category name="IDE"/>
    <category name="RCP"/>
  </categories>

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[1] http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index_topic.php 
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/mail/index_topic.php
[3] https://dev.eclipse.org/committers/committertools/project_category_list.php
[4] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status-infrastructure/project-info-xml.php
[5] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/