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At this page, about project meta-data, http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Project_Meta-Data I found this sentence: "Status summaries must be updated at least once a quarter. It's better to update them once a month. " I first thought maybe there was some field or URL in the Portal meta-data that projects are supposed to update ... but, I could not find it. Am I missing it? Or does "status summaries" just refer to the whole general collection of all the metadata? Such as you'd see from the "about this project" pages, for example http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=webtools It does after all say "summary" in the URL :) If there is not specific field, that's fine, but the wording in the "how to" might be improved with a parenthetical remark, perhaps "Status summaries (the collection of all meta-data) must be updated at least once a quarter. It's better to update them once a month. " If there is a specific field, perhaps its name could be mentioned? Or ... maybe I'm just missing it in my reading of the metadata page?
BTW, I noticed this, or was "lead to it" while reviewing some up-coming changes to dev. process ... reading http://eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process_2011.php?commentary And there say "All projects are required to report their status at least quarterly using the EMO defined status reporting procedures." It didn't looked marked as "new", but I didn't recall seeing/hearing about it before, so followed the link in that sentence to the "how to" ... and, there, found it sort of vague. So, my main questions I guess could be said to be, is this a new requirement? Is there something specific type of status to report quarterly? Or does the dev. process statement just mean, basically, keep metadata up to date?
Pragamatically speaking, it's the latter: keep your project metadata up to date. That entry has been there for as long as I can remember.
The discussion of status summaries looks like a holdover from when project metadata was stored in files. I've updated the entries.
