[Bug 457072] Eclipse (Java) IDE website should maintain a feature overview page
Bugzilla Link | 457072 |
Status | NEW |
Importance | P3 normal |
Reported | Jan 08, 2015 14:12 EDT |
Modified | Oct 18, 2021 12:26 EDT |
Blocks | 484601 |
Reporter | Marcel Bruch |
Description
Started as discussion during the AC meeting, this bug is created to track complains and proposals how to make the Eclipse website more helpful and attractive to users.
Some first thoughts:
When users compare IDEs with each other, they are looking for a feature overview. Several IDEs feature such overview pages [1,2,3] but Eclipse does not provide a convenient website for this. To some extent the help center addresses parts of this content but doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore.
One example: with every milestone release a list of new and noteworthy features are added but the help center does not reflect these changes. If people want to learn how to use Eclipse, they have to assemble their knowledge by reading dozens of blog posts from many different websites.
Project pages like JDT [4] look abandoned (What's happening mentions 3.7 as latest item); the EMF download page [5] features THE BLEEDING EDGE from 8th April 2009.
In a first step, (core) platform projects should update their website content, provide feature overviews, and generally provide recent and helpful content. Maybe the EF could offer tour pages for the Java IDE(s), PHP etc. on their main page.
More thoughts?
[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/\ [2] https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/\ [3] https://netbeans.org/features/
[4] http://eclipse.org/jdt/\ [5] http://eclipse.org/modeling/emf/downloads/