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== What is Project Meta-Data?==
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This page's content has been moved to the [https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#pmi-metadata Eclipse Project Handbook].
# Relatively static structural information such as the names of the project's mailing lists and newsgroups, the bugzilla products and CVS repository, etc.
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# Historical information such as previous release downloads, release review slides and IP logs, etc.
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# Status and future looking information such as the project and milestone plans, the features scheduled for the current release, release dates, etc.
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=== Who maintains it?===
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==Use the Generated Content for Your Project Home Page==
Eclipse committers and project leads are responsible for maintaining their project's meta-data. This information is an important part of being an Eclipse project.
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=== How do I maintain my meta-data?===
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If you want to use this page as your project home page, change the contents of your project's ''index.php'' file to:
Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].  Look in Eclipse Projects > [view] > [maintain] Project meta-data.
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==Basic Information==
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<?php
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header("Location: http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/your.project.id");
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?>
  
You should minimally provide the following information for your project.
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(with an appropriate substitution of ''your.project.id'', e.g. technology.egit, of course).
  
{| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
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Note that the automatically-generated pages will continue to grow, change, and be updated.
!Name        !! Field !! Description
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|Paragraph || paragraphurl || This is a single URL for an HTML file in your project's web directory that contains a concise (e.g., 50 word) description of your project. The content of this file is intended to be aggregated with other project paragraphs in lists (e.g., release train projects, top-level project summary lists, ...). Keep the content as simple as possible (i.e. avoid left- or right-aligned images, div tags, etc.). The goal is to motivate readers to identify your project as interesting, not convey deep technical content. You may specify the URL as absolute (e.g. <nowiki>http://www.eclipse.org/woolsey/description.html</nowiki>) or relative to the web root (e.g. /woolsey/description.html). Note that however you choose to specify this value, the resulting URL must be relative to <nowiki>http://www.eclipse.org/</nowiki>.
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|Short name || projectshortname || This is the short name (aka nickname) for your project. For example, the projectname for ECF might be Eclipse Communications Framework whereas the shortname would be ECF.
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|Homepage    || projecturl || This is a single URL that points to your project's main page. The link can be to any eclipse.org property. Links can be absolute (e.g. <nowiki>http://www.eclipse.org/woolsey</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://eclipse.org/woolsey</nowiki>, or <nowiki>http://wiki.eclipse.org/Woolsey</nowiki>) or relative (e.g. <nowiki>/woolsey</nowiki>). Relative links are assumed to be relative to <nowiki>http://www.eclipse.org</nowiki>.
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|Newsgroups  || newsgroup || You can specify multiple newsgroups. This information is used to inform your community of the newsgroups and forums available for your project (the same information is used to render links to both newsgroups and forums). For each newsgroup/forum, you specify the name, optional description, and type. The name is as it appears on the news server (e.g. eclipse.woolsey). A short description will help visitors decide which newsgroup or forum to visit and so it is highly recommended that you provide a value here. Generally a project will have a single "main" newsgroup/forum. This information is used when rendering newsgroups (in cases where there is only room to list one, the main newsgroup/forum is listed).
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|Mailing Lists || mailinglist || You can specify multiple mailing lists. This information is used to inform your community of the mailing lists available for your project. For each mailing list, you specify the name, optional description, and type. The name is specified without the domain (e.g. woolsey-dev). A short description will help visitors decide which mailing list to use and so it is highly recommended that you provide a value here. Generally a project will have a single "main" mailing list. This information is used when rendering mailing lists (in cases where there is only room to list one, the main mailing list is listed).
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|Wiki        || wikiurl || This is a link to the project's landing page in the wiki. You may specify the URL as absolute (e.g. <nowiki>http://wiki.eclipse.org/Woolsey</nowiki>) or relative to the wiki root (e.g. /Woolsey). Note that however you choose to specify this value, the resulting URL must be relative to <nowiki>http://wiki.eclipse.org/</nowiki>.
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|Docs        || documentationurl ||  This is a single URL that points to the project's documentation. Typically this is a link into <nowiki>http://help.eclipse.org</wiki> (e.g. <nowiki>http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.egit.doc/help/EGit/User_Guide/User-Guide.html</nowiki>, but the link can be to any eclipse.org property. Relative links are assumed to be relative to <nowiki>http://www.eclipse.org</nowiki>.
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|Download    || downloadsurl || This is a single URL that points to the project's downloads. The link can be to any eclipse.org property. Relative links are assumed to be relative to <nowiki>http://www.eclipse.org</nowiki>.
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|}
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===Inheritence===
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==Where is Project Metadata Used==
Currently sub-projects/components can inherit from their parent project by setting the "Inherit" key in the meta-data editor.  This special key will cause web pages and other places where the meta-data is used, to override all values other than the projectname key.  This is typically used for very small projects or components which do not need to maintain much information.
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==Where is Project Metadata used?==
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Project metadata is used in a few different places today, and usage will continue to expand. Below are a few examples.
  
===/projects/ page===
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* Projects using [http://projects.eclipse.org/build-technology/tycho Tycho], or [https://projects.eclipse.org/build-technology/maven Maven]. The description and project logo are used here.
<table border="1">
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* Projects participating in the [https://projects.eclipse.org/releases/kepler Kepler simultaneous release]. We'll add a page that includes descriptions, logos, links to the project plan, and maybe contact information.
<tr><th>What</th><th>Data Storage w/ Link to How to Update</th></tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Project Name</td><td> <b>projectname</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Info Page</td><td>Standard format page for all projects</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Phase</td><td> Foundation internal database. Email [mailto:emo@eclipse.org emo@]
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Home Page</td><td> <b>projecturl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Newsgroup</td><td> <b>newsgroup.name</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Mailing List</td><td> <b>mailinglist.name</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Wiki</td><td> <b>wikiurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>IP Log</td><td> <b>iplogurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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The project description is used in a lot of different places. Keep your project description concise; it is a means by which you can encourage people to take a closer look at your project; do not try to describe every little nuance of your project in the description. Note that you can separate out a summary of your description that will be used in lieu of the longer form which will be displayed on the project page.
</td></tr>
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</table>
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===Standard project information page===
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E.g., [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=technology.dash Project Dash's standard information page]
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For those more visual people, there's also an [http://wiki.eclipse.org/Image:Standard-project-page-annotated.gif annotated screenshot] of a standard information page.
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<table border="1">
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<tr>
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    <td>Name</td><td> Foundation internal database. Email [mailto:emo@eclipse.org emo@]
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Download</td><td> <b>downloadsurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Description</td><td> <b>descriptionurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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This is a single URL for an HTML file in your project's web directory that contains a description of the project, its goals and
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perhaps its status. If the url points to an eclipse.org website page, we attempt to extract the midcolumn contents as the paragraph.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Logo</td><td> <b>logourl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Commits Activity</td><td> <b>sourcerepository</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Newsgroups</td><td> <b>newsgroup.*</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Mailing Lists</td><td> <b>mailinglist.*</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Source Repository</td><td> <b>sourcerepository.*</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Committers</td><td> Foundation internal database. Email [mailto:emo@eclipse.org emo@].
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Activity is taken from the [http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/ commits explorer]
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driven by <b>sourcerepository</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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<em>Active</em> is any commit activity in the last three months, <em>participating</em> is any
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in the last nine months.
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Company logos are shows for [http://www.eclipse.org/membership/ member companies]
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of active committers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Leaders</td><td> Foundation internal database. Email [mailto:emo@eclipse.org emo@]
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Update site</td><td> <b>updatesiteurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Releases</td><td> <b>release.*</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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Valid release status includes: scheduled, completed, tentative.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Bugs</td><td> <b>bugzilla</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Website</td><td> Foundation internal database. Email [mailto:emo@eclipse.org emo@]
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Wiki</td><td> <b>wikiurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Documentation</td><td> <b>documentationurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Articles</td><td> <b>articleurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Project Plan</td><td> <b>projectplanurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Mentors</td><td> Set by Architecture Council members using the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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===Project Plan Page===
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<table border="1">
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<tr><td>Project Plan</td><td> <b>projectplanurl</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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        Also see the [[Development_Resources/Project_Plan|documentation]].</td></tr>
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</table>
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===Mailing Lists Page===
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The eclipse.org [http://www.eclipse.org/mail list of mailing lists].
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<table border="1">
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<tr> <td>Mailing List</td><td> <b>mailinglist.*</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Topics</td><td> Foundation internal database. Email [mailto:emo@eclipse.org emo@]
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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===Newsgroups Page===
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The eclipse.org [http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/ list of newsgroups].
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<table border="1">
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<tr> <td>Newsgroup</td><td> <b>newsgroup.*</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Topics</td><td> Foundation internal database. Email [mailto:emo@eclipse.org emo@]
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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===Timeline===
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The eclipse.org [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/timeline/ timeline page].
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<table border="1">
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<td>Releases</td><td> <b>release.*</b> in the project meta data. Use the [http://portal.eclipse.org/ portal].
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Valid release status includes: scheduled, completed, tentative.</td></tr>
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</table>
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== When is project status information considered out-of-date?==
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Different kinds of information go out of date at different rates and        times, but here's an easy checklist:
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* All structural status information is out-of-date if it does not            match the infrastructure. For example, if the project has added a            new project-announce@ mailing list, but the project status files do           not list that mailing list, then they are out of date.
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* Status summaries must be updated at least once a quarter. It's            better to update them once a month.
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* Historical information (downloads, release information, and so on)            and status summaries need updating with each release (obviously).
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== Why is project status information important?==
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Eclipse projects belong to a larger community - Eclipse - which is comprised of not only the committers and developers on the project, but also the developers on other projects, plug-in developers outside the Eclipse projects, and the entire ecosystem surrounding Eclipse. In order to keep all these people up-to-date on the direction and status of the Eclipse projects, each project
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needs to provide timely and accurate descriptive and status information. (See "[http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#2_4_Eclipse_Ecosystem 2.4 Eclipse Ecosystem]" in the Eclipse Development Process.)
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The project status information drives a number of the       eclipse.org web pages including [http://www.eclipse.org/ the categories on the home page], [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dashboard/ the dashboard],        [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/timeline/ the timeline],        [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ lists of projects],        lists of [http://www.eclipse.org/mail/ mailing lists] and [http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/ newsgroups],        status pages, and more.
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== Using the Infrastructure==
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<span style="margin-right:6px; margin-top:5px; float:left; color:ivory; background:#FF9999; border:1px solid #444; font-size:30px; line-height:25px; padding-top:2px; padding-left:2px; padding-right:2px; font-family:times; ">R</span>All projects are [http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Project_Requirements.html required] to use the standard left menu on the project home page. See the [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status-infrastructure/left-menu.php detailed, but easy, instructions] for how to make that left menu appear.
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[[Category:Project Management Infrastructure]]
 
[[Category:Development_Resources]]
 
[[Category:Development_Resources]]
 
[[Category:How to Contribute]]
 
[[Category:How to Contribute]]
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[[Category:Project Metadata]]

Latest revision as of 14:40, 15 September 2015

This page's content has been moved to the Eclipse Project Handbook.

Use the Generated Content for Your Project Home Page

If you want to use this page as your project home page, change the contents of your project's index.php file to:

<?php
header("Location: http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/your.project.id");
?>

(with an appropriate substitution of your.project.id, e.g. technology.egit, of course).

Note that the automatically-generated pages will continue to grow, change, and be updated.

Where is Project Metadata Used

Project metadata is used in a few different places today, and usage will continue to expand. Below are a few examples.

  • Projects using Tycho, or Maven. The description and project logo are used here.
  • Projects participating in the Kepler simultaneous release. We'll add a page that includes descriptions, logos, links to the project plan, and maybe contact information.

The project description is used in a lot of different places. Keep your project description concise; it is a means by which you can encourage people to take a closer look at your project; do not try to describe every little nuance of your project in the description. Note that you can separate out a summary of your description that will be used in lieu of the longer form which will be displayed on the project page.

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