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Project Management Infrastructure/Project Metadata

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Revision as of 12:40, 15 March 2013 by Wayne.eclipse.org (Talk | contribs) (Source Repositories)

What is Project Metadata?

  1. Relatively static structural information such as the project description and scope, the names of the project's mailing lists and newsgroups, the bugzilla products, source code repositories, etc.
  2. Historical information such as previous release downloads, release review slides and IP logs, etc.
  3. Status and future looking information such as the project and milestone plans, the features scheduled for the current release, release dates, etc.

Who maintains it?

Eclipse committers and project leads are responsible for maintaining their project's metadata. This information is an important part of being an Eclipse project.

Viewing and Editing Project Metadata

The complete listing of all current Eclipse projects provides one starting point for viewing projects. From here, you can link directly to a project information page. Navigation options are provided to help you move from one project to another.

Here is an example of a project page (visit the live project page).

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If you are a project committer, you can authenticate with the system by clicking the "Login" link. Once logged in, you will have the ability to edit the information being displayed.

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There are several sections on the page. When you switch the page into "Edit" mode, you will be provided with lots of help regarding the contents of each of the fields (note that the help text is currently rendered below the fields).

Description and Scope

At the top are the description and the scope. The description should be suitable for display with a collection of other projects (e.g. Use of Maven Build Technology). A single paragraph is generally appropriate for the description.

The scope is intended for a more select audience; generally speaking the scope should be taken directly from the project's proposal. Project members have the ability to change the text of the project scope, but should be careful to avoid changing the meaning. If the meaning of the scope needs to change, consult your PMC regarding a restructuring review.

Source Repositories

The project can specify zero or more source repositories. These are displayed in the "Contribute to this Project" section.

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The values specified are used to query against a database of known existing repositories. Only those repositories that actually exist are displayed.

The name that is displayed for the repository is extracted from the last segment of the URL.

If a description file exists in the Git repository, the contents are displayed under the repository name.

The script that we us to identify repositories attempts to identify a corresponding Gerrit interface for the repository. If it exists, the Gerrit URL is used in place of the Git one. If the repository uses Gerrit, then only the Gerrit URL is displayed. Otherwise, the "git://" and "ssh://" URLs are displayed.

The script also searches for GitHub and Google Source mirrors. If they exist, they are displayed in this section. The "clipboard" icon will, when clicked, copy the URL to the clipboard.

You can use wildcards to match multiple repositories, e.g. '/gitroot/virgo/*'.

Repositories are displayed in the order they are specified. The order can be changed in the edit screen by dragging entries into the desired order. All wildcard matches are sorted alphabetically by name at the end of the list.

Company Logos

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This isn't currently implemented. See bug 403494.

Company logos sometimes appear under the project members on the right. Here's what you need in order to get your company's logo to show up in this pane:

  • The company must be a member of the Eclipse Foundation;
  • The company needs to have their logo uploaded to the Portal;
  • At least one committer has to be listed as an employee of the company in question;
  • The committer must be on this project; and
  • The committer must be active (must have made at least one commit in the last three months)

If all of those conditions are met and the logo is still not showing up, then it’s possible that the project meta-data doesn’t have the correct version control paths specified–this affects whether the committer is considered active by the dashboard.

More

There is a lot more information displayed on this page. We'll fill in these details over the coming days and weeks.

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.

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