Re: MyEclipse Feature Request (Was:McKnight/Toronto/IBMisaway from the office)

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are committed to the Open Source route (and I hope you are) then 
I'd recommend a couple of things:

Get a Sourceforge project set up.  Go to www.sf.net and register and set 
up a free account. It with have an svn repository and a BB for you.  
Your existing web site and continue to provide all the information but 
SF would provide the svn repository for updates and downloads.  Nice 
features and all free.

Check with David Gibbs (owner of midrange.com) and see if we can move 
this WDSc plugins which is an "experimental" list.  Although this 
project would be an Eclipsed based replacement for WDSc, I think WDSc 
plugin would be a good characterization and would cut down traffic on 
this list.

Check with MyEclipse.  They might "reward" you (monetarily) if you 
wanted to contribute the code to MyEclipse.  You have a good start and 
you have several folks who appear willing (how able is anyone's guess!) 
to move this along.  Although MyEclipse is subscription based, they 
produce high quality Eclipse plugins and it might be a possible "home" 
for your plugin with some renumeration (although I don't know how it all 
works at MyEclipse).

Love to help if we can get the mechanics worked out.

Pete


Schmidt, Mihael wrote:
> Thanx for the php bb offer. I got some hosting possibilities myself.
>
> The road to a "good" editor is quite long and hard. But we'll see. 
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Guillermo Andrades, CPI Software
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. August 2008 14:48
> An: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
> Betreff: Re: [WDSCI-L] MyEclipse Feature Request (Was:McKnight/Toronto/IBMisaway from the office)
>
> I second the Aaron comments (well, don't understand these about
> email/calendar software).
>
> I think an RPG editor/CallCompiler in PC would be really useful for a lot of
> RPG programmers.
> I'm more interested in windows because the customers uses win mainly.
> I could recommend some pc RPG editor to customers of our CASE Tool and also
> to develop websites using RPG.
> SEU/PDM will be out of some shops in the near future.
>
> Of course I can also cooperate in some way, at least as a tester, I even can
> provide hosting for an php-bb forum and so on. (but sorry, no java coding
> while RPG+html+css+js would be enough).
>
> I think an "good" win PC RPG editor can "easily" be purchased (at USD 25
> year) for a lot (well, at least 2000, maybe 5000) of programmers, maybe not
> for founding a new M$.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Guillermo.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>   
> > > I was first thinking about making it a product for selling and making
> > >       
> > money
> > of it but that would mean a ton of work for me which i could probably never
> > finish.
> >
> > I know all about that feeling.  It is fun creating products, but support
> > and
> > "selling" takes some of the fun out of it (though it also adds a challenge
> > that can be fun).
> >
> > If I were you here is what I would do:
> >
> > 1) Allow the community to have a free beta copy for the foreseeable future
> > (maybe the next year or so) so the product can catch on and you can get
> > people submitting bug reports.
> >
> > 2) Put up a PHP BB (Bulletin Board) for support so users can help users
> > (load off your back).
> >
> > 3) After a year, release a more full featured version and charge
> > $25/yr/user.  At that price everybody can afford it and IT shops wont think
> > twice about buying a copy for every developer in their shop.  Make it
> > purchaseable via shopping basket so it isn't a load on your back.  I would
> > still have a free version so people can try it out for free for an
> > unlimited
> > amount of time.
> >
> > In the end if you either need to charge for it or make it open source for
> > it
> > to live on.  If you don't make money at it then it just becomes a hobby and
> > most times will be at the bottom of the priority list (not what we the
> > community want).
> >
> > Of course you could find some middle ground by charging for it and making
> > it
> > open source to a number of developers willing to submit bug *fixes* (no
> > just
> > bug fix requests).  I for one would love to be a part of the coding team as
> > an RPG editor is in the top five applications I use most often in my job
> > and
> > I could justify  "giving away" time for it.
> >
> > For now I will just submit bugs for the products benefit.  BTW, this is
> > what
> > I wish IBM would start doing with WDSC.  I am guessing there are so many
> > politics that doing something as simple as a web-ticket would cause
> > friction
> > amoung the factions.
> >
> > Thanks again for this tool that gets me one step closer to 100% Linux
> > desktop.  Now if I could just find a solid email/calendar software that
> > connects to Exchange well (Evolution freezes WAY to often right when I
> > don't
> > need it to).
> >
> > Aaron Bartell
> > http://mowyourlawn.com
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