New preferences for Eclipse

This is just a small update to let you know that Eclipse preferences which I have described in my last post are hosted in Eclipse labs here together with usage description.

New preferences for Eclipse

It has been long time since I recently blogged on Planet Eclipse, but as an Eclipse Support Center we have been incredibly busy during the recent year. Last time I have mentioned preferences issues that are pretty often reported and left without a fix, because of Equinox preference limitations.
We had no other choice to solve customer woes than to start a closer cooperation with Poznan University of Technology, and a group of excellent students, as a part of their thesis, analysed, designed and coded a separate preferences module, which addresses (almost) all issues in "old" preferences that we have been aware off.

Check out their webcast - it is definitely worth it (for some reason the video does not get displayed on Planet Eclipse, you have to refer to the original blog entry or directly to Youtube).

The project was started in Eclipse labs, but we would like to move it to incubator. Could any of full time commiters guide us through the process of code donation? Any help will be deeply appreciated.

The code itself requires further work, like adding proper licensing headers, project naming issues, etc. I expect the code will be ready for reviews and donations before the end of month.

Those excellent students that did that thing are:
Marek Kuzora
Anna Ferster
Filip Wisniewski (responsible for the editor)

Congratulations!

Note: Poznan University of Technology has more excellent students which would like to get experience in commercial environment (and write their thesis, too). So if you have any non-business-critical project (or research project) to realize, please drop me a line (krzysztof.daniel somewhere at pl.ibm.com), and I will contact you with appropriate person.