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Informal Polls

So Brian and I completed our webinar today (thanks for attending!) and we took advantage of the option to customize our questions at the end.

Here are the results:

  • Do you develop plug-ins or plan to within the next 6 months?
    • 87% (75) – Yes
    • 8% (7) – No
    • 5% (4) – Don’t Know
  • Do you build RCP applications or plan to within the next 6 months?
    • 64% (52) – Yes
    • 22% (18) – No
    • 14% (11) – Don’t Know
  • What version of Eclipse are you using today?
    • 16% (14) – 3.4
    • 76% (65) – 3.3
    • 7% (6) – 3.2
    • 1% (1) – 3.1
    • 0% (0) – 3.0
  • What version of Eclipse are you shipping products on?
    • 10% (8) – 3.4
    • 62% (48) – 3.3
    • 8% (6) – 3.2
    • 0% (0) – 3.1
    • 0% (0) – 3.0

I always had a personal interest in how quickly products adopt new releases of Eclipse. The problem with most products is that they are on different release schedules (ie., 18-24 months) compared to the Eclipse 12 month cycle. The challenge is to decide when to move up and if you decide to skip a release, how do you portray that decision to your customers if they complain they can’t use some cool “Paul Webster” (eg., org.eclipse.ui.menus) feature from the latest Eclipse? I also wonder if the circadian release cycle of Eclipse forces other teams to become a bit more agile when it comes to releasing products instead of being stuck in that crappy 24 month cycle.

On a side note, I feel sorry for the one pour soul using Eclipse 3.1 according to the webinar stats 🙁