what-is-incubation.php

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<h1>What is Incubation?</h1>
<div style="float: right; border: 1px dashed black; 
background-color: #FFFFDD;"><table><tr><td width="150px">See 
"<a href="/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#6_2_3_Incubation">6.2.3 Incubation Phase</a>"
in the Eclipse Development Process</td>
</tr></table></div><blockquote><em>After the project has been created, the purpose of the incubation 
phase is to establish a fully-functioning open-source project. In this context, 
incubation is about developing the process, the community, and the technology. 
Incubation is a phase rather than a place: new projects may be incubated under 
any existing Top-Level Project.
</li></ol></em></blockquote>

<p>The web page you were last at (<code><?= @$HTTP_REFERER ?></code>)
belongs to an Eclipse Project that is in the Incubation Phase.  Incubation
indicates that the Eclipse community is helping this project "learn the
ropes" about being a full open source project producing high quality
extensible frameworks and exemplary tools. Projects typically stay in the
incubation phase for a year or two before graduating to the Mature Phase.
<p>
The classification of a project in the Incubation Phase is not a statement
about the quality of the project's code - it may be good (in fact, Eclipse
Projects are often excellent), it may not - as with all open-source projects,
that is for you to decide. Rather, Incubation Phase is more about the 
project team's progress in practicing the open and public processes necessary
to establish the <a href="/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#2_5_Three_Communities">three communities</a> (developers, adopters, and users) around the project.
<p>
For more information about Incubation Phase, read the <a href="/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#6_2_3_Incubation">Eclipse Development Process</a>
and/or the <a href="/projects/dev_process/incubation-phase.php">Guidelines for Incubation Phase</a>.


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