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<p><b>Overview<br>
</b>The Eclipse Technology Top Level Project (the &quot;Eclipse Technology
Project&quot;) is an open source software project for the incubation of
small-scale, innovative platform and tools projects.</p>
<p><b>Mission</b><br>
The mission of the Eclipse Technology Project is to provide a temporary home
within the Eclipse Foundation for small, newer, early adopter-type Projects
which add new capabilities to the Eclipse software base. The Eclipse Technology
Project is intended to provide the open source community with a lighter weight
alternative to the larger scale, more structured development activities carried
out by other PMCs until the new projects are ready to join their destination PMC.</p>
<p><b>Scope</b><br>
The scope of the Eclipse Technology Project will encompass a wide variety of
small early-stage Projects, rather than a few large ones. While anticipating
enormous diversity in the content of these activities, from a process-oriented
viewpoint they will all share important common characteristics, which argues for
a common management envelope:</p>
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<li>Use of lighter weight, but still formal development processes&nbsp;</li>
<li>Fluid Project tracking due to frequent plan changes&nbsp;</li>
<li>Flexible milestones which adapt based on partial results&nbsp;</li>
<li>Small teams, relatively inexperienced in open-source software
development&nbsp;</li>
<li>Definitive plans to move to mature the project and then move it to the
appropriate Top-Level Project.</li>
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<p>The Eclipse Technology Project serves as a single point of focus for such
teams, and provides them with a home within the Eclipse community, to encourage
communication, and where appropriate, collaboration and coordination. Providing
common management for these Projects facilitates maximum sharing and creation of
common components, and avoids redundant efforts. The goal of successful projects
is to migrate to other PMCs, either by merging into an existing Project, or by
forming the basis for a new one.</p>
<p><b>Other Terms<br>
</b>This Charter inherits all terms not otherwise defined herein from the &quot;<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/processes/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.html">Eclipse
Standard Charter v1.0</a>&quot;. This includes, but is not limited to, sections
on the Program Management Committee, Roles, Project Organization, The
Development Process, and Licensing.</p>
<p><b>Project Management Committee <br>
</b>Changes from the &quot;<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/processes/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.html">Eclipse
Standard Charter v1.0</a>&quot; are:</p>
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<li>Providing the leadership and vision to guide the Project's overall
direction in a manner consistent with the <strike>Eclipse Foundation
Architectural Roadmap</strike> Eclipse Foundation's goals. </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Projects <br>
</b>Changes from the &quot;<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/processes/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.html">Eclipse
Standard Charter v1.0</a>&quot; are: </p>
<p>The work under this Top Level Project is further organized into Projects. New
Projects must be consistent with the mission of the Top Level Project, <b>have
an explicit plan for reaching their destination top-level project, </b>be
recommended by the PMC, and confirmed by the EMO. Projects can be discontinued
by decision of the Board.
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