The Eclipse IDE is a modern and open IDE for cloud and desktop. The Theia IDE is based on the Theia platform. The Theia IDE is available as a downloadable desktop application. You can also try the latest version of the Theia IDE online. For more details, see the Readme below.
This PR's primary purpose is to suggest and/or clarify Theia IDE's purpose as more than merely a 'template' for developing custom applications based on the Theia platform, but also — indeed/perhaps primarily — as a 'minimum viable product' that can be used out-of-the-box. (Which should be supported by the development team as such.)
suggest[ed] that the secondary, indirect project goal of supporting end-users should be upgraded slightly, albeit not too much, to formally see it as one of the primary, direct project goals to provide a working, supported, demonstrated and easy-to-get-started-with end-to-end sample/example 'out-of-the-box' browser-based IDE
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Along the way this commit reorganizes and improves this entire paragraph/section. Particularly:
This commit also added a missing hyperlink to the Theia.cloud demo.
This commit removed the first sentence ("The Eclipse IDE is a modern and open IDE for cloud and desktop"), as in my opinion it may only add further confusion to a new user and the focus here in the README of the Theia IDE should be a clear communication of the purpose of this product (not the Eclipse IDE), and of the distinction and relation between Theia IDE and the Theia platform. (If it is truly important here to mention the Eclipse IDE I suggest that this sentence should be written more clearly, and also relocated e.g. to the end of the paragraph, rather than being the very first sentence.)
This commit relaxed the excessive '-based products based on' language.
How to test
The main task is to thoroughly consider, and discuss as needed, the high-level project's goals: I suggest that the Eclipse Theia project's goals should include — and arguably already do include, in truth — the full support of Theia IDE as a product (albeit a minimal product) for immediate use by users, as opposed to the Theia platform being a platform for development by developers.
Another task is to check that the correct Theia.cloud hyperlink was added. (Presumably so, since I just took it from the Theia website.) [And if this PR gets stuck in discussion, please consider meanwhile adding the Theia.cloud hyperlink in a separate PR, as there is really no reason it should not be here on the README in this paragraph when it is mentioned, in addition to on the website.]
Another task is to review generally the revised language of this section.
Review checklist
[x] as an author, I have thoroughly tested my changes and carefully followed the review guidelines
What it does
This PR's primary purpose is to suggest and/or clarify Theia IDE's purpose as more than merely a 'template' for developing custom applications based on the Theia platform, but also — indeed/perhaps primarily — as a 'minimum viable product' that can be used out-of-the-box. (Which should be supported by the development team as such.)
This PR thus seeks to resolve https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-website/pull/524, particularly the last paragraph in https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-website/pull/524#issuecomment-1977169270, where I
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Along the way this commit reorganizes and improves this entire paragraph/section. Particularly:
This commit also added a missing hyperlink to the Theia.cloud demo.
This commit removed the first sentence ("The Eclipse IDE is a modern and open IDE for cloud and desktop"), as in my opinion it may only add further confusion to a new user and the focus here in the README of the Theia IDE should be a clear communication of the purpose of this product (not the Eclipse IDE), and of the distinction and relation between Theia IDE and the Theia platform. (If it is truly important here to mention the Eclipse IDE I suggest that this sentence should be written more clearly, and also relocated e.g. to the end of the paragraph, rather than being the very first sentence.)
This commit relaxed the excessive '-based products based on' language.
How to test
The main task is to thoroughly consider, and discuss as needed, the high-level project's goals: I suggest that the Eclipse Theia project's goals should include — and arguably already do include, in truth — the full support of Theia IDE as a product (albeit a minimal product) for immediate use by users, as opposed to the Theia platform being a platform for development by developers.
Another task is to check that the correct Theia.cloud hyperlink was added. (Presumably so, since I just took it from the Theia website.) [And if this PR gets stuck in discussion, please consider meanwhile adding the Theia.cloud hyperlink in a separate PR, as there is really no reason it should not be here on the README in this paragraph when it is mentioned, in addition to on the website.]
Another task is to review generally the revised language of this section.
Review checklist
Reminder for reviewers