Small Project : create an AI bot to query the Eclipse documentation

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🎯 An Eclipse AI Doc Assistant

Getting a relevant information relative to Eclipse documentation in any language

📘 Context & Objective

Eclipse documentation is huge and there are a lot of sources to browse. Each Eclipse release contains more than 150 Mb of help files (see discussion #4 ), but there are also a lot of web site with relevant documentation or question asked (like stack overflow).

The Eclipse documentation can be used either to develop/maintain a RCP application or to contribute to the Eclipse projects organized in a lot of different sites and repositories (github.com/eclipse-plaform, github.com/eclipse-egit, etc...).

This make the learning curve very steep and it can be hard to onboard on such development.

This small projects aims to start a reflexion on how to simplify and help any new contributor or developer to use the platform.

In one word, the goal of this project would be to provide a kind of "numeric mentor", always available and skilled in this domain.

📦 Deliverables

• Current state of the documentation : will check what, where, how to use the current documentation. What is relevant and provided ?
• Feasibility and needed resources : what we need to do it ? Local AI ? Specific hosting ? Tock usage ?
• A first prototype of a plugin providing a prompt zone and a display zone to ask a sample documtantion. This plugin will validate the technical choices and the viability of the project.
• A complete plugin with all the relevant documentation included
• An entry available on the Eclipse market place

⏳ Estimated Duration

4 full weeks

🛠️ Required Skills

• Soft skills : curious, pioneer, interesting in new technologies
• Java (Intermediate level)
• Eclipse Plugin Development (can be learned during the project)
• Basics of AI / Langchain4j (can be learned during the project)
• Open conversation Kit (Tock) (can be learned during the project)
• Git & GitHub workflow
• Documentation writingTeam collaboration (if done in pairs/groups)

👥 Mentorship & Resources

• Mentors : Olivier Prouvost, Hannes Wellman, any other interested in this project (add you here)
• Main Repository: To be defined : could be in this organization, or anywhere (we could have more than one implementation and keep the best one)
• Vogella tutorial
• AI Resources: Langchain4j

This description is opened to discussion and upgrades