Service Fabric and Communication subcategories

[chheis]

Migrated from PLeVasseur/eclipse-sdv-projects-landscape2#20
Original author: @budrus
Original URL: PLeVasseur/eclipse-sdv-projects-landscape2#20

I'm struggling a bit with your current subcategories in Service Fabric and Communication
I did not create a pull request as there is a) unfortunately no clear definition or the boundaries are blurry and b) I cannot speak for others.

My point is that iceoryx, for me, is a shared memory communication technology, which is for sure within the middleware domain but not a communication protocol which is typically associated with an on-wire format to communicate over a network. Zenoh is for me much more of a protocol than iceoryx and Zenoh is in the Middleware and Frameworks subcategory. We could introduce 'Data Plane' as the subcategory for iceoryx but this would mean introducing even more subcategories and maybe further discussions.

My suggestion would be to merge Middleware and Frameworks and Communication Protocols in a category Communication Middleware and Protocols. I'm also struggling with Eclipse Heimlig though

What are your thoughts?

@PLeVasseur @chheis

[chheis]

Migrated comment from @chheis on 2026-03-19T08:08:28Z

Hi @budrus thanks for opening the issue. I will move all issues to our official Eclipse Project this week, so i will mention you there and we start the discussion within the group. As you are a project lead of Eclipse Iceoryx, your input is very helpful.
I agree in the point of creating new subcategories, this does not make it easier.
I like your approach of merging.

If you like to get activ in the definition of the categorization as well, you can also create Tags and add them to your project on the Eclipse Project PMI Page. Currently you just have "IoT and Edge" there.