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Acceleo/ReleaseReview/Indigo

Indigo Release Review - Acceleo 3.1

Indigo Simultaneous Release

Release Review and Graduation Review

Mariot Chauvin (mariot.chauvin@obeo.fr)

Release Review : Mai 11, 2011

Communication Channel : eclipse.modeling.m2t newsgroup

Process Documentation : http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php

Project Plan : http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/acceleo/plan-indigo.xml

Indigo Release Highlights

New and noteworthy

Language improvements

  • Support for documentation for templates, queries and modules.
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  • Support for TODO and FIXME
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Tooling improvements

  • Improved real time error detections with new errors detected and warning support.
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  • Brand new wizard for the creation of new projects and new modules.
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  • Documentation in completion and hover
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  • New outline view
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  • Improved support for metamodels that have not been deployed in a plugin.
  • New refactoring options

Ant and Maven support

The compilation and the generation can be launched with dedicated Ant tasks and now Acceleo can generated tycho based pom.xml file to build an Acceleo project with maven.

New serialization option

Support of binary resource serialization for Acceleo modules.

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Acceleo 3.1 is compatible with Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede), Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo), Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) and Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo).

Quality of APIs

The component lead certifies that the requirements for Eclipse Quality APIs have been met for this release. All non-API code is in "internal" packages.

End of Life Issues

None

Committer Diversity

4 Committers from Obeo, and 2 individual committers.

IP Issues

The about files and use licenses are in place as per the Guidelines to Legal Documentation.

CQ 2518 - The Content includes items that have been sourced from the OMG MTL 1.0 specification : http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/

All other contributions (code, documentation, images, etc) have been committed by individuals who are either Members of the Foundation, or have signed the appropriate Committer Agreement. In either case, these are individuals who have signed, and are abiding by, the Eclipse IP Policy. The other contributions of the IP log are not significant or are written 100% by employees of the same employer (Obeo) as the Submitting Committer (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf).

All contribution Questionnaires have been completed.

The "provider" field of each plugin is set to "Eclipse Modeling Project".

The "copyright" field of each plugin is set to the copyright owner.

Any third-party logos or trademarks included in the distribution (icons, logos, etc) have been licensed under the EPL.

The Acceleo IP log is located at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=modeling.m2t.acceleo

Non-Code Aspects

Unit tests

1803 unit tests are launched every day.

Code coverage is about:

  • 82 % of the traceability engine
  • 80 % of the compiler
  • 65.7 % of the code generation engine

Code quality

Checkstyle activated on each distinct plug-in.

Eclemma used on a regular basis to improve test coverage.

Yourkit used on a regular basis to improve performances.

Javadoc represents more than 44% of the Java source code.

An Ohloh page is available at http://www.ohloh.net/p/acceleo-eclipse/analyses/latest

APIs

Metamodel definitions and interfaces are considered APIs.

Commitment to provide stand-alone code generation.

Non-API classes are separated from the exposed API through an "internal" namespace.

API Tooling is activated on all plugins to mark exceptions within the exposed API.

Non-API packages are exported with an internal visibility as such they are visible but with an illegal access warning.

Documentation

The documentation that comes with Acceleo 3.1 is available in the Help menu : Acceleo Model To Text Transformation Language.

Each document of the documentation set deals with a different aspect of mastering Acceleo : There are a Plug-in Overview, a Quick Start, an Android Code Generation Tutorial, a User Guide, several short tutotials to create code generation projects, an Acceleo/OCL operations reference to describe the Acceleo/OCL library, and a Text Production Rules document.

The main documentation is the User Guide because it fully describes each and every feature of Acceleo. From the installation to the execution with a trip through the editing features, it gives an in-depth description of everything there is to know about Acceleo.

Basic Examples are available in the example category : UML to Java, and Ecore to Python.

There is also a basic information page on the Eclipse Wiki http://wiki.eclipse.org/Acceleo

Bugzilla

NEW RESOLVED VERIFIED CLOSED TOTAL
blocker 0 1 0 4 5
critical 2 0 0 3 5
major 5 0 0 19 24
normal 38 4 0 129 171
minor 5 0 0 10 15
enhancement 15 3 0 26 44
TOTAL 65 8 0 191 264

Note : these figures are subject to changes as the whole team is in the process of fixing bugs until the final release (this snapshot has been taken on May 17, 2011)‏

Tool usability

Localization : integrated into Babel

Standards

This implementation of Acceleo is based on the OMG MOF Model-To-Text OMG Standard : http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/

End of Life

There are no specific end of life concerns for this release.

Communities

Talks have been given on the following events:

Other medium:


Committer Changes

Stephane Begaudeau is now committer on Acceleo

Mariot Chauvin is now committer on Acceleo and new project lead

Schedule

Since the feature freeze our commitment was to follow the EMF and the MDT OCL builds as closely as possible.

Acceleo 3.1 Release Plan

M1	08/18/2009	
M2	09/29/2009	
M3	11/10/2009	
M4	12/15/2009	
M5	02/02/2010	
M6	03/16/2010	
M7	05/04/2010	
RC1	05/17/2010	
RC2	05/25/2010	
RC3	06/01/2010	
RC4	06/08/2010	
Final	06/16/2010	
3.1	06/23/2010

The schedule used is matching the schelude of the release train for "+2" projects.

Project Plan

The Indigo project plan is available at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/acceleo/plan-indigo.xml

What's next?

Legal Notices

Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Oracle, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both.

UML, OMG, EMOF, OCL and XMI are trademarks of the Object Management Group.

Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.



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