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# Projects must have build process maturity and their own functional project update site - the Ganymede site will reference these sites, not replace them. | # Projects must have build process maturity and their own functional project update site - the Ganymede site will reference these sites, not replace them. | ||
# Projects must use 4-part [[Version Numbering|version numbers.]] | # Projects must use 4-part [[Version Numbering|version numbers.]] | ||
− | # Any third-party plug-ins that are common between projects must be consumed via [http://www.eclipse.org/orbit/ Orbit]; the final Ganymede release will not have duplicate third-party libraries (note that this only applies to identical versions of the libraries; thus if project A requires foo.jar 1.6 and project B uses foo.jar 1.7, that's ok). | + | # Any new (new during Ganymede) third-party plug-ins that are common between projects must be consumed via [http://www.eclipse.org/orbit/ Orbit]; the final Ganymede release will not have duplicate third-party libraries (note that this only applies to identical versions of the libraries; thus if project A requires foo.jar 1.6 and project B uses foo.jar 1.7, that's ok). |
# All plug-ins (bundles) must use the true bundle form. That is, provide a manifest.mf file, and not rely on the plugin.xml file being 'translated' into a manifest.mf file at initial startup. See [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130598 bug 130598]. | # All plug-ins (bundles) must use the true bundle form. That is, provide a manifest.mf file, and not rely on the plugin.xml file being 'translated' into a manifest.mf file at initial startup. See [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130598 bug 130598]. | ||
# All plug-ins must correctly list their required JVM versions in the manifest.mf. See the wiki page about selecting the correct JVM [http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/EMF_2.3_JVM_Requirements#Runtime_.2F_Compilation_Compatibility]. | # All plug-ins must correctly list their required JVM versions in the manifest.mf. See the wiki page about selecting the correct JVM [http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/EMF_2.3_JVM_Requirements#Runtime_.2F_Compilation_Compatibility]. | ||
− | # Project representatives must attend the planning meetings and conference calls - you have to be involved to be involved. | + | # Project representatives must attend the planning meetings and conference calls - you have to be involved to be involved. A few misses are ok, but chronic lack of attendance is a no-no. |
# At least one person from each project must subscribe to cross-project bug inbox, i.e. edit Bugzilla prefs to watch "cross-project.inbox@eclipse.org" | # At least one person from each project must subscribe to cross-project bug inbox, i.e. edit Bugzilla prefs to watch "cross-project.inbox@eclipse.org" | ||
# Build team members from each project will provide communication channels: phone, mail, IM, IRC and will be available during ''to-be-specified'' crucial integration times | # Build team members from each project will provide communication channels: phone, mail, IM, IRC and will be available during ''to-be-specified'' crucial integration times | ||
# Projects must have stated and demonstrated their intent to join Ganymede by the M4+0 date. Projects do so by adding themselves to the table/list above and to the Ganymede common build infrastructure. | # Projects must have stated and demonstrated their intent to join Ganymede by the M4+0 date. Projects do so by adding themselves to the table/list above and to the Ganymede common build infrastructure. | ||
− | # Projects | + | # Projects must have a written ramp down policy by M6+0. (One of the issues identified with this guideline is that its not so much the ramp down policy of how many votes are needed for each bug fix that we need to be consistent on, but rather the meaning of each of the milestones and release candidates. Here [http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/eclipse-project-home/plans/3_2/freeze_plan_3.2.html] is the Platform 3.2 ramp down policy as a guideline for other projects.) |
# Projects must have their IP approved (a normal Eclipse requirement) and will follow the Eclipse Legal deadlines to do so. | # Projects must have their IP approved (a normal Eclipse requirement) and will follow the Eclipse Legal deadlines to do so. | ||
# Projects must [[Update_Site_Optimization | optimize ]] their update site using [[Pack200 | pack200 ]] to reduce bandwidth utilization and provide a better update experience for users. Additionally, they should do site digesting. | # Projects must [[Update_Site_Optimization | optimize ]] their update site using [[Pack200 | pack200 ]] to reduce bandwidth utilization and provide a better update experience for users. Additionally, they should do site digesting. | ||
− | # Projects must use signed plugins using the Eclipse certificate. | + | # Projects must use signed plugins using the Eclipse certificate. Exceptions authorized by the planning council for technical reasons. |
− | # Projects must have | + | # Projects must have use jar'ed plug-ins unless there are technical reasons. |
+ | # Projects must use Eclipse message bundles unless there are technical reasons not to. | ||
====Should Do==== | ====Should Do==== |
Revision as of 17:27, 12 November 2007
This page is for developers of the Ganymede Simultaneous Release. If you are a consumer of the Release, perhaps a tester or an early adopter, you'll want Ganymede Simultaneous Release For Users. Note that the master page on the eclipse.org site points here.
Contents
Projects
The projects that plan to participate in the Ganymede Simultaneous Release are listed below, along with their milestone offsets and their project lead.
Project/Component | Project/Component Lead(s) | Release Eng'g | Offset |
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BIRT | Wenfeng Li | Xiaoying Gu | +2 |
Buckminster | Thomas Hallgren, Henrik Lindberg | Thomas Hallgren | +2 |
CDT | Doug Schaefer | Vivian Kong | +1 |
DLTK | Andrey Platov | Andrey Platov | +1 |
DSDP DD | Pawel Piech | Ted Williams | +2 |
DSDP TM | Martin Oberhuber | Martin Oberhuber | +2 |
DTP | John Graham | +1 | |
ECF | Scott Lewis | Ted Kubaska/Scott Lewis | +1 |
The Eclipse Project (Platform, JDT, PDE and Equinox) | Philippe Mulet | Kim Moir | 0 |
EMF | Ed Merks
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Nick Boldt | +1 |
EMFT | Ed Merks
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Nick Boldt | +2 |
GEF | Anthony Hunter | Anthony Hunter | +1 |
GMF | Richard Gronback | Max Feldman | +2 |
MDT | Kenn Hussey
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Nick Boldt | +2 |
M2T | Paul Elder | Nick Boldt | +2 |
Mylyn | Mik Kersten | +1 | |
SOA Tools Platform (STP) Project | Oisin Hurley | Oisin Hurley | +2 |
TPTP (Platform, Test, Trace, Monitoring) | Joanna Kubasta | Joel Cayne | +2 |
Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project | David Williams | David Williams | +2 |
Requirements For Participation
Projects that are part of Ganymede agree to abide by the following requirements. Unlike the somewhat lax enforcement of previous years, the EMO will remove projects that do not meet the required constraints.
Must Do
These are required for participation:
- The projects must work together. This means that one should be able to load any subset of the Ganymede projects into Eclipse and each of the loaded projects should be able to pass all the same tests as if it had been loaded independently.
- Projects must have build process maturity and their own functional project update site - the Ganymede site will reference these sites, not replace them.
- Projects must use 4-part version numbers.
- Any new (new during Ganymede) third-party plug-ins that are common between projects must be consumed via Orbit; the final Ganymede release will not have duplicate third-party libraries (note that this only applies to identical versions of the libraries; thus if project A requires foo.jar 1.6 and project B uses foo.jar 1.7, that's ok).
- All plug-ins (bundles) must use the true bundle form. That is, provide a manifest.mf file, and not rely on the plugin.xml file being 'translated' into a manifest.mf file at initial startup. See bug 130598.
- All plug-ins must correctly list their required JVM versions in the manifest.mf. See the wiki page about selecting the correct JVM [1].
- Project representatives must attend the planning meetings and conference calls - you have to be involved to be involved. A few misses are ok, but chronic lack of attendance is a no-no.
- At least one person from each project must subscribe to cross-project bug inbox, i.e. edit Bugzilla prefs to watch "cross-project.inbox@eclipse.org"
- Build team members from each project will provide communication channels: phone, mail, IM, IRC and will be available during to-be-specified crucial integration times
- Projects must have stated and demonstrated their intent to join Ganymede by the M4+0 date. Projects do so by adding themselves to the table/list above and to the Ganymede common build infrastructure.
- Projects must have a written ramp down policy by M6+0. (One of the issues identified with this guideline is that its not so much the ramp down policy of how many votes are needed for each bug fix that we need to be consistent on, but rather the meaning of each of the milestones and release candidates. Here [2] is the Platform 3.2 ramp down policy as a guideline for other projects.)
- Projects must have their IP approved (a normal Eclipse requirement) and will follow the Eclipse Legal deadlines to do so.
- Projects must optimize their update site using pack200 to reduce bandwidth utilization and provide a better update experience for users. Additionally, they should do site digesting.
- Projects must use signed plugins using the Eclipse certificate. Exceptions authorized by the planning council for technical reasons.
- Projects must have use jar'ed plug-ins unless there are technical reasons.
- Projects must use Eclipse message bundles unless there are technical reasons not to.
Should Do
These are recommended for participating projects:
- Projects should have jar'ed plug-ins because this is good Eclipse citizenship.
- Projects should use Eclipse message bundles, not Java bundles because this is a good Eclipse citizenship. (see Message Bundle Conversion Tool and [3])
- Build reproducibility? Require that projects be buildable by community members. Should be identical bits (but not required). All build assets and documentation in CVS/Subversion.
- Non-project-team-members should be able to build each project.
- Non-project-team-members should be able to run unit tests on each project.
- Source tarballs should be created for Linux distros to build with.
- Should have new & noteworthy for each milestone. Should be something readable and usable not just a static list of all the bugs. Corollary: individual new & noteworthy should be linked in to the collective New & Noteworthy.
- Projects should use ICU4J when appropriate.
- Projects should provide build RSS feeds as per the build workshop.
Milestones and Release Candidates
These milestone and release candidate dates are based on the dependencies of the projects (we call these the +0, +1, and +2 dependencies). Obviously, if a +0 date slips, then it will cause the +1 and +2 dates to slip; similarly for a +1 slip causing +2 slips. Note that the +0, +1, +2, and +3 dates are roughly equivalent to stable nightly builds in a traditional Eclipse project - each of these partial milestone builds will incorporate more and more of the associated project milestones. The "Release" date is the official M/RC date.
Staging | Release | ||||
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+0 | +1 | +2 | +3 | ||
M2 | Sep 21 | Sep 26 | Oct 3 | Oct 5 | Oct 9 |
M2+ | Oct 22 | Oct 24 | Oct 25 | ||
M3 | Nov 2 | Nov 5 | Nov 12 | Nov 14 | Nov 20 |
M4 | Dec 14 | Dec 17 | Jan 7 | Jan 8 | Jan 11 |
M5 | Feb 8 | Feb 11 | Feb 18 | Feb 20 | Feb 26 |
M6 - API Freeze | Mar 28 | Mar 31 | Apr 7 | Apr 9 | |
M7 | May 2 | May 5 | May 6 | May 7 | |
RC1 | May 16 | May 19 | May 20 | May 21 | |
RC2 | May 23 | May 26 | May 27 | May 28 | |
RC3 | May 30 | Jun 2 | Jun 3 | Jun 4 | |
RC4 | Jun 6 | Jun 9 | Jun 10 | Jun 11 | |
Ganymede | June 25 (Wednesday) |
Communication
Cross-Project Milestone & RC Status Reporting
In the past, status reporting has been done via the mailing list(s). This year it's been suggested that as with Europa Winter Maintenance we reduce the email clutter and just use a wiki table instead.
Conference Calls
TBA. See also Europa Conference Calls.
Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
Eclipse projects have three communication channels: a mailing list for developers, a newsgroup for users, and Bugzilla. Ganymede, although not a "project" per se, will use the same structure:
- cross-projects-issues-dev - mailing list for developers and releng (see archives)
- eclipse.simultaneous-release - newsgroup for users (see archives)
- bugzilla (new & search) Eclipse Foundation > Community > Cross-Project
The old eclipse.org-planning-council mailing list will be used for non-Ganymede Planning Council items.
Ganymede Builds
A number of utilities have been written to automate the assembly of Callisto '06, Europa '07 and now Ganymede '08 builds. These are available in their own CVS respository. You can find more information about how this is organized and individual project responsibilities for the build on this Ganymede Build page (and old information on the Europa Build page).
The Ganymede Build page is where you go to learn how to add your project to the Ganymede build.