Eclipse/Helios/Retrospective

Less drama than in 3.5
Dates (milestones, RCs) worked well
Bugzilla performance is much better
CVS problems have been fixed
Help from Frederic with performance is appreciated
Thank you to John for continually keeping the plan up to date
Early freeze for big features in M5 helped downstream teams adopt those new features
Integration builds worked better than last year
Impressed by what we accomplished when looking at N&N document
Performance bugs opened by Frederic were dealt with promptly. Thanks!
API tools worked better than before
Liked the changes to splash screen for different milestones

Two day test pass against RC2 too late ⇒ should be earlier, e.g. after M7/RC0
Teams forgot I build submissions, this should not happen
Polish wiki page and its intent was not know to everybody ⇒ announce to bigger audience and explain its intention in the wiki
By comparing to the baseline, we don't catch cases where performance improvements are lost due to later regressions in the same development cycle
Wiki pages are a pain to search (you are better off using Google search to find anything in there)
Documentation not good enough (McQ: it's a tradeoff between doc vs. dev, you have to plan and allocate time for documentation)

We should point out cases where performance improvements have been made (rather than only focusing on regressions)
Would be good to have someone analog to Frederic but focusing on overall Eclipse user experience
JDT Core team lost too many members in too short a time period
Do we need more internal documentation to help with team transitions? (Up to the component leads to ensure this!)
Please make sure you move bugs that are misfiled to other components in a timely fashion.
Should we have more point releases (more frequently?)
Might be a good idea to test the EPP packages mid-milestone to avoid late breaking bugs later on in the release.
Need to allocate time to make our project web sites more attractive

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