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Eclipse/Mars Retrospective
This page captures notes for the Mars retrospective to be discussion at one of our Eclipse project weekly architecture call.
Each component should add its items to this page.
Platform UI
Update of BREE
Good: We updated most of our plug-ins to Java 1.7, which allowed us to update our code basis
Bad: By the current BREE update rule were forced to argue for every single plug-in, why we need this. If you compare this with JDT UI which upgraded all plug-ins at once with one comm,it we lost lot of energy and time. Reference commit http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git/commit/?id=e44d6cf0cde7fe2f2a4c30c23ed863ecc2a249e9
Discussion: I think we should loosen the rule, from the end user perspective I see no advantages of keeping this rule, especially if some project already act differently. How did JDT Core did the update? One plug-in by one, or all in one go?