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= Meeting Minutes =
 
= Meeting Minutes =
'''December 19, 2012''' - McQ, Andrew, Martin?, John, Dani
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* Dani: Do we want to remove CVS from the SDK? ({{bug|393195}})
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July 1, 2015 -- no meeting
** Decided to keep CVS in the SDK but should make sure Git is part of the packages (EPP). Dani to file bugs.
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* No call next week
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'''December 12, 2012''' - McQ, Andrew, Martin, John, Dani
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'''June 24, 2015''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Alex
* Dani: Project restructuring hickups
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* Dani: '''Java 9''' - <a href="http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-java%E2%84%A2-9-support-beta-mars">EAR Feature Patch</a> on the Marketplace NOW
* John: '''EclipseCon''' - schedule going out - some interesting Platform talks related to e4
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** No JARs any more - JRE is doing things internally using "jimage" format; updated search etc to create projects and work against them
** Some off-program sessions planned, eg CBI - it's easy to build Platform on your own PC now ... room set up
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** If the Jimage filesystem provider isn't backported, one has to run the IDE on Java9 in order to code Java9
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** Modules are just a list of packages (and can refer to other modules) - no real JSR describing the plan yet - seems like just a replacement of "Profiles" (and JARs)
  
 
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'''December 5, 2012''' - McQ, Dani, Andrew, Martin, John
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'''June 17, 2015''' - Dani, John, Martin, Alex
* John: '''4.2 Endgame Plan'''
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* John: '''Mars''' Platform in good shape for Mars - EPP respin for Error Reporting
* Martin: Some news on [[e4/Scripting]].
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* Dani: '''Crashes with Java 8''' - Potentially will add to the online README
* Dani: '''JDT Core leadership''' potential change by Jan 1
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** Happens in the JIT, with latest Oracle Java 8 (with 8 Cores and very specific circumstances)
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** See {{Bug|465693}} - Probably https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8078262
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* Alex: '''XDG Application''' - looks like Docker but a similar idea
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** Environment description of the runtime - helps specifying the line-up of library versions that we test against and use
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** Big part of GNOME / GTK already pushing for it, might make sense to consider alignment
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** GNOME working towards compiling with a really old compiler, such that the physically identical bits can run against a large set of distros
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** See https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps
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** But if you want to try it out please read https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/06/17/testing-rawhide-apps-using-xdg-app/
  
 
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'''November 28, 2012''' - McQ, Dani, Andrew, Martin, John
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* Project Reorg - just need to go through committer list and nominate
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'''June 10, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin
* McQ: '''Support for versions &lt; 3.6''' -- Will copy a CVS snapshot to inhouse for 3.5.x builds; 1 change every 2-3 months; most fixes go into multiple Streams
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* Dani: 4.5RC4 looking good, no more fixes planned
** Had been checking into CVS for older streams, now CVS has some newer stuff than git on the old streams
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* Dani: Working on Java 9 feature patch
** Source modifications are attached as a patch to the bug to satisfy the EPL
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* Alex: PC discussing a change in the release train
*** Patch on the bug is likely the best, since it provides traceability to the problem (target milestone eg "3.5.2+")
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** Current common ground seems to be a request for more release points, and projects could decide whether they do features or maintenance
* John: '''CVS Migration''' - basebuilder is the only active module, rest could be made read-only any time.
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** From Platform point of view, stability is key. Some key contributors not interested doing
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** Martin: How to also cater to contributors who want their contributions released soon ?
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*** Martin Idea: With Tycho, building the Platform is easier so ask contributors build themselves
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*** Or, open up a new "experimental" stream ?
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*** Dani Idea: Market milestone builds differently, as "fully consumable" would serve the same purpose
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* Martin: Tested eclipse-installer (Oomph), looking really really good now
  
 
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'''November 21, 2012''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John
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'''June 3, 2015''' - Alex, Dani, Martin, McQ, John
* Dani: Replace '''ICU Base''' from Platform Downloads with Link to Orbit
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* Dani: '''Mars Endgame'''
* Website Migration, Eclipsecon submission reviews
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* Dani: Please vote for release review
* jsr14 - no longer needed, there's a hope that Java 8 is going to provide smaller profiles
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* John: '''4.2 Performance Patch''' going to be available soon
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'''November 14, 2012''' - McQ, Dani, John, Martin
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'''May 20, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ
* McQ: Anybody still consuming '''SWT for Windows CE''' ? - Don't know, eRCP project state also unknown; will likely drop WinCE, but asked on the mailing list.
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* Dani: '''Security Update''' - Platform work done, Orbit updated, reached out to Wayne and other affected projects.
* Dani: '''ICU4J v 51''' - In the past, we slightly tweaked ICU4J to keep it backward compatible for CDC (only 4 small changes)
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* Dani: '''RC2 Build''' - too many bugs assigned, Lars on Vacation, Dani will fill in
** Minimal discussion happened; no big technical issues, but one change is breaking (return type)
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* McQ: '''Too Many Platforms Built?''' - Who's really hurt by "too many builds" ?
** Breaking methods used nowhere in the SDK
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** Will meet with Mike & Foundation tomorrow, Alex is also interested (Dani to check).
** Resolution: Not going to patch ICU4J. Upstream responsible for their stuff. If in doubt, adopters can go back to the older ICU4J.
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* John: '''Website git conversion''' - Denis test conversion and check for size of repo (should move big stuff to download)
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'''November 7, 2012''' - McQ, Dani, Martin
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'''May 13, 2015''' - McQ, John, Alex, Martin
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* John, Dani - Mars Endgame looking good
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* Alex - {{bug|465874}} Lucene 5 looking good, almost done - Ready to commit as soon as CQs are in and Mars+1 is open
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* JDT for Java 9 - will need a wider discussion with EMO on make it easier to publish the work, e.g. in normal builds
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'''May 6, 2015''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John
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* Dani: '''Java 9 timing''' - slight delay
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* Dani: RC1 preps
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** 2-day test pass went fine - 2 severe issues found, will be addressed
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** Request to watch PMC mailing list for API exceptions and defect approvals
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* John: '''PC Discussion on Release Cycles'''
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** Multiple releases per year PLUS maintenance streams seems like overkill
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** Consider an approach like Orion that just moves constantly forward
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** Especially for the Platform, being rock solid is most important. Still to attract new contributors we need to allow more frequent "feature updates".
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*** A model where both "stable/maintenance" _and_ "features" are contributed to the train might be too much work/overhead.
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*** Consider a model like Ubuntu, ... with some release numbers being "stable/LTS base" and others being "in-between feature releases" ?
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*** Consider a model like LTS for maintenance fixes / aside mainstream just moving forward ?
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'''April 15, 2015''' - Dani, John, McQ, Alex, Martin
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* Dani: '''Java 1.7 Changes'''
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** Some bundles have been moved to a 1.7 BREE by new committers, even after API freeze
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** Rule has always been "we move up when there's a reason to move up". We won't move up without reason.
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*** Dani: Moving the BREE may even cause API changes, so should only be done when incrementing the minor version (5% risk)
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*** Alex: Such updates allow staying current and not get to "rewrite is needed" state (thus needed) but has to happen before M6 (API freeze)
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** Alex suggest not accepting additional changes, but not reverting either (to avoid churn)
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* Dani: '''Batik 1.6 update'''
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'''April 8, 2015''' - Dani, Martin, Alex, John, McQ
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* Dani: '''Batik''' - Platform is good, Train may need to update, perhaps updating one bundle only would suffice. John will follow up.
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* Alex: '''SWT for GTK 3 News'''
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** GTK port finally decoupled from X11 - it renders on Wayland now, can switch the renderer to a pure HTML one
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** This opens up opportunities (but depends on hosts that have GTK).
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'''April 1, 2015''' - McQ, Alex, Martin, Dani (Regrets: John travelling)
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* Alex: '''GTK 3.16''' seeing issues again - fixed some crashes, but scrolling is still entirely broken
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** SWT uses a number of things that GTK declares as "implementation detail"
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* PMC approval on piggyback CQ's (AC question forwarded by John)
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** Dani sent [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-pmc/msg02332.html our position] to John in order to update the AC
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'''March 18, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ, John
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* John: '''EclipseCon''' - Bigger this year due to LocationTech (750 attendees)
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** Mark Reinhold keynote and "after-session" on Java 9
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** Much interest in Orion JS tooling / editor, also on desktop
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** Public face of Eclipse Platform at the conference was much more diverse than in the past (Lars Vogel, Max Anderson, Google ...)
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* Dani: {{bug|458730}} '''Mars Plan Update'''
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* Dani: '''e4 project leadership''' approved by EMO
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* Dani: Szymon Brandys resigned as Platform/Resources co-lead. Need to +1 on the mailing list
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'''March 11, 2015 - no meeting (EclipseCon)'''
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'''March 4, 2015''' - Dani, McQ, Martin, John
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* Dani: '''e4 leadership''' - Dani will volunteer to co-lead
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* Dani: '''BREEs''' - documentation about how to pick the EE
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** Recommending the "earliest generally supported JRE that provides the capabilities you need"
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** Would like an URL on the page pointing to the most recent plan (talking to Wayne)
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* John: '''greatfix contest'''
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** Dani: Working well - some very small contributions but some also very large (eg Customize Perspective fixes)
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* John: '''EclipseCon''' - numbers looking good; join Planning Council Breakfast as delegate for Dani
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'''February 25, 2015''' - Dani, Martin McQ
 
* No topics
 
* No topics
  
 
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'''October 31, 2012''' - McQ, Andrew, John, Martin, Dani
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'''February 18, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin
* John: {{bug|393195}} '''Kepler Plan Updates''': Removed XP from Plan, Mac from 10.6 to 10.8 (Means Oracle Java)
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* Alex: '''Building Native Launchers'''
** How to position GTK3 ?
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** Current way of building is kinda unpredictable - even if getting some agreement on versions to use, results are kinda unpredictable
* John: '''Committer Group Granularity''' - Google doc listing #active committers per group
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** Pushing towards Hudson RHEL builders at least at the EF to get more transparency and automation - attempt to mimic the infrastructure at IBM
** Resolved to perform the following merges:
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** Looking at 3 primary architectures (at the EF) for Linux vs. secondary architectures (non-public builders potentially)
**# Platform resources + Platform team
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* Dani: Great initiative, but other (non-EF) builders must not be broken
**# Platform runtime + UI
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** EF doesn't allow any commercial tools (but currently, e.g. Windows launchers are built with MSVS)
**# All PDE components into one project
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* Alex is willing to spend time to get Linux builds running; but can't help with other architectures
* Martin: '''CVS readme.txt replacement''' - not yet implemented by Platform, create scripts if it's done
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** Martin: great approach - for Windows, using a cross-compiler on Linux might be interesting (after Linux native works)
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* Alex: This is just phase one - getting rid of the binaries in git repos might be phase 2 (since the checked-in binaries easily cause inconsistencies between Java and Native side)
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** Martin: Checked-in binaries help consumers and contributors who just want to make a Java change
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** Dani: Checked-in binaries are also used for comparing build results for expected vs accidental changes
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* Alex: '''{{bug|459399}} - Policy for recommended minimum execution environments for bundles'''
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** Dani: It works today
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*** To run Eclipse, Java 8 or Java 9 can be used (minimum BREE has no impact)
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*** To modify the source, a new JRE can be used but then the Execution Environment Descriptions need to be installed
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** Policy as discussed in the past: Each project can increase the BREE if there is a real need (such as generifying) and no upstream clients are broken
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*** But don't change the BREE without justification -- changing the BREE always has some effect, such as new warnings that would need to be addressed
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*** Suggested BREE for new bundles has already been changed by Lars
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* Alex: Even for bundles in "maintenance mode", old BREE causes issues for people who build from source (who have to change compilers etc)
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* No conclusion so far (Alex and Dani disagree)
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* Dani: '''e4 leadership'''
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** Mature bits being moved to Eclipse - e4 remaining as an incubator to keep alive for experiments with low entry barrier
  
 
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'''October 24, 2012''' - Dani, Andrew, Martin, McQ
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'''February 11, 2015''' - Dani, Alex
* Windows 8 and Eclipse : Seems to run fine so far - no requirements known so far for Metro
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* no topics
** Use of space in Metro "Modern UI" looks similar to what Orion does ... maybe some potential there
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** Supporting "Modern UI" with SWT would require complete API rework (not just a skin)
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** Classic desktop apps look less shiny than on Win7
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'''October 17, 2012''' - Canceled, not enough members available
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'''February 4, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin
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* Alex: With GTK-3.15.[345] , Eclipse is entirely unusable
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** Alex has some dirty workarounds to make it start, but still many issues like trees not painted, ...
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** Crash on startup identified to be GTK bug. Fix to be released in 3.15.6 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=edec64cda3d4518b4e87d5ea5d287d4570ba9933
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* Dani: Working on Solaris 64-bit
  
 
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'''October 10, 2012''' - McQ, John, Martin, Andrew, Dani
 
* {{bug|389175}} dual 3.x and 4.x stream releases - good discussion, good resolution by the Planning Council
 
* Can we do more frequent maintenance releases ? - PMC said no
 
* Orion Graduation Review - great video
 
* Dani: remove 'org.junit' version 3.8.2 from SDK - PMC says "yes"
 
  
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'''January 28, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, John
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* Dani: Switch Mac OS X 10.9 with 10.10 in Mars target environments
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** No objections
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* Alex: Looking for any Eclipse related activity @Fosdem
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'''January 21, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ
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* Alex: '''Process for allowing non-committers extended bugzilla privileges (for bug triage)?'''
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** Dani: Yes a process exists. Send bugzilla username to Dani.
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* Alex: '''New resource for helping with SWT'''
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* Dani: '''Platform/UI co-lead'''
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* Dani: Solaris: Java 8 will only support 64 bits on both Intel and SPARC --&gt; IBM SWT Team considering to invest in getting patches in for 64-bit Solaris
  
 
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'''October 3, 2012''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John
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'''January 14, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ, John
* Debugging issues with Java Heap
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* Dani: Update on Platform/UI Leadership: Daniel Rolka left IBM and for now has no time to contribute. He stepped down as co-lead and nominated Lars Vogel
* John: '''Commit Rights Granularity''' - avoid components at risk of being orphaned
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* Dani: Solaris x86 64-bit support - patches exist, but no machine available. No luck to get one from Oracle or via Eclipse Foundation. We will not support Solaris x86 64-bit unless someone makes a machine available
** JDT still good. John going to look over components.
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'''January 7, 2015''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ, John
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* Dani: '''Platform/UI Leadership'''
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* John: '''Git security issue''' - pick up a patch for Jgit in the packages before SR2? - Mostly an EPP
 
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'''September 26, 2012''' - McQ, Martin, John, Andrew
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* '''Members Meeting / 4.x Performance'''
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'''December 17, 2014''' - McQ, John, Dani
** Are there any things that prevent commercial adoption ? - 4.x is the path forward and here's where we invest. Beyond that, 3.x is still around.
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* Platform UI leadership to be discussed in the next PMC call
* Andrew: '''Papercuts Feedback''' - small problems that people run into ... will think about useful ways in which Community can contribute small things
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* no call on December 24 and December 31
  
 
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'''September 19, 2012''' - McQ, Martin, John, Andrew, Dani
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'''December 10, 2014''' - Alex, McQ, John, Dani, Martin
* Martin: Juno patch feature for {{bug|381407}} and {{bug|383890}} ?
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* Dani: {{bug|427768}} Mickael (Red Hat) - Nested Project support contribution to Common Navigator to better support Maven projects
** This got fixed by a re-spin of RC4
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* Dani: Red Hat also will wants to contribute making the Import easier {{bug|421930}}. First in the e4 incubator.
* McQ: '''4.x Performance''', and Platform committers
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** Just import from a folder, and contribute project configurators via extension point (e.g. detect POM files, Makefiles, ...)
** Team is working on issues... like [http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2012/09/17/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/ Jochen Krause's blog]
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** McQ: Many complexities ... different users may want very different things to happen
** LTS going to improve things
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*** McQ: Just point to a Git repo -- the Git repo has a little metadata file at the root which allows launching the apps that the repo had been intended for ... maybe just make the project tree(s) a little more self-describing
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*** Is there a growing list of repos which already have that? - John: In the Java world, pom.xml is getting that ...
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*** Alex: .doap getting this (at least for Apache and GNOME projects - specifies at least the languages used)
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* Web IDEs : McQ and others gone through a lot of analysis of Web IDE's
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** Cloud9 has a much larger set of starting points ; in terms of the underlying core structure, Orion (and also Jay) are more interesting
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** Orion has an extremely lightweight plug-in model: pieces coming from all over the world may look like all running on the server - nice infrastructure for building Community around it
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** Orion + Flux could be a rival for anything out there
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** Orion continues to push on the Core Coding experience - Orion Editor is on par or better than most desktop editors
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* Vision: See [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-vision/msg00065.html Minutes on the platform-vision mailing list] ... Delivery will depend on people actually participating
  
 
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'''September 12, 2012''' - Andrew, Dani, John, Martin
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'''December 3, 2014''' - Alex, Martin, Dani, John (McQ travelling)
* John: '''CBI Build''' - good progress with Thanh from EMO visiting Platform Team's offices this week
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* John: [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-vision/ Platform Vision] - How to turn that into actionable items, Wayne wants to present to the Board
** Focus on Juno Stream because LTS builds need to get done
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* John: '''Performance tests''' running again since a couple weeks, now the graphs are also back again :)
** Can produce an SDK but cannot produce many of the other artifacts (That's good enough for LTS which only needs a p2 repo)
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** See http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20141202-0800/performance.php
** Can claim readiness only when binary bits are the same (p2 comparator tool from Olivier - which does byte code level compare of class files, and binary comparison of other files)
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** Results are there but fingerprints currently missing
* John: '''4.x Performance''' - Several people on the team actively looking at issues, some problems identified, some not yet reproduced
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** Baseline is 4.4.0 at the moment (consider comparing against 3.x at some point)
** Some work started on re-enabling Performance tests
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** John: From experience, a single result isn't helpful, there's often weird anomalies from build to build ... need to look at trends over multiple builds, thus the graphs are really useful
** start running on virtual machines to see whether dedicated machines are needed or not
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** How to improve the process integrating people / resources / donations from companies (EMO pushes towards more contributions)
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*** Need more committers for longer term, not only short-term patch contributors
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* Andrew: '''FOSDEM''' Europe (Brussels) coming up - Ian Skerret going to reserve a room, asking for people to join, good conference, lots of cross-pollination
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'''September 5, 2012''' - Andrew, Dani, Martin
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'''November 26, 2014''' - Alex, Dani
* Martin: '''Windows 8''' testing ? - Filed {{bug|388560}} to get "Windows 8" added to bugzilla
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* No relevant topics / decisions
** Dani: Initial testing by SWT team didn't reveal anything; Dani in favor of getting W8 deployed on Hudson once it is out officially
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** Should consider adding to the Kepler plan; consider backports to Juno SR for issues found
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* Martin: '''3.8 vs 4.2''' - posting on [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg08123.html cross-project list]
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** Need to look at stack traces in detail eg {{bug|385272}}. Watch how that E-Mail thread evolves.
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* Dani: '''Go/No-Go''' decision process for RC's - to be discussed in the Arch call
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'''August 29, 2012:''' - John, Dani, Martin
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'''November 19, 2014''' - Alex, Martin, Dani  (''McQ and John had issues dialing in'')
* John: Bugzilla's new auto-duplicate-find ... Dani likes it but moved suggestions somewhere else with Greasemonkey to avoid interfering with typing
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* Dani: '''Jetty 9''' - Upgrade has been done, but new versions coming out ... will probably update from Jetty 9.2.3 to Jetty 9.2.5. Probably 9.3
* Tom Watson: Big changes coming in Equinox for Java modularity - thought about Kepler but will wait for another year in a branch
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** WTP interested in newer Jetty version ... need to agree on a common version across the Release Train.
** Java 8 also won't be in Kepler ... so will likely be kind of a Maintenance Release
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** Alex: New Jetty JSP compiler failing ... filed a bug, will want this fixed (Jetty working on it)
* Dani: [[Version Numbering]] document is a bit unclear about upreving from a n.n.2
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* Dani: '''{{bug|179924}} Request for ssh-agent''' - patch against Team from YMNK (JSch Committer)
** RESOLUTION: desire is clarifying the next is n.n.100
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** egit would contribute the agent, but would make more sense putting it in Platform (+1 from Martin, no objection from Alex)
* Dani: '''Delete files from CVS projects''' and add a README ?
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* Equinox Declarative Services implementation - ProSyst stopped providing fixes, not responsive any more
** Yes if it can be done in an automated way .. to avoid confusion about outdated sources
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** New specificiation (R6) from OSGi adding lot of features, cannot risk staying behind
*** eg README points to a Wiki page
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** Suggestion to remove the ProSyst stuff and replace it with the Apache Felix implementation (used by IBM / WebSphere and others)
*** John: Keep the .project in place such that jumping from version to version doesn't break a workspace
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** Martin: How mature / stable is the Felix code ? Can we influence it ?
*** Martin: Acceptance criterion that importing from scmurl in MANIFEST.MF still works (when choosing the tag ... choosing HEAD should bring up the README)
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*** Dani: Very mature. Have more influence on Felix than on the Prosyst stuff ... through the IBM committers and others.
* John: '''Plan Update upcoming'''
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*** Alex agrees. Using some parts of Felix already.
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* John (via Dani): '''Move e4 into Platform/UI''' - would like to start the review process next week.
  
 
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'''August 15, 2012:''' - John, Dani, Andrew
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'''November 5, 2014''' - McQ, Dani, Alex, Martin
* Do we support removal of bugzilla CLOSED state? Resolved: yes we do
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* Eclipse Foundation greatbugs initiative - call into PMC
* Discussion of long term release plans beyond Kepler
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* Dani: EclipseCon Europe Report - met lot of people, best attended EclipseCon Europe ever :)
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** IOT; IDE in the Web; are people moving away from Eclipse before the transition to Web can be completed ?
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* Alex: Discussion with Christian Campo on scaling up
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** Should better go into SWT ... but SWT has a reputation that it's hard getting a change in -- people prefer re-doing things their own than contributing :(
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** Alex thinks this problem doesn't exist any more ... but how to fight this misconception ?
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** John: Getting a change in may now be hard due to other reasons, eg lack of experienced committers
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** Alex: Consider voting in new committers more easily if somebody is interested ?
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* Alex: Difference between Eclipse and the Linux Foundation
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** Linux Foundation doesn't provide anything that anybody can use directly (just a source tarball) --&gt; all users become "contributors" of some sort
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** This leads to different expectations and has a number advantages (eg issues are reported to and worked on by member companies only)
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'''October 22, 2014''' - Alex, Dani, McQ, John
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* Platform plan update nearly done, will be released soon
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* Orion release review is ongoing, release will be next week
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* Brief discussion of new bug reporting tool and related bug [https://dev.eclipse.org/recommenders/committers/dashboard/#/dashboard/temp/e6leTB3gQy-zUZI-73KtRQ dashboard]
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* PMC called '''canceled''' next week due to EclipseCon Europe
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'''October 1, 2014''' - Alex, Dani, Martin, McQ
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* Dani - In touch with Oracle regarding Solaris x86
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* McQ - '''Platform UI''' tension between making Platform UI as stable as possible, versus new features
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** Community forming for new contributions - that's great! - But takes committer's time; committers reduced to "productize and fix" is problematic
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** how to get more contributions for bug fixes ?
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*** Alex: What about saying "This release we only accept bug fixes" ? Or for some milestone, eg after M4 only accept bug fixes ?
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*** Dani: Sounds great, but will the Community accept that ? - JDT BugBash did not work that well...
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*** Dani to prepare a draft message
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* Dani was in Bangalore - talked to Arun - good collaboration with Alex
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** Hard to get new SWT developers (Sami moving away on RH side)
 +
** Ideas to keep SWT relevant ... eg generate Browser based things
 +
*** GTK3 supports running in a browser now... (just one label for now, but an interesting approach)
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''August 8, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew
+
'''September 24, 2014''' - Alex, Dani, McQ, John, Martin
* Dani: News from Jeff
+
* John: '''SWT Binaries Repository''' has got too big
* McQ vacation from August 13 to August 31
+
** Will prune old versions out of the git repository (which is only used internally) - "Release" drops will still be available from release builds.
 +
** '''DECISION:''' OK to prune.
 +
* '''SWT master still has sources for old Platforms''' like carbon and motif - cluttering up the source code
 +
** '''DECISION:''' OK to remove references - source would remain in git for old branches, but not be visible in master any more.
 +
* Dani: '''p2 and Equinox''' - no sign-off for M2, leaders stepping down ?
 +
** consider moving p2 back into Equinox, and probably Equinox back into the Eclipse project ?
 +
** John: Equinox committers not really knowledgeable about p2 ... still, with less than 3 active committers a threshold is reached (can't hold elections any more)
 +
** Still there's a couple of people contributing, so there are knowledgeable folk around
 +
** Dani: If there's committers committing code, they should also be responsible for sign-off
 +
* Dani: '''Java 7 and Jetty 9'''
 +
** Been using Jetty 8 for a while, now, there is Community Pressure upgrading to Jetty 9 but that requires Java 7
 +
** Java 6 no longer getting public updates since February 2013
 +
** John:Adoptions needed in the Help System when moving to Jetty 9 ?
 +
*** Alex don't think so - been shipping Jetty 9 for over a year already; only required changing some dependencies.
 +
*** '''ACTION ITEM: Alex offered to check this'''
 +
* Alex: '''Drop all the Java 6 Platforms from the list of Reference Platforms?'''
 +
** '''DECISION:''' Yes this needs to be done. Trying to support Java 6 won't buy any benefit at this point.
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''July 25, 2012:'''
+
'''September 17, 2014''' - no meeting
* '''CBI Build'''
+
** For SR1, the build can produce what the Release Train needs ... but not all the extra validation
+
** Need to run both builds for now ... until the CBI team's bytecode verifier produces the same output
+
** CBI team continues to look at the list of diffs and improve their builder
+
** Platform team would be OK dropping the legacy build once the bytecode validator has no diffs
+
** Platform team can't commit more resources to CBI now (Paul Webster already heavily involved)
+
* '''Losing Commits on the Orion git repo'''
+
** Dozen commits or so
+
** Might be a defect in the Orion git tools, but the server side should prevent that !!!
+
** DenyNonFastForward should have protected ... need an extra layer of protection ?
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''June 27, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John
+
'''September 10, 2014''' - John, Martin, Alex, Dani
* Eclipse Demo Camps - none in Ottawa
+
* John: Mars having some build hickups due to removing Mac 32-bit builds
* Going to skip the arch calls for all of July - leave the PMC slot in place.
+
* John: Luna SR1 - almost done, respinning for 2 bugs in Equinox
* Should keep an eye on the Community feedback for Eclipse 4
+
* John: Cloud TLP (for Orion and others) - still on track for announcing end October
 +
* Alex: Been busy with other stuff recently, back on the GTK version support discussion this week
 +
** Martin: Many people will know what distro they have (or need), but not what GTK they have on there
 +
*** John: Also running GTK on AIX, Solaris, Linux Power and other which are not moving up that fast...
 +
*** Martin: Examples: RHEL 5.8 was GTK 2.10.4-21 ; RHEL 4.5 was at GTK 2.4.13-22
 +
*** Popular distros would be Ubuntu LTS, RHEL, OpenSUSE
 +
** Alex: Newer distros have up to 3 GTK versions installed, along with some means to switch between them, it's very confusing
 +
** Eclipse is the only project that dynamically loads DLL's and tries to support a broad range ... others typically compile against a specific version
 +
*** Most projects require GTK 2.24
 +
** John: GTK versions are not really predictable ... between 3.04 and 3.10 there was a breaking change
 +
** Alex: In every release there are small issues that we work around; and there's certain releases that are breaking stuff
 +
** '''NEXT ACTION: Send E-Mail'''
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''June 13, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John
+
'''September 3, 2014''' - John, Alex, Dani
 +
* Dani: away next week and on/off the next two weeks due to travel
 +
* Dani: RC4 next week. PMC please watch the PMC mailing list
 +
** John: will be available and monitor the mailing list
 +
* Dani: Oracle interested in providing access to a Solaris 64-bit machine {{bug|442266}}
 +
* John: How/where to graduate the e4 tools
 +
** the community wants to graduate this out of incubation
 +
** initially proposed to create a separate project, but feels like adding too much overhead
 +
** John: proposed PDE as home, then Dani suggested to use Platform UI
 +
** Alex, Dani and John agree to suggest Platform UI as home for the e4 tools.
 +
** John to send a note to Lars
 +
* Alex: Limit supported number of GTK+ versions
 +
** SWT currently has to support over 20 different version. This doesn't scale.
 +
** Proposal: Bump min supported version with one minor release each release. Aka Luna has Gtk 2.10 as min, Mars would have 2.12 as min. Can consider even two minor releases (Mars requires 2.14) as this would keep the amount of supported versions the same as GTK releases one minor release every 6 months.
 +
** Dani, John: this is too limiting. We tended to support the most possible. Newest versions might have too many bugs.
 +
** All agree: we'd like to limit the amount of supported versions
 +
** Alex to cast a poll via Eclipse Foundation, which versions are used by users and companies
  
* Discussed the ECF rebuild request ({{bug|382206}}). Arguments in favor: it is a safe change, it reverts the situation to where it was in RC3 and earlier. Arguments against summarized in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=382206#c20.
+
<hr/>
* We will need to tag the release but we can wait until we are officially done (week of June 25th).
+
 
 +
'''August 27, 2014''' - cancelled
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''June 6, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John, Andrew
 
  
* Discussion of how to handle test failures for final build. Most of the remaining failures are infrastructure issues related to our move to Hudson for tests. We will document the failures through bugs, and include a note on the build results page for the final build explaining the failures
+
'''August 20, 2014''' - John, Alex, Dani
* Discussion of whether we need a 3.9 release. Unanimous conclusion was that we do not see a need for it. Reducing to one stream will greatly reduce our development overhead and encourage consolidation around the single stream.
+
* Dani: new platform PowerPC 64-bit LE {{bug|441358 }}
* Discussion of how to handle the disappearance of org.eclipse.equinox.concurrent from our RC3 builds. This was never deliberately included in the platform, but was present due to a greedy optional dependency from ECF. By very close 3/2 decision PMC decided to leave it alone and document the disappearance in porting guide, readme file, release review material, and cross-project list.
+
** maintained by IBM
 +
** will be added to 4.4.1 as early access
 +
** Dani to send a note to cross-platform
 +
* Dani: individual made patches to support Solaris 64-bit {{bug|442266}}
 +
** we'd like to add it but don't have a machine to support it
 +
** important because our current 32-bit Solaris build will become obselete since there's no 32-bit JRE for Java 7 and beyond
 +
** Oracle should be interested since they provide both, Java and Solaris
 +
** Dani to ask Oracle
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
  
'''May 23, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin
+
'''August 13, 2014''' - McQ, Alex, Dani
* McQ: '''CBI / Tycho builder''': Paul Webster driving Platform efforts (AI Martin notify about {{bug|359719}})
+
* Dani: Any feedback for the [https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_5.xml Mars plan]?
* Martin: {{bug|380984}} ant / Orbit respin? - Unclear for now
+
** McQ:
* McQ: Finally figured out some long-standing bug eg "Variables view sometimes empty"
+
*** It does not cover Orion, but that is OK and like in previous release plans. Orion will most likely be moved to another top-level project soon.
** Dani: It's 2 issues: First-time switch to Perspective deferred to 4.2.1, but {{bug|379818}} is finally fixed
+
*** We want to remove Mac OS X Universal 32-bit (all agreed)
** The actual underlying defect had been in there for years
+
* Dani: How to deal with requests to push our bundles to repo.eclipse.org {{bug|441530}}
 +
** Dani: OK for me but we won't do the work
 +
** Alex: Maven needs the dependencies in the pom.xml. We don't want copy them from the manifest into the pom.xml and then maintain this. The pom should be updated when publishing the file into the Maven repo. Ideally by an automated task.
 +
** Conclusion: all agree with this, i.e. we won't do the actual work and we won't "pollute" our pom files.
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''May 16, 2012:''' - McQ, John, Dani, Martin
+
'''August 6, 2014''' - McQ, Dani
* Dani: '''Version Number''' in branding features gets auto-generated and 3.8 version is now higher than 4.2 (since 3.8 build runs after 3.8)
+
* Dani: Will provide initial Mars plan next week
** John thinks it's not a big deal
+
 
* John: '''CBI Patches''' - CBI has lots of patches downstream in their POM's ... RC2 is the last chance getting that in
+
** Auto-generating the POM.XML would be nice but that's not how things work today
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''May 9, 2012:''' - McQ, John, Dani
+
'''No meetings in July'''
* John: Classic update can still be enabled via capabilities - should we remove it?
+
 
** Dani: in general "yes", but too late now
+
** McQ: too late, but make sure we do it for Kepler
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''May 2, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew, John
+
'''Jun 4, 2014''' - Dani, John, Martin, McQ, Alex
* John: '''Forking of SWT''' 3.8 and 4.2 are now separate Streams with CTabFolder implementation being the only difference
+
* Dani: '''RC4 Status''' looking good
* Dani: '''Icons''' (not discussed)
+
** 1 bug in JDT, 1 bug in Debug and 1 in Platform/UI on Linux being investigated ("Show In" no longer working)
 +
** Rest of the team working on docs
 +
** Alex: On Ubuntu, might want to disable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY ... this is causing a lot of issues
 +
* John: '''Went over the N&N''' ... number of things went in after M7 :)
 +
** Dark Theme - Good story in place combining the old 3.x Presentation API with the new E4 (CSS) technology in a good way
 +
 
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''April 18, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew, John
+
'''Jun 11, 2014''' - Martin, McQ, Alex, John
* Martin: [[E4/Scripting]] initiative
+
* John: Eclipse Theming: When switching the OS Theme to dark, Eclipse should be aware
** McQ thinks the E4 Application Model should be exposed as a DOM to scripting .. anything other than utilizing the e4 DOM for hiding a view feels wrong
+
** Dark Theme is currently a tech preview
*** Martin: Approach is very pragmatic - don't see anybody investing into new Frameworks at this point but converging on what already exists
+
 
*** If this goes towards macro recording, the recorder should utilize the e4 app model
+
** Signing up on the [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-scripting-dev eclipse-scripting-dev] mailing list will keep people in the loop (expect low volume)
+
* Dani: '''API Approval Process''' Approval on Bug plus sent to eclipse-pmc list (like last year)
+
* John: '''PDE Committers''' - perception of not being open
+
** McQ would like to see a plan item for next year "actively promote more committers from outside"
+
* Martin: [[Asterisk]] - will need a dialin for Dani in Switzerland; '''AI Dani''' forward his dialin to Martin for the time being
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''April 11, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew, John
+
'''Jun 4, 2014''' - Dani, John, Martin, McQ, Alex
* Martin: '''LTS vs Quality/Fixes in Current Stream''' - Like John's reply making the link between the two
+
* Dani: '''RC4 Status''' looking good
* McQ/John: '''Builds''' - Moving forward
+
** 1 bug in JDT, 1 bug in Debug and 1 in Platform/UI on Linux being investigated ("Show In" no longer working)
* McQ: '''CBI Builds''' - Platform not going to take any ownership but will be a consumer like others - still shooting for Juno SR1
+
** Rest of the team working on docs
* Andrew: '''4.2 Builds in Fedora 17''' - Testing now
+
** Alex: On Ubuntu, might want to disable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY ... this is causing a lot of issues
* McQ: '''IBM Ottawa Team moving to new building''' - expect delays during next couple days
+
* John: '''Went over the N&N''' ... number of things went in after M7 :)
 +
** Dark Theme - Good story in place combining the old 3.x Presentation API with the new E4 (CSS) technology in a good way
 +
 
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''April 4, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew
+
'''May 28, 2014''' - Dani, Alex, Martin
* Dani: '''VM Requirements''' - Help no longer works on Java 5, this surprised some people... but Project Plan talks about a Java 6 req now
+
* Dani: '''EOL'ing the Delta Pack''' - announce now, remove during Mars - it's been obsoleted by p2 functionality
** Martin suggestion: on the "Required JVM" table in the Project Plan, add a 2nd column with closure of BREE including all pre-reqs (continue having 1st column the BREE of the bundle itself auto-generated)
+
** Alex: Some of the test suite relied on the delta pack, it caused issues, OK with removing (PDE tests would need to be cleaned up)
* Dani: '''Jeff still mentioned as PMC member'''
+
* Dani: '''Copyright Updates''' - tool is very slow since not ported from CVS properly, can run for hours
** '''AI Dani''' send E-Mail
+
** John: Worth doing periodically but probably won't matter legally since copyright lasts for 7 years
* Martin: '''Concern about Platform Quality''' - eg SWT Redraws on 3.7.x - Old-time committers moving away
+
** The change is not without risk (Dani: Could schedule after the release)
** McQ: Platform team's focus will continue being maintenance, and new Platform support ... team's capacity is going down, but SWT is not affected mosted
+
** McQ: Should consider updating the tool as part of that work
** Martin: Code contributions are easy, hi-quality triage and review are harder
+
** Alex: Has a new intern, could use this as an opportunity to join
** Martin: Re-think the idea of having committers paid by the Foundation and Member Companies paying their share
+
* Dani: '''RC3 status''' - last planned build - looking good, except for Platform UI, where the list of bugs is still long
*** Example: Why would Pascal review p2 in his sparetime ... but if he gets paid per bug his experience can be extremely valuable
+
* McQ: Discussions about a new Eclipse.org Web-based Toplevel Project
*** Be more creative on resourcing side
+
 
** McQ: In favor of putting more structure in place similar to LTS ("hire people for fixes") ... just continue with LTS ?
+
*** IBM will have a need for fixes for at least another 8 years .. but that's a very self-serving focus
+
** [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] '''AI Martin''' send E-Mail to Mike to keep the ball rolling
+
* Dani: {{bug|375292}} '''Reference to Marketplace in the SDK'''
+
** Martin: "Classic" is a Building Block but "Packages" are for end users
+
** McQ: The purity of the SDK in itself isn't relevant
+
*** Martin: Why not just create a new package "Classic" which is at +3 and pulls in egit + marketplace ... the process for building is all in place, may just need a package reviewer
+
*** [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] '''AI Martin''' mail Markus
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''March 21, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Andrew, Martin
+
'''May 14, 2014''' - Dani, Alex, John, Martin
* McQ '''Oracle Java on Mac'''
+
* Alex: SWT GTK3 and the Endgame Rules
* Dani '''denyNonFastForward'''
+
* Dani: Luna Plan Update
* McQ '''JDT Team might see some losses'''
+
* John: New Dashboard created by the EMO
* Andrew '''Running OpenJDK tests now on ARM''' :)
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''March 14, 2012:''' - McQ, Andrew, Dani, John
+
'''May 7, 2014''' - McQ, Dani, Alex, John, Martin
* Losing Eclipse project release engineer next week
+
* Martin {{bug|241957}} - GTK clipboard hang
* David Williams is stepping in to help with our builds until Juno
+
** Alex: GTK guys recommended using the async API, but no time for more investigation
* Most immediate issue is that our build needs elevated privileges to tag, sign, and promote builds
+
** McQ: Switching a sync API to async implementation underneath can be extremely messy (need to be aware of all possible events and event sources...)
** kmoir was the only committer with sufficient privileges
+
** McQ: If there is an idea canceling the clipboard wait ... given that the issue occurs only rarely, even a hacky solution is better than nothing
** We either need to give another committer sufficient rights, or give build user access it needs
+
* Dani: will do a plan update, hopefully this week
** Could use hooks to ensure build user isn't doing anything other than tagging
+
** All agreed the build user approach was the best option. John to open bug against foundation to carry it out
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''March 7, 2012:''' - McQ, Andrew, Martin, John
+
'''April 30, 2014''' - Dani, Martin, McQ
* John: '''API Deletions''' {{bug|370248}} - PMC agrees.
+
* McQ: '''WB4 perspective customization''' - has it caused any issues ?
* McQ: '''Common Build Infrastructure at the Foundation'''
+
** Martin: Dealing with detached views works differently (dragging a window fails - must drag the tab inside the window)
** Shipping Platform Juno bits built by PDE ... but Foundation wants EPP packages built by Tycho; Platform can't support this
+
** Dani: Saved perspectives / windows are lost on an existing workspace when moving from 3.x to 4.x
*** Reason might be that 4.2 is planned to be the start of LTS and VLTS .. ok for now if LTS bits are different since not publicly available
+
*** Martin/McQ: When crossing the major version boundary, it is OK to lose state - it's not nice but acceptable
*** Plus, LTS really starts after Juno SR2 ... Platform might be in a better position for Tycho by then
+
** Dani: The bigger problem is, that the whole "Perspective customization" dialog is still not working as expected
*** In Linux, Fedora also builds by themselves ... but assumption is that people come to Fedora support first
+
*** Martin: Agree with the concern, but the Perspective customization dialog wasn't ever great
** Martin, Andrew really concerned about fragmentation and duplication of effort ... eg what if the qualifiers don't match
+
*** McQ: If invest work here, rather make it good than bring back the previous status quo
** Should be treated as proof of concept but not publicly available until Juno SR2, in order to avoid fragmentation !
+
*** Martin: Most customization done via plugin.xml / Java , don't expect end users to do a lot of customization themselves
 +
* Dani: '''M7 status'''
 +
** Defect triage under control - some items deferred to 4.5
 +
 
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''February 29, 2012:''' - Dani, McQ, John, Martin, Andrew
+
'''April 23, 2014''' - McQ, Dani, John, Alex, Martin
* John: Orion team received a box full of '''Black Ducks''' to honour their Black Duck Rookie of the Year award
+
* Alex - GTK2 or GTK3 as default - GTK3 it is
* Dani: '''Gerrit Move'''
+
** GTK2 - more stable on old systems but no usable browser due to
** John: Important information needs to stay in Bugzilla ... don't pull from outside git exclusively
+
*** xulrunner - latest version not supported by swt and latest distros don't even ship standalone xulrunner
* Andrew: '''Platform Defect Contest'''
+
*** webkitgtk - gtk2 version in maintenance mode, upstream consider dropping, really crashy See [https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2014-March/001821.html]
** McQ concern: Lots of duplicate bugs would take focus away from the team
+
** GTK3 still has some drawing issues (fighting them one by one, but functionally everything is there)
** Martin: Could encourage triage as part of the contest, and only count good/new bugs
+
** McQ: If neither state is really good, need to choose the option that's moving forward (switch to GTK3)
** John: Some low-hanging fruit bugs in Platform UI but not necessarily in 4.x ("helpwanted")
+
* Dani - '''Freeze Plan created'''
** John: Re-introduce the "greatbug" keyword ?
+
* John - '''Hackathon in London proposed by Ian Skerret'''
*** A greatbug is relevant, new, good description that helps understanding/finding the issue; ideally with a patch.
+
*  
*** Resolution: '''AI John''' send note to Mike
+
* John: '''PDE API Moved'''
+
** Some internal, provisional API was migrated to full API in this release
+
** Someone from SAP (Dimitar Giormov) Asked adding back the provisional API such that they could support 2 versions of Eclipse with one codebase
+
** McQ: Would have helped them 4 years ago .. but at the moment don't have enough people
+
*** McQ: Question how pervasive their use of the old API is ... how much Reflection would they need to put int
+
*** One resolution could be OK but only if they provide all the patches
+
** This kind of duplication is error prone and adds a maintenance burden on the project
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''February 22, 2012:''' - Dani, McQ, John, Andrew
+
'''April 16, 2014''' - Dani, Alex
* Repeat of PDE build discussion from last week. We decided to nominate John Arthorne as a committer so we at least have someone to accept community patches. We will revisit after Juno and perhaps do a larger restructuring
+
* no topics today
* Communication with eGit: We have written some patches for eGit that have been growing stale. Dani will review the patches, and then send an email to eGit lead asking if there is a particular reason for not accepting them. If there is no problem with the patches we will track down an eGit committer to release them.
+
* Andrew asked about process for approving CQs:
+
** Any PMC member can feel free to approve CQs
+
** New versions of existing third party libraries are a no-brainer, typically just +1 right away
+
** For new third party libraries we may need a PMC discussion about why the library is needed, what feature it will live in, etc
+
** For code contributions just make sure the legal process has been followed and then +1. We generally trust the judgement of the committer who will process the contribution.
+
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''February 15, 2012:''' - Dani, McQ, John
+
'''April 9, 2014''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
* Some discussion of what to do with PDE Build, which lacks committers. PDE as a whole has barely enough committers to be a functioning project, so maybe we should be looking at a larger restructuring after
+
* Dani - '''Kepler SR2 and Java 8'''
Juno rather than one piece at a time. We lacked quorum to make a decision so we will defer discussion to another week.
+
** Planning Council: Can build and host the patches, but messaging must be clear as "SR2 with the patches applied". Still polishing words of the download pages.
 +
** Not added to aggregate repo ... one-time package without any updates
 +
** Feature patch available on Marketplace (for manual update) - for those starting from scratch they can now get "Kepler + Patch"
 +
** Not convinced that the extra downloads were necessary (early adopters already had the patch, new adopters can also get Luna) ... but current approach won't hurt.
  
 +
* John - '''Hard to review all incoming Platform/UI Contributions'''
 +
** Dani tried to jump in on some issues like Icons
 +
** Doubt that some of the work will really help bringing committers on board (such as the for loop conversion)
 +
** Some of the initial contributors of very simple things have now grown into contributing real interesting things
 +
** Getting more people involved in initial reviews (currently some 10 active committers, 4-5 fullday ones) - but mainly Eric and Paul review patches
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''February 8, 2012:''' - Dani, Martin, Andrew, McQ
+
 
* Andrew: Eclipse stand at '''FOSDEM in Brussles'''
+
'''April 2, 2014''' - Dani, Alex, John, Martin
** Lots of people just dropped by to say hi and thanks
+
* Dani - new GTK3+ issues
** Mike Milinkovich was showing off Orion; Gunnar and Andrew did others (Web, EclipseRT, C/C++)
+
** crash/hang when SWT AWT bridge is used, also affects JavaFX ({{bug|431330}})
* McQ: '''4.2 Quality''' ... current list of defects looks manageable to tick all off .. any messaging we want to do ?
+
** problems with main menu ({{bug|419830}})
 +
* Dani - '''Submitting the IP Log for the Java 8 Work'''
 +
** Currently not qualified as a "release", only submitting the IP log.
 +
* Dani - need to '''approve API changes for Java 8 in M7'''
 +
** No API changes, only additions
 +
** Used / tested by JDT Core / JDT UI
 +
** ObjectTeams (Stephan Herrmann) was involved
 +
** There were no objections i.e. changes were approved
 +
* John - '''SWT over JavaFX'''
 +
** EclipseCon: Steve Northover thought it was possible, just a lot of work
 +
** Decide after Luna whether hosting in SWT or doing as a separate project
 +
** Relationship to Tom Schindl's [http://www.eclipse.org/efxclipse/index.html e(fx)clipse project] ?
 +
*** e(fx)clipse is more about tooling, not so much about rendering ...
 +
*** Tom seems to have an alpha version, but not actively working on it
 +
*** Seem to need some additional API in SWT - patch sits in Gerrit with nobody putting any attention at the moment. Details in {{bug|426243}}
 +
*** Having this API in place would make the JavaFX port simpler
 +
**** It look good but Alex has no idea whether it's the best idea and how acceptable on all platforms
 +
**** John: May make sense in the next release, API can't be a near-term thing ... needs some backers who can invest significant time in it
 +
*** Doug Schaefer is also pushing for JavaFX
 +
 
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''February 1, 2012:''' - Dani, Martin, John
+
'''March 26, 2014''' - John, Dani, Martin, Alex
* Dani: '''No UA Committers any more''' - move UA under Platform UI such that at least somebody can apply patches
+
* John - '''EclipseCon Update'''
** AI John check with Wayne ... UA is a subcomponent now, may not even need a move review.
+
** Slightly smaller than in the past, but VERY of positive attitude, LOT of excitement around Java 8 ... Oracle turned on the servers during one of the morning sessions
* Dani: {{bug|343150}} git '''DenyNonFastForward'''
+
** IoT / M2M - lots of demos on Raspberry Pi, many new projects
** Orion could eventually add tooling to support easy workflows in spite of deny on the repo ... but not in this release
+
** Very good content around Orion and Javascript, but a small crowd
** Ping on the bug again and proceed
+
** Great opening keynote from Mike Milinkovich on the history and future of Eclipse - mentioned Flux
* John: Decide when to switch 4.2 builds from re-using 3.x binary bundles vs full 4.x builds
+
** See also Blog Posts from [http://cdtdoug.ca/ Doug Schaefer] and [http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/author/irbull/ Ian Bull] as well as [https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/news/top-5-ian-bull top 5 from Ian]
** Today, the 4.x testsuite just tests 4.x specific stuff; things like JDT tests just run against 3.8 today
+
* John - '''ARM port of GTK''' - any tracking items ?
** Today, cannot generate Javadocs in 4.x today sine it needs the full source
+
** Bug exists for Launchers on ARM64 ; several other items too
** Today, nightlies are running 3.x only (could change to running 4.x nightlies only)
+
** IBM PPC Little Endian port of SWT
** Today, 3.x builds run at IBM and 4.x builds run at Eclipse.org
+
** Test on less used architectures like Solaris? - similar to the Windows 8 case...
** Only few test failures left in the 4.x builds --&gt; ready to switch
+
** Donating RHEL subscriptions to the Foundation was not accepted - John: Bug is open for having Hudson slaves run on other architectures
** AI: '''Kim''' to send 4.x test results to the mailing list, consider switching right after M5
+
*** Example: {{bug|430698}}, {{bug|429237}}, {{bug|415757}}; {{bug|419855}} talks about running virtualbox images on a vserver
** '''Performance Tests:''' Not yet run on 4.x yet - should be able to run on Denis' vserver
+
*** Denis is investigating some way running Hudson / HIPP instances on other hardware ... GTK3, Windows etc tests need other hardware
*** IBM is going to lose the physical machines for performance tests in 2 weeks ! (Going to migrate to vserver too!)
+
*** Check for cost of hardware, companies to donate it, and people to maintain it (Security patches!)
*** Need a new baseline
+
**** Alex could imagine RH signing up for some maintenance ... test machines could be entirely outside Eclipse.org infrastructure, isolated as their own sandbox
** Andrew: at '''FOSSLC''' in Brussels this week, going to represent Eclipse with Mike Milinkovich, Gunnar Wagenknecht and others
+
**** Hudson needs access though, thus need to be careful about security
* '''Gerrit''': Platform won't jump in as an early adopter this time, wait for other projects first
+
* Alex - '''Java 8 vs Java 7''' currently can't build an Eclipse SDK when the build machine has only one of the JDK's
** Not all Platform Unittests can run on Hudson today (need at least some fingerprint tests to get value from Gerrit)
+
** In the past, it was possible to build with only Java 7 ... now, if I have Java 8 I cannot build (need Java 7 too)
 +
** ==> Update on March 27 by Dani: this is {{bug|390889}} and we'll try to fix it for M7.
  
 
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<hr/>
'''January 25, 2012:''' - McQ, John, Martin, Andrew, Dani
+
'''March 19, 2014''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ
* McQ: '''Note about 4.2 on Release Train'''
+
* McQ - '''Congrats on Java 8 Release''' to coincide with the Oracle release
* Andrew: '''Eclipse 4.2 for Fedora''' - Feature note written for Eclipse Juno led to some discussion at Eng.Steering Committee, but finally approved
+
* Dani - '''Windows 8 Support''' - any answer to John's E-Mail ?
* Dani: Team down by 1 but no impact (Dani is going to take over responsibilities)
+
** McQ struggles with calling it a supported platform when nobody tests it; all we need to make sure is that somebody uses it
* John: '''Build Failures in UA, Update, PDE, p2 yesterday''' after the move to Java 7... nobody watching these, need to find caretakers
+
** Send note to Wayne, the epp-dev list and cross-project
** UA tests often fail due to a link validity checker, these can be caused by anyone
+
** Make it clear that running on Win8 is a useful contribution ... and we WON't put Win8 on supported platforms list if we don't get that confirmation
** Certificate Validity issue (Jar signing)
+
  
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<hr/>
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'''March 12, 2014''' - Alex, Martin, McQ, John
 +
* GTK - SWT team discussions
 +
* John - '''preparing for Java 8 release'''
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''January 18, 2012:''' - McQ, John, Martin, Andrew, Dani
+
'''March 5, 2014''' - John, Dani, Martin, Alex
* McQ: '''4.2 quality''' and next steps
+
* Dani: '''How to Avoid Spam in Gerrit''' - Bug in Bugzilla PMC bucket - consider offline
** More resources found to enable 4.2 as the LTS base - encouraging, although some items still missing
+
* Dani: '''Windows 8 Support'''
** Fedora 17 think about shipping 4.2m6 (work ongoing) - that would be a large stack on top of 4.2
+
** Not listed in official plan
** John: '''Oracle Java 7 as Reference Platform''' now that the most severe issues are fixed (Java 6 EOL is June 2012 !) - that is Oracle, not OpenJDK
+
** No technical problem, but lack of resources - only 1 machine on the IBM team and that's a VM
*** Not remove Java 6 for now
+
** Add as supported Platform for Luna, or wait another year ?
*** Fedora also does all tests on 7
+
** Most active development is on Linux and Windows 7 these days... agree with Dani that only active developer use helps finding real issues
 +
** AI John: Send a note to eclipse-dev
 +
*** Reaching out to Community to find an active user would be sufficient ... WPF or Win32 ? WPF is only a runtime target environment as of today.
 +
* Dani: '''State of GTK 3+'''
 +
** Not yet fixed on Eclipse side, but GTK found a bug on their side that is going to be fixed; not yet sure though if that will fix everything
 +
** Launcher now has a fallback to GTK2 if it detects the partially supported GTK3 version
 +
** Good collaboration after an initial warm-up phase ... Eclipse SWT considered an important-enough client to make fixes for
 +
** Alex: Concerned about users with a GTK 3.8 distro that update to GTK 3.10 and get the fallback to GTK 2 activated which has crashes with autocomplete in the browser
 +
** On GTK 3.9 or newer, Launcher falls back to GTK 2 but that port is pretty much unmaintained, several other problems in there ... but not falling back is even worse
 +
** Should be fine once distros start picking up paint / clipping issue fix (the not-drawing fix is still pending on SWT side)
 +
* Alex: '''GTK 3 in Mars'''
 +
** Bump minimum required version to only use cairo and get rid of older calls - this causes confusion with GTK folk
 +
** RHEL 5 would no longer work
 +
** Thanks to SWT now requiring Java 1.5, can simplify the code wrt JNI
  
 
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<hr/>
'''January 11, 2012:''' - McQ, John, Dani, Martin, Andrew
+
'''February 26, 2014''' - Alex, John, Martin, McQ
* McQ: '''State of Presentation API's'''
+
* John: '''Orion Release''' this week
** Different API's in 4.2 and 3.x -- will need to deprecate API in 3.x
+
 
** Christian suggested deleting API that's not implemented in 4.x to get compile errors ... John thinks that binary compatibility is more important
+
* Alex: '''Eclipse on ARM64'''
*** Plugins will be "mostly OK", presentation API is cosmetic anyways
+
** Launcher and swt at first
** McQ: get in touch with clients who use presentation API, telling them what's best to do ... often newer 4.x infrastructure is much better than trying to keep 3.x around forever
+
** Had ports for other architectures in source form in the past, risk to get stale but helps getting the ball rolling
* Andrew: '''Cairo and GTK3'''
+
** John: Quite a lot steps to make a new Platform real - constants in OSGi, ... - but can happen piecemeal eg only do SWT first
* John: '''4.2 compiling now'''
+
*** Martin: Would make sense to document the required steps for adding a new Platform while doing the job
* Martin: '''Updated JSch-0.1.44 version''' - how to announce properly
+
*** At least, write up the TODO list - in order to make it easier the next time
** AI Martin Announce on eclipse-dev and cross-project
+
** Should ask Tom Watson about OSGi constants
** Should also put into migrtion notes and README
+
 
 +
* Dani: Update on '''GTK 3+ issue''' - bug filed against GTK, working on a workaround for fallback but not yet finished
 +
** Alex: Fix in GTK3 alone wouldn't work because SWT overrides GTK in that part
 +
** McQ: If SWT API can't be implemented on top of new GTK API any more, discussion needs to happen
 +
*** If SWT does something wrong, would need pointers to what they should be doing instead...
 +
*** Maybe a couple phone calls to talk through the technical details
 +
*** Don't fight over things ... figure out what's the right thing to do, and just do it
 +
 
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''January 4, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew
+
'''February 19, 2014''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, John
* McQ: Pascal's note about p2 leadership .. not sure who could step in and make a commitment (may see the same fate as UA)
+
* Dani: '''Silenio to work on GTK issue?'''
** Tom Watson looking for candidates, but looks like none in McQ's team
+
* John: '''GTK testing at the Eclipse Foundation'''
 +
* John: '''e4 ML discussion about graduating some tools'''
 +
** Model Editor, CSS Editor, CSS Spy, ...
 +
** Fairly late, but risk is rather low -- suggest putting into PDE
 +
** Dani concerns: No PDE committers available for handholding - and stuff is not polished; even Lars sees it in Luna+1
 +
** John: These tools would only be used by people building RCP apps
 +
** Martin: What is the goal of trying to graduate?
 +
*** If it's just about getting more exposure, perhaps keep in incubation and add to the RCP EPP Package ?
 +
** Alex would like adding new people / interested contributors to PDE
 +
 
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<hr/>
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'''February 5, 2014''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Alex
 +
* Dani: '''Confcall Numbers:''' Skype into the US tollfree; Alex use SIP
 +
* Martin: Eclipse 4 vs Eclipse 3.x - will file defects
 +
* Alex: Testing on modern Linux
 +
 
 +
<hr/>
 +
'''January 22, 2014''' - John, Dani, Alex, Martin
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* John, Alex: '''New GTK 3.10 breaking Eclipse on latest Fedora'''
 +
** Alex been looking at Browser
 +
** Some Views not showing up - Silenio just back yesterday
 +
** Dani: For 4.4m5 and 4.3.2, will document issues in the README
 +
*** Considered a fallback to "gtk2" support in the Launcher, but that was considered too risky
 +
*** Silenio might have a workaround ... OK if the new code can be added conditionally for GTK 3.10 only
 +
* Dani: '''M5 Status'''
 +
** Still many open bugs not triaged - component leads should triage earlier
 +
 
 +
<hr/>
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'''January 15, 2014''' - McQ, Andrew, Dani, Martin
 +
* Dani: Lakshmi (SWT Team) going on maternity leave - SWT still a decent team of 4
 +
* Andrew: PMC Participation - Suggestion
 +
 
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
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'''January 8, 2014''' - Dani, Martin, Andrew, John, McQ
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* Dani: '''API Freeze''' with M6 on March 7, but JDT cannot put Java 8 stuff in before (March 18) thus will have to ask for an exception
  
 
= Archive =
 
= Archive =
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* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2013 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2013]]
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* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2012 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2012]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2011 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2011]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2011 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2011]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2010 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2010]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2010 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2010]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2009 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2009]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2009 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2009]]

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Documents

Some documents written and/or used by the PMC:

Meeting Schedule

The Eclipse Project PMC has a weekly phone meeting every wednesday at 10.30am EST.

Meeting Minutes

July 1, 2015 -- no meeting


June 24, 2015 - McQ, Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Dani: Java 9 - <a href="http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-java%E2%84%A2-9-support-beta-mars">EAR Feature Patch</a> on the Marketplace NOW
    • No JARs any more - JRE is doing things internally using "jimage" format; updated search etc to create projects and work against them
    • If the Jimage filesystem provider isn't backported, one has to run the IDE on Java9 in order to code Java9
    • Modules are just a list of packages (and can refer to other modules) - no real JSR describing the plan yet - seems like just a replacement of "Profiles" (and JARs)

June 17, 2015 - Dani, John, Martin, Alex


June 10, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin

  • Dani: 4.5RC4 looking good, no more fixes planned
  • Dani: Working on Java 9 feature patch
  • Alex: PC discussing a change in the release train
    • Current common ground seems to be a request for more release points, and projects could decide whether they do features or maintenance
    • From Platform point of view, stability is key. Some key contributors not interested doing
    • Martin: How to also cater to contributors who want their contributions released soon ?
      • Martin Idea: With Tycho, building the Platform is easier so ask contributors build themselves
      • Or, open up a new "experimental" stream ?
      • Dani Idea: Market milestone builds differently, as "fully consumable" would serve the same purpose
  • Martin: Tested eclipse-installer (Oomph), looking really really good now

June 3, 2015 - Alex, Dani, Martin, McQ, John

  • Dani: Mars Endgame
  • Dani: Please vote for release review

May 20, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ

  • Dani: Security Update - Platform work done, Orbit updated, reached out to Wayne and other affected projects.
  • Dani: RC2 Build - too many bugs assigned, Lars on Vacation, Dani will fill in
  • McQ: Too Many Platforms Built? - Who's really hurt by "too many builds" ?
    • Will meet with Mike & Foundation tomorrow, Alex is also interested (Dani to check).

May 13, 2015 - McQ, John, Alex, Martin

  • John, Dani - Mars Endgame looking good
  • Alex - bug 465874 Lucene 5 looking good, almost done - Ready to commit as soon as CQs are in and Mars+1 is open
  • JDT for Java 9 - will need a wider discussion with EMO on make it easier to publish the work, e.g. in normal builds

May 6, 2015 - McQ, Dani, Martin, John

  • Dani: Java 9 timing - slight delay
  • Dani: RC1 preps
    • 2-day test pass went fine - 2 severe issues found, will be addressed
    • Request to watch PMC mailing list for API exceptions and defect approvals
  • John: PC Discussion on Release Cycles
    • Multiple releases per year PLUS maintenance streams seems like overkill
    • Consider an approach like Orion that just moves constantly forward
    • Especially for the Platform, being rock solid is most important. Still to attract new contributors we need to allow more frequent "feature updates".
      • A model where both "stable/maintenance" _and_ "features" are contributed to the train might be too much work/overhead.
      • Consider a model like Ubuntu, ... with some release numbers being "stable/LTS base" and others being "in-between feature releases" ?
      • Consider a model like LTS for maintenance fixes / aside mainstream just moving forward ?


April 15, 2015 - Dani, John, McQ, Alex, Martin

  • Dani: Java 1.7 Changes
    • Some bundles have been moved to a 1.7 BREE by new committers, even after API freeze
    • Rule has always been "we move up when there's a reason to move up". We won't move up without reason.
      • Dani: Moving the BREE may even cause API changes, so should only be done when incrementing the minor version (5% risk)
      • Alex: Such updates allow staying current and not get to "rewrite is needed" state (thus needed) but has to happen before M6 (API freeze)
    • Alex suggest not accepting additional changes, but not reverting either (to avoid churn)
  • Dani: Batik 1.6 update

April 8, 2015 - Dani, Martin, Alex, John, McQ

  • Dani: Batik - Platform is good, Train may need to update, perhaps updating one bundle only would suffice. John will follow up.
  • Alex: SWT for GTK 3 News
    • GTK port finally decoupled from X11 - it renders on Wayland now, can switch the renderer to a pure HTML one
    • This opens up opportunities (but depends on hosts that have GTK).



April 1, 2015 - McQ, Alex, Martin, Dani (Regrets: John travelling)

  • Alex: GTK 3.16 seeing issues again - fixed some crashes, but scrolling is still entirely broken
    • SWT uses a number of things that GTK declares as "implementation detail"
  • PMC approval on piggyback CQ's (AC question forwarded by John)

March 18, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ, John

  • John: EclipseCon - Bigger this year due to LocationTech (750 attendees)
    • Mark Reinhold keynote and "after-session" on Java 9
    • Much interest in Orion JS tooling / editor, also on desktop
    • Public face of Eclipse Platform at the conference was much more diverse than in the past (Lars Vogel, Max Anderson, Google ...)
  • Dani: bug 458730 Mars Plan Update
  • Dani: e4 project leadership approved by EMO
  • Dani: Szymon Brandys resigned as Platform/Resources co-lead. Need to +1 on the mailing list

March 11, 2015 - no meeting (EclipseCon)


March 4, 2015 - Dani, McQ, Martin, John

  • Dani: e4 leadership - Dani will volunteer to co-lead
  • Dani: BREEs - documentation about how to pick the EE
    • Recommending the "earliest generally supported JRE that provides the capabilities you need"
    • Would like an URL on the page pointing to the most recent plan (talking to Wayne)
  • John: greatfix contest
    • Dani: Working well - some very small contributions but some also very large (eg Customize Perspective fixes)
  • John: EclipseCon - numbers looking good; join Planning Council Breakfast as delegate for Dani

February 25, 2015 - Dani, Martin McQ

  • No topics

February 18, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin

  • Alex: Building Native Launchers
    • Current way of building is kinda unpredictable - even if getting some agreement on versions to use, results are kinda unpredictable
    • Pushing towards Hudson RHEL builders at least at the EF to get more transparency and automation - attempt to mimic the infrastructure at IBM
    • Looking at 3 primary architectures (at the EF) for Linux vs. secondary architectures (non-public builders potentially)
  • Dani: Great initiative, but other (non-EF) builders must not be broken
    • EF doesn't allow any commercial tools (but currently, e.g. Windows launchers are built with MSVS)
  • Alex is willing to spend time to get Linux builds running; but can't help with other architectures
    • Martin: great approach - for Windows, using a cross-compiler on Linux might be interesting (after Linux native works)
  • Alex: This is just phase one - getting rid of the binaries in git repos might be phase 2 (since the checked-in binaries easily cause inconsistencies between Java and Native side)
    • Martin: Checked-in binaries help consumers and contributors who just want to make a Java change
    • Dani: Checked-in binaries are also used for comparing build results for expected vs accidental changes
  • Alex: bug 459399 - Policy for recommended minimum execution environments for bundles
    • Dani: It works today
      • To run Eclipse, Java 8 or Java 9 can be used (minimum BREE has no impact)
      • To modify the source, a new JRE can be used but then the Execution Environment Descriptions need to be installed
    • Policy as discussed in the past: Each project can increase the BREE if there is a real need (such as generifying) and no upstream clients are broken
      • But don't change the BREE without justification -- changing the BREE always has some effect, such as new warnings that would need to be addressed
      • Suggested BREE for new bundles has already been changed by Lars
  • Alex: Even for bundles in "maintenance mode", old BREE causes issues for people who build from source (who have to change compilers etc)
  • No conclusion so far (Alex and Dani disagree)
  • Dani: e4 leadership
    • Mature bits being moved to Eclipse - e4 remaining as an incubator to keep alive for experiments with low entry barrier

February 11, 2015 - Dani, Alex

  • no topics

February 4, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin


January 28, 2015 - Dani, Alex, John

  • Dani: Switch Mac OS X 10.9 with 10.10 in Mars target environments
    • No objections
  • Alex: Looking for any Eclipse related activity @Fosdem

January 21, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ

  • Alex: Process for allowing non-committers extended bugzilla privileges (for bug triage)?
    • Dani: Yes a process exists. Send bugzilla username to Dani.
  • Alex: New resource for helping with SWT
  • Dani: Platform/UI co-lead
  • Dani: Solaris: Java 8 will only support 64 bits on both Intel and SPARC --> IBM SWT Team considering to invest in getting patches in for 64-bit Solaris

January 14, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ, John

  • Dani: Update on Platform/UI Leadership: Daniel Rolka left IBM and for now has no time to contribute. He stepped down as co-lead and nominated Lars Vogel
  • Dani: Solaris x86 64-bit support - patches exist, but no machine available. No luck to get one from Oracle or via Eclipse Foundation. We will not support Solaris x86 64-bit unless someone makes a machine available

January 7, 2015 - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ, John

  • Dani: Platform/UI Leadership
  • John: Git security issue - pick up a patch for Jgit in the packages before SR2? - Mostly an EPP

December 17, 2014 - McQ, John, Dani

  • Platform UI leadership to be discussed in the next PMC call
  • no call on December 24 and December 31

December 10, 2014 - Alex, McQ, John, Dani, Martin

  • Dani: bug 427768 Mickael (Red Hat) - Nested Project support contribution to Common Navigator to better support Maven projects
  • Dani: Red Hat also will wants to contribute making the Import easier bug 421930. First in the e4 incubator.
    • Just import from a folder, and contribute project configurators via extension point (e.g. detect POM files, Makefiles, ...)
    • McQ: Many complexities ... different users may want very different things to happen
      • McQ: Just point to a Git repo -- the Git repo has a little metadata file at the root which allows launching the apps that the repo had been intended for ... maybe just make the project tree(s) a little more self-describing
      • Is there a growing list of repos which already have that? - John: In the Java world, pom.xml is getting that ...
      • Alex: .doap getting this (at least for Apache and GNOME projects - specifies at least the languages used)
  • Web IDEs : McQ and others gone through a lot of analysis of Web IDE's
    • Cloud9 has a much larger set of starting points ; in terms of the underlying core structure, Orion (and also Jay) are more interesting
    • Orion has an extremely lightweight plug-in model: pieces coming from all over the world may look like all running on the server - nice infrastructure for building Community around it
    • Orion + Flux could be a rival for anything out there
    • Orion continues to push on the Core Coding experience - Orion Editor is on par or better than most desktop editors
  • Vision: See Minutes on the platform-vision mailing list ... Delivery will depend on people actually participating

December 3, 2014 - Alex, Martin, Dani, John (McQ travelling)

  • John: Platform Vision - How to turn that into actionable items, Wayne wants to present to the Board
  • John: Performance tests running again since a couple weeks, now the graphs are also back again :)

November 26, 2014 - Alex, Dani

  • No relevant topics / decisions

November 19, 2014 - Alex, Martin, Dani (McQ and John had issues dialing in)

  • Dani: Jetty 9 - Upgrade has been done, but new versions coming out ... will probably update from Jetty 9.2.3 to Jetty 9.2.5. Probably 9.3
    • WTP interested in newer Jetty version ... need to agree on a common version across the Release Train.
    • Alex: New Jetty JSP compiler failing ... filed a bug, will want this fixed (Jetty working on it)
  • Dani: bug 179924 Request for ssh-agent - patch against Team from YMNK (JSch Committer)
    • egit would contribute the agent, but would make more sense putting it in Platform (+1 from Martin, no objection from Alex)
  • Equinox Declarative Services implementation - ProSyst stopped providing fixes, not responsive any more
    • New specificiation (R6) from OSGi adding lot of features, cannot risk staying behind
    • Suggestion to remove the ProSyst stuff and replace it with the Apache Felix implementation (used by IBM / WebSphere and others)
    • Martin: How mature / stable is the Felix code ? Can we influence it ?
      • Dani: Very mature. Have more influence on Felix than on the Prosyst stuff ... through the IBM committers and others.
      • Alex agrees. Using some parts of Felix already.
  • John (via Dani): Move e4 into Platform/UI - would like to start the review process next week.

November 5, 2014 - McQ, Dani, Alex, Martin

  • Eclipse Foundation greatbugs initiative - call into PMC
  • Dani: EclipseCon Europe Report - met lot of people, best attended EclipseCon Europe ever :)
    • IOT; IDE in the Web; are people moving away from Eclipse before the transition to Web can be completed ?
  • Alex: Discussion with Christian Campo on scaling up
    • Should better go into SWT ... but SWT has a reputation that it's hard getting a change in -- people prefer re-doing things their own than contributing :(
    • Alex thinks this problem doesn't exist any more ... but how to fight this misconception ?
    • John: Getting a change in may now be hard due to other reasons, eg lack of experienced committers
    • Alex: Consider voting in new committers more easily if somebody is interested ?
  • Alex: Difference between Eclipse and the Linux Foundation
    • Linux Foundation doesn't provide anything that anybody can use directly (just a source tarball) --> all users become "contributors" of some sort
    • This leads to different expectations and has a number advantages (eg issues are reported to and worked on by member companies only)

October 22, 2014 - Alex, Dani, McQ, John

  • Platform plan update nearly done, will be released soon
  • Orion release review is ongoing, release will be next week
  • Brief discussion of new bug reporting tool and related bug dashboard
  • PMC called canceled next week due to EclipseCon Europe

October 1, 2014 - Alex, Dani, Martin, McQ

  • Dani - In touch with Oracle regarding Solaris x86
  • McQ - Platform UI tension between making Platform UI as stable as possible, versus new features
    • Community forming for new contributions - that's great! - But takes committer's time; committers reduced to "productize and fix" is problematic
    • how to get more contributions for bug fixes ?
      • Alex: What about saying "This release we only accept bug fixes" ? Or for some milestone, eg after M4 only accept bug fixes ?
      • Dani: Sounds great, but will the Community accept that ? - JDT BugBash did not work that well...
      • Dani to prepare a draft message
  • Dani was in Bangalore - talked to Arun - good collaboration with Alex
    • Hard to get new SWT developers (Sami moving away on RH side)
    • Ideas to keep SWT relevant ... eg generate Browser based things
      • GTK3 supports running in a browser now... (just one label for now, but an interesting approach)

September 24, 2014 - Alex, Dani, McQ, John, Martin

  • John: SWT Binaries Repository has got too big
    • Will prune old versions out of the git repository (which is only used internally) - "Release" drops will still be available from release builds.
    • DECISION: OK to prune.
  • SWT master still has sources for old Platforms like carbon and motif - cluttering up the source code
    • DECISION: OK to remove references - source would remain in git for old branches, but not be visible in master any more.
  • Dani: p2 and Equinox - no sign-off for M2, leaders stepping down ?
    • consider moving p2 back into Equinox, and probably Equinox back into the Eclipse project ?
    • John: Equinox committers not really knowledgeable about p2 ... still, with less than 3 active committers a threshold is reached (can't hold elections any more)
    • Still there's a couple of people contributing, so there are knowledgeable folk around
    • Dani: If there's committers committing code, they should also be responsible for sign-off
  • Dani: Java 7 and Jetty 9
    • Been using Jetty 8 for a while, now, there is Community Pressure upgrading to Jetty 9 but that requires Java 7
    • Java 6 no longer getting public updates since February 2013
    • John:Adoptions needed in the Help System when moving to Jetty 9 ?
      • Alex don't think so - been shipping Jetty 9 for over a year already; only required changing some dependencies.
      • ACTION ITEM: Alex offered to check this
  • Alex: Drop all the Java 6 Platforms from the list of Reference Platforms?
    • DECISION: Yes this needs to be done. Trying to support Java 6 won't buy any benefit at this point.

September 17, 2014 - no meeting


September 10, 2014 - John, Martin, Alex, Dani

  • John: Mars having some build hickups due to removing Mac 32-bit builds
  • John: Luna SR1 - almost done, respinning for 2 bugs in Equinox
  • John: Cloud TLP (for Orion and others) - still on track for announcing end October
  • Alex: Been busy with other stuff recently, back on the GTK version support discussion this week
    • Martin: Many people will know what distro they have (or need), but not what GTK they have on there
      • John: Also running GTK on AIX, Solaris, Linux Power and other which are not moving up that fast...
      • Martin: Examples: RHEL 5.8 was GTK 2.10.4-21 ; RHEL 4.5 was at GTK 2.4.13-22
      • Popular distros would be Ubuntu LTS, RHEL, OpenSUSE
    • Alex: Newer distros have up to 3 GTK versions installed, along with some means to switch between them, it's very confusing
    • Eclipse is the only project that dynamically loads DLL's and tries to support a broad range ... others typically compile against a specific version
      • Most projects require GTK 2.24
    • John: GTK versions are not really predictable ... between 3.04 and 3.10 there was a breaking change
    • Alex: In every release there are small issues that we work around; and there's certain releases that are breaking stuff
    • NEXT ACTION: Send E-Mail

September 3, 2014 - John, Alex, Dani

  • Dani: away next week and on/off the next two weeks due to travel
  • Dani: RC4 next week. PMC please watch the PMC mailing list
    • John: will be available and monitor the mailing list
  • Dani: Oracle interested in providing access to a Solaris 64-bit machine bug 442266
  • John: How/where to graduate the e4 tools
    • the community wants to graduate this out of incubation
    • initially proposed to create a separate project, but feels like adding too much overhead
    • John: proposed PDE as home, then Dani suggested to use Platform UI
    • Alex, Dani and John agree to suggest Platform UI as home for the e4 tools.
    • John to send a note to Lars
  • Alex: Limit supported number of GTK+ versions
    • SWT currently has to support over 20 different version. This doesn't scale.
    • Proposal: Bump min supported version with one minor release each release. Aka Luna has Gtk 2.10 as min, Mars would have 2.12 as min. Can consider even two minor releases (Mars requires 2.14) as this would keep the amount of supported versions the same as GTK releases one minor release every 6 months.
    • Dani, John: this is too limiting. We tended to support the most possible. Newest versions might have too many bugs.
    • All agree: we'd like to limit the amount of supported versions
    • Alex to cast a poll via Eclipse Foundation, which versions are used by users and companies

August 27, 2014 - cancelled


August 20, 2014 - John, Alex, Dani

  • Dani: new platform PowerPC 64-bit LE bug 441358
    • maintained by IBM
    • will be added to 4.4.1 as early access
    • Dani to send a note to cross-platform
  • Dani: individual made patches to support Solaris 64-bit bug 442266
    • we'd like to add it but don't have a machine to support it
    • important because our current 32-bit Solaris build will become obselete since there's no 32-bit JRE for Java 7 and beyond
    • Oracle should be interested since they provide both, Java and Solaris
    • Dani to ask Oracle

August 13, 2014 - McQ, Alex, Dani

  • Dani: Any feedback for the Mars plan?
    • McQ:
      • It does not cover Orion, but that is OK and like in previous release plans. Orion will most likely be moved to another top-level project soon.
      • We want to remove Mac OS X Universal 32-bit (all agreed)
  • Dani: How to deal with requests to push our bundles to repo.eclipse.org bug 441530
    • Dani: OK for me but we won't do the work
    • Alex: Maven needs the dependencies in the pom.xml. We don't want copy them from the manifest into the pom.xml and then maintain this. The pom should be updated when publishing the file into the Maven repo. Ideally by an automated task.
    • Conclusion: all agree with this, i.e. we won't do the actual work and we won't "pollute" our pom files.

August 6, 2014 - McQ, Dani

  • Dani: Will provide initial Mars plan next week



No meetings in July



Jun 4, 2014 - Dani, John, Martin, McQ, Alex

  • Dani: RC4 Status looking good
    • 1 bug in JDT, 1 bug in Debug and 1 in Platform/UI on Linux being investigated ("Show In" no longer working)
    • Rest of the team working on docs
    • Alex: On Ubuntu, might want to disable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY ... this is causing a lot of issues
  • John: Went over the N&N ... number of things went in after M7 :)
    • Dark Theme - Good story in place combining the old 3.x Presentation API with the new E4 (CSS) technology in a good way



Jun 11, 2014 - Martin, McQ, Alex, John

  • John: Eclipse Theming: When switching the OS Theme to dark, Eclipse should be aware
    • Dark Theme is currently a tech preview



Jun 4, 2014 - Dani, John, Martin, McQ, Alex

  • Dani: RC4 Status looking good
    • 1 bug in JDT, 1 bug in Debug and 1 in Platform/UI on Linux being investigated ("Show In" no longer working)
    • Rest of the team working on docs
    • Alex: On Ubuntu, might want to disable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY ... this is causing a lot of issues
  • John: Went over the N&N ... number of things went in after M7 :)
    • Dark Theme - Good story in place combining the old 3.x Presentation API with the new E4 (CSS) technology in a good way



May 28, 2014 - Dani, Alex, Martin

  • Dani: EOL'ing the Delta Pack - announce now, remove during Mars - it's been obsoleted by p2 functionality
    • Alex: Some of the test suite relied on the delta pack, it caused issues, OK with removing (PDE tests would need to be cleaned up)
  • Dani: Copyright Updates - tool is very slow since not ported from CVS properly, can run for hours
    • John: Worth doing periodically but probably won't matter legally since copyright lasts for 7 years
    • The change is not without risk (Dani: Could schedule after the release)
    • McQ: Should consider updating the tool as part of that work
    • Alex: Has a new intern, could use this as an opportunity to join
  • Dani: RC3 status - last planned build - looking good, except for Platform UI, where the list of bugs is still long
  • McQ: Discussions about a new Eclipse.org Web-based Toplevel Project



May 14, 2014 - Dani, Alex, John, Martin

  • Alex: SWT GTK3 and the Endgame Rules
  • Dani: Luna Plan Update
  • John: New Dashboard created by the EMO

May 7, 2014 - McQ, Dani, Alex, John, Martin

  • Martin bug 241957 - GTK clipboard hang
    • Alex: GTK guys recommended using the async API, but no time for more investigation
    • McQ: Switching a sync API to async implementation underneath can be extremely messy (need to be aware of all possible events and event sources...)
    • McQ: If there is an idea canceling the clipboard wait ... given that the issue occurs only rarely, even a hacky solution is better than nothing
  • Dani: will do a plan update, hopefully this week

April 30, 2014 - Dani, Martin, McQ

  • McQ: WB4 perspective customization - has it caused any issues ?
    • Martin: Dealing with detached views works differently (dragging a window fails - must drag the tab inside the window)
    • Dani: Saved perspectives / windows are lost on an existing workspace when moving from 3.x to 4.x
      • Martin/McQ: When crossing the major version boundary, it is OK to lose state - it's not nice but acceptable
    • Dani: The bigger problem is, that the whole "Perspective customization" dialog is still not working as expected
      • Martin: Agree with the concern, but the Perspective customization dialog wasn't ever great
      • McQ: If invest work here, rather make it good than bring back the previous status quo
      • Martin: Most customization done via plugin.xml / Java , don't expect end users to do a lot of customization themselves
  • Dani: M7 status
    • Defect triage under control - some items deferred to 4.5



April 23, 2014 - McQ, Dani, John, Alex, Martin

  • Alex - GTK2 or GTK3 as default - GTK3 it is
    • GTK2 - more stable on old systems but no usable browser due to
      • xulrunner - latest version not supported by swt and latest distros don't even ship standalone xulrunner
      • webkitgtk - gtk2 version in maintenance mode, upstream consider dropping, really crashy See [1]
    • GTK3 still has some drawing issues (fighting them one by one, but functionally everything is there)
    • McQ: If neither state is really good, need to choose the option that's moving forward (switch to GTK3)
  • Dani - Freeze Plan created
  • John - Hackathon in London proposed by Ian Skerret

April 16, 2014 - Dani, Alex

  • no topics today

April 9, 2014 - Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Dani - Kepler SR2 and Java 8
    • Planning Council: Can build and host the patches, but messaging must be clear as "SR2 with the patches applied". Still polishing words of the download pages.
    • Not added to aggregate repo ... one-time package without any updates
    • Feature patch available on Marketplace (for manual update) - for those starting from scratch they can now get "Kepler + Patch"
    • Not convinced that the extra downloads were necessary (early adopters already had the patch, new adopters can also get Luna) ... but current approach won't hurt.
  • John - Hard to review all incoming Platform/UI Contributions
    • Dani tried to jump in on some issues like Icons
    • Doubt that some of the work will really help bringing committers on board (such as the for loop conversion)
    • Some of the initial contributors of very simple things have now grown into contributing real interesting things
    • Getting more people involved in initial reviews (currently some 10 active committers, 4-5 fullday ones) - but mainly Eric and Paul review patches

April 2, 2014 - Dani, Alex, John, Martin

  • Dani - new GTK3+ issues
    • crash/hang when SWT AWT bridge is used, also affects JavaFX (bug 431330)
    • problems with main menu (bug 419830)
  • Dani - Submitting the IP Log for the Java 8 Work
    • Currently not qualified as a "release", only submitting the IP log.
  • Dani - need to approve API changes for Java 8 in M7
    • No API changes, only additions
    • Used / tested by JDT Core / JDT UI
    • ObjectTeams (Stephan Herrmann) was involved
    • There were no objections i.e. changes were approved
  • John - SWT over JavaFX
    • EclipseCon: Steve Northover thought it was possible, just a lot of work
    • Decide after Luna whether hosting in SWT or doing as a separate project
    • Relationship to Tom Schindl's e(fx)clipse project ?
      • e(fx)clipse is more about tooling, not so much about rendering ...
      • Tom seems to have an alpha version, but not actively working on it
      • Seem to need some additional API in SWT - patch sits in Gerrit with nobody putting any attention at the moment. Details in bug 426243
      • Having this API in place would make the JavaFX port simpler
        • It look good but Alex has no idea whether it's the best idea and how acceptable on all platforms
        • John: May make sense in the next release, API can't be a near-term thing ... needs some backers who can invest significant time in it
      • Doug Schaefer is also pushing for JavaFX



March 26, 2014 - John, Dani, Martin, Alex

  • John - EclipseCon Update
    • Slightly smaller than in the past, but VERY of positive attitude, LOT of excitement around Java 8 ... Oracle turned on the servers during one of the morning sessions
    • IoT / M2M - lots of demos on Raspberry Pi, many new projects
    • Very good content around Orion and Javascript, but a small crowd
    • Great opening keynote from Mike Milinkovich on the history and future of Eclipse - mentioned Flux
    • See also Blog Posts from Doug Schaefer and Ian Bull as well as top 5 from Ian
  • John - ARM port of GTK - any tracking items ?
    • Bug exists for Launchers on ARM64 ; several other items too
    • IBM PPC Little Endian port of SWT
    • Test on less used architectures like Solaris? - similar to the Windows 8 case...
    • Donating RHEL subscriptions to the Foundation was not accepted - John: Bug is open for having Hudson slaves run on other architectures
      • Example: bug 430698, bug 429237, bug 415757; bug 419855 talks about running virtualbox images on a vserver
      • Denis is investigating some way running Hudson / HIPP instances on other hardware ... GTK3, Windows etc tests need other hardware
      • Check for cost of hardware, companies to donate it, and people to maintain it (Security patches!)
        • Alex could imagine RH signing up for some maintenance ... test machines could be entirely outside Eclipse.org infrastructure, isolated as their own sandbox
        • Hudson needs access though, thus need to be careful about security
  • Alex - Java 8 vs Java 7 currently can't build an Eclipse SDK when the build machine has only one of the JDK's
    • In the past, it was possible to build with only Java 7 ... now, if I have Java 8 I cannot build (need Java 7 too)
    • ==> Update on March 27 by Dani: this is bug 390889 and we'll try to fix it for M7.

March 19, 2014 - Dani, Alex, Martin, McQ

  • McQ - Congrats on Java 8 Release to coincide with the Oracle release
  • Dani - Windows 8 Support - any answer to John's E-Mail ?
    • McQ struggles with calling it a supported platform when nobody tests it; all we need to make sure is that somebody uses it
    • Send note to Wayne, the epp-dev list and cross-project
    • Make it clear that running on Win8 is a useful contribution ... and we WON't put Win8 on supported platforms list if we don't get that confirmation

March 12, 2014 - Alex, Martin, McQ, John

  • GTK - SWT team discussions
  • John - preparing for Java 8 release

March 5, 2014 - John, Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Dani: How to Avoid Spam in Gerrit - Bug in Bugzilla PMC bucket - consider offline
  • Dani: Windows 8 Support
    • Not listed in official plan
    • No technical problem, but lack of resources - only 1 machine on the IBM team and that's a VM
    • Add as supported Platform for Luna, or wait another year ?
    • Most active development is on Linux and Windows 7 these days... agree with Dani that only active developer use helps finding real issues
    • AI John: Send a note to eclipse-dev
      • Reaching out to Community to find an active user would be sufficient ... WPF or Win32 ? WPF is only a runtime target environment as of today.
  • Dani: State of GTK 3+
    • Not yet fixed on Eclipse side, but GTK found a bug on their side that is going to be fixed; not yet sure though if that will fix everything
    • Launcher now has a fallback to GTK2 if it detects the partially supported GTK3 version
    • Good collaboration after an initial warm-up phase ... Eclipse SWT considered an important-enough client to make fixes for
    • Alex: Concerned about users with a GTK 3.8 distro that update to GTK 3.10 and get the fallback to GTK 2 activated which has crashes with autocomplete in the browser
    • On GTK 3.9 or newer, Launcher falls back to GTK 2 but that port is pretty much unmaintained, several other problems in there ... but not falling back is even worse
    • Should be fine once distros start picking up paint / clipping issue fix (the not-drawing fix is still pending on SWT side)
  • Alex: GTK 3 in Mars
    • Bump minimum required version to only use cairo and get rid of older calls - this causes confusion with GTK folk
    • RHEL 5 would no longer work
    • Thanks to SWT now requiring Java 1.5, can simplify the code wrt JNI

February 26, 2014 - Alex, John, Martin, McQ

  • John: Orion Release this week
  • Alex: Eclipse on ARM64
    • Launcher and swt at first
    • Had ports for other architectures in source form in the past, risk to get stale but helps getting the ball rolling
    • John: Quite a lot steps to make a new Platform real - constants in OSGi, ... - but can happen piecemeal eg only do SWT first
      • Martin: Would make sense to document the required steps for adding a new Platform while doing the job
      • At least, write up the TODO list - in order to make it easier the next time
    • Should ask Tom Watson about OSGi constants
  • Dani: Update on GTK 3+ issue - bug filed against GTK, working on a workaround for fallback but not yet finished
    • Alex: Fix in GTK3 alone wouldn't work because SWT overrides GTK in that part
    • McQ: If SWT API can't be implemented on top of new GTK API any more, discussion needs to happen
      • If SWT does something wrong, would need pointers to what they should be doing instead...
      • Maybe a couple phone calls to talk through the technical details
      • Don't fight over things ... figure out what's the right thing to do, and just do it



February 19, 2014 - Dani, Alex, Martin, John

  • Dani: Silenio to work on GTK issue?
  • John: GTK testing at the Eclipse Foundation
  • John: e4 ML discussion about graduating some tools
    • Model Editor, CSS Editor, CSS Spy, ...
    • Fairly late, but risk is rather low -- suggest putting into PDE
    • Dani concerns: No PDE committers available for handholding - and stuff is not polished; even Lars sees it in Luna+1
    • John: These tools would only be used by people building RCP apps
    • Martin: What is the goal of trying to graduate?
      • If it's just about getting more exposure, perhaps keep in incubation and add to the RCP EPP Package ?
    • Alex would like adding new people / interested contributors to PDE

February 5, 2014 - McQ, Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Dani: Confcall Numbers: Skype into the US tollfree; Alex use SIP
  • Martin: Eclipse 4 vs Eclipse 3.x - will file defects
  • Alex: Testing on modern Linux

January 22, 2014 - John, Dani, Alex, Martin

  • John, Alex: New GTK 3.10 breaking Eclipse on latest Fedora
    • Alex been looking at Browser
    • Some Views not showing up - Silenio just back yesterday
    • Dani: For 4.4m5 and 4.3.2, will document issues in the README
      • Considered a fallback to "gtk2" support in the Launcher, but that was considered too risky
      • Silenio might have a workaround ... OK if the new code can be added conditionally for GTK 3.10 only
  • Dani: M5 Status
    • Still many open bugs not triaged - component leads should triage earlier

January 15, 2014 - McQ, Andrew, Dani, Martin

  • Dani: Lakshmi (SWT Team) going on maternity leave - SWT still a decent team of 4
  • Andrew: PMC Participation - Suggestion

January 8, 2014 - Dani, Martin, Andrew, John, McQ

  • Dani: API Freeze with M6 on March 7, but JDT cannot put Java 8 stuff in before (March 18) thus will have to ask for an exception

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