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= Documents =
 
= Documents =
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= Meeting Schedule =
 
= Meeting Schedule =
  
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The [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/team-leaders.php Eclipse Project PMC] has a weekly phone meeting '''every wednesday at 10.30am EST'''.
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The [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/team-leaders.php Eclipse Project PMC] has a weekly phone meeting '''every Tuesday at 11.00am EST'''.
  
 
= Meeting Minutes =
 
= Meeting Minutes =
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'''August 29, 2012:''' - John, Dani, Martin
 
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* 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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* 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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** Java 8 also won't be in Kepler ... so will likely be kind of a Maintenance Release
 
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* Dani: [[Version Numbering]] document is a bit unclear about upreving from a n.n.2
 
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** RESOLUTION: desire is clarifying the next is n.n.100
 
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* Dani: '''Delete files from CVS projects''' and add a README ?
 
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** Yes if it can be done in an automated way .. to avoid confusion about outdated sources
 
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*** eg README points to a Wiki page
 
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*** John: Keep the .project in place such that jumping from version to version doesn't break a workspace
 
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*** 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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* John: '''Plan Update upcoming'''
 
  
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'''Mar 21, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
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'''August 15, 2012:''' - John, Dani, Andrew
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* Dani: '''Dirk Fauth''' [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-pmc/msg02891.html Requests on eclipse-pmc]
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* Do we support removal of bugzilla CLOSED state? Resolved: yes we do
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** Alex agrees with Dani
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* Discussion of long term release plans beyond Kepler
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** Where does the "0.x version before graduation" requirement come from? - Development Process, but maybe didn't apply to plugin versions
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** Dani thinks that forcing a 0.x version causes forced breakage once something goes API thus doesn't make much sense
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* Dani: '''Szymon Ptasiewicz'''
  
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'''Mar 14, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
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'''August 8, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew
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* Dani: '''Java 9 readiness''' - see [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev cross-project-issues-dev]
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* Dani: News from Jeff
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** Step 1: For testing, just download a Java 9 beta JVM, add the module -- all testing is possible from commandline
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* McQ vacation from August 13 to August 31
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*** Platform team has an install, but Mike was concerned about legal issues - a bug is open to allow all simrel access
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** Step 2: Running the JDeps tools as per the [[Java 9 Readiness]] wiki can show violations
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*** Can even run with Java 8, Dani ran it on simrel, it's looking mostly good, only Orbit shows violations
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*** Platform team has some scripts; for Hudson there's even a Mojo, but it aborts when it finds a violation.
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** Step 3: Reflection - Will only figure out when knowing the code or testing
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** All these 3 tests can be done without the Java 9 patch in PDE. Only for debugging, one needs to self-host.
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*** This can be done either with Ed's Oomph support, or via the Marketplace
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** Platform team is still negotiating options for better support with Oracle
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* Dani: '''JUnit 5''' considers cutting down features for aligning with Oxygen
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** Decision to align, contributing support to Oxygen Update 1 in September
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* Dani: '''2 Platform Issues in M6'''
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** platform.ui reexports everything including jface - lower bundles not updated - JDT may fail if installed (fixed for M7)
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** major version uprev: interface not marked as @noimplement; reverting the version, people who loaded Friday's M6 would never get any updates any more; decision to stick to the version uprev, since the respective bundle is not used a lot
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*** In general, accidental major version uprev should be reverted because the error would stay around for long and might break existing binary bundles who can't be fixed any more
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*** In this case, it was OK to keep since the bundle isn't used much
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* Alex: '''Generic Editor and Testing'''
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** Looking very good already - only 1/3 of the code needed for getting the same feature set as with existing methods for creating editors
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** Looking for features to add missing documentation (workflows, use-cases like converting existing editors): End goal is to provide everything that the JDT Editor is providing
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** Dani: Likes replacement of pages on multipage editors, and some new editors; would not consider replacing the JDT editor
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** In the Platform.ISV docs bundle, there should be a section for "how to write your own editor"
  
 
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'''July 25, 2012:'''
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'''Mar 7, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex, Sergey, Lars
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* '''CBI Build'''
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* Dani: '''4.6.3 Updates''' - Looking good, Equinox bugs moved out by Tom
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** For SR1, the build can produce what the Release Train needs ... but not all the extra validation
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* Dani: '''4.7M7 Update''' - Infrastructure issues but testing looks OK (except Mac which is not built yet)
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** Need to run both builds for now ... until the CBI team's bytecode verifier produces the same output
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* Dani: '''Java 9 / Planning Council Update''' - Postponing Oxygen was discussed but denied; late July update being considered
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** CBI team continues to look at the list of diffs and improve their builder
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** See the [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-planning-council/ eclipse.org-planning-council archives]
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** Platform team would be OK dropping the legacy build once the bytecode validator has no diffs
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* Lars: '''Platform.Resources Leadership''' after Sergey Leaving
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** Platform team can't commit more resources to CBI now (Paul Webster already heavily involved)
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** Dani pinged Szymon, will continue discussion when we hear back; merging with platform.ui is one option
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* '''Losing Commits on the Orion git repo'''
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** Sergey: The "Team" and "Resources/Filesystem" parts could be considered separately. Consider merging Team into UI.
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** Dozen commits or so
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** Alex: One top Platform Project would make sense now...
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** Might be a defect in the Orion git tools, but the server side should prevent that !!!
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** Dani: reconsider when McQ is back. In the past, SWT was seen as separate.
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** DenyNonFastForward should have protected ... need an extra layer of protection ?
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** Dani: Releng needs to be separate and protected because Releng committers can also change Hudson jobs, shut down servers etc where no history is kept
  
 
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'''June 27, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John
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'''Feb 28, 2017''' - Sergey, Alex, Martin, McQ
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* Eclipse Demo Camps - none in Ottawa
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* Alex: '''Short update on Neon.3'''
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* Going to skip the arch calls for all of July - leave the PMC slot in place.
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** 2 jdt.core bugs asking for PMC approval - regressions compared to Neon.2, approved
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* Should keep an eye on the Community feedback for Eclipse 4
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** PPC rebuild is in, so looking good
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* Sergey will leave Eclipse work after end of March
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* Martin: '''RCPTT / Reddeer / Testing'''
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** Reddeer: No tests that check Platform only - everything is on higher level today (WTP, server connectors etc)
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** Runs on Neon.2 right now inside RH - the infrastructure isn't built for consuming daily builds
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** Would take some effort reducing to Platform only - no time for this in the RH team at the moment
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** '''AI Martin''' will look at integrating RCPTT as time permits; would like {{bug|505826}} resolved ideally
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* McQ will be out next 2 weeks
  
 
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'''June 13, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John
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'''Feb 21, 2017''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars, Sergey
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* Lars: {{Bug|512273}} Allow any committer to retrigger Gerrit validation, and {{Bug|512319}} allow rebase
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* 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.
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** '''Agreement''' to allow retrigger for anyone, but rebase should be done by committers working on a contribution
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* We will need to tag the release but we can wait until we are officially done (week of June 25th).
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** Dani: Not clear where to retrigger (Sergey: it's discoverable once permission is there)
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** '''AI Lars''' follow up on the bug
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* Martin: '''UI Testing'''
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** [http://eclipse.org/rcptt RCPTT] is completely Open Source; commercial server could be used for load balancing tests but this is not necessary
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** Alex: Interested in Reddeer for upstreaming tests that already exist at RH; good reports about stability and scalability at RH
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** When we decide which way we go, we need a plan who's doing the work (create the tests). Maintenance would depend on their structure.
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** Some Reddeer tests already upstreamed with WTP and Linuxtools
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** Lars: Where would the tests live? - In a common project accessible to all, or with the component they test ?
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*** Lars, Dani: Since these are functional end-to-end, should live in their own repository, accessible by all committers.
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** '''AI Martin''' follow-up with Jubula. Try RCPTT on Windows and Linux. Give feedback till next week.
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** '''AI Alex''' share list of Reddeer tests existing at RH
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** '''AI Lars''' play with the Reddeer API
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* Dani: '''Update on PPC''' drop 32-bit, build 64-bit both le and be on RH VMs {{bug|512224}}
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** Alex: ppc64 currently built on Fedora 25; could build on REL7 if foundation requests a machine from RH Brno Farm '''AI Alex and Dani''' ask Denis
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* Dani: '''Neon.3 RC3''' please keep an eye on builds
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* Dani: Away this Friday afternoon and whole next week
  
 
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'''June 6, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, John, Andrew
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'''Feb 15, 2017'''
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* 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
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* 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.
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* 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.
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'''Feb 8, 2017''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars
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'''May 23, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin
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* Dani: '''{{bug|509412}}''' - Adopt newer JSch for Platform 4.6.3
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* McQ: '''CBI / Tycho builder''': Paul Webster driving Platform efforts (AI Martin notify about {{bug|359719}})
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** Alex is fully consumed with Webkit work for Oxygen
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* Martin: {{bug|380984}} ant / Orbit respin? - Unclear for now
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** Need to move target platform to the latest Orbit in order to pick up the new JSch; that might cause other changes, since Orbit retention policy keeps only one version
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* McQ: Finally figured out some long-standing bug eg "Variables view sometimes empty"
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** Dani: Cherry-pick the new JSch recipe to the Orbit Maintenance Branch ?
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** Dani: It's 2 issues: First-time switch to Perspective deferred to 4.2.1, but {{bug|379818}} is finally fixed
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** Martin: Looks like in the past, new Orbit R-Builds were made for Maintenance ... but with the move of Orbit to git, it is unclear how branch builds for Neon.x would be made
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** The actual underlying defect had been in there for years
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* Dani: '''Update on RT PMC (Equinox) coming to Platform'''
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** Tom Watson is in favor, reached out to Wayne for process
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** Potentially move entire IP log, but IP team is currently busy with CQs for Oxygen
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* Dani: '''Finally Unblocked on Java Language Server'''
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** Dirk from Microsoft signed the committer agreement
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* Dani: '''Scenarios for UI Testing'''
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** Initial Scenario from the PMC Notes can already be used; once that works, could extend to more
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* Dani: '''Sign Up for Security Rep'''
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** See [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/tools-pmc/msg03927.html Wayne's message to PMCs] requesting PMC attendance
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** John Arthorne used to be the Security Rep;
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** Tasks: Follow the security mailing list; currently low volume but might get higher with IoT getting up speed
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** '''RESOLUTION: Alex agrees to sign up''' since already following security issues
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* Dani+Alex: '''libswt-gtk3 natives for PPC'''
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** Alex: Trying to limit the list of supported GTK versions to maximum 2; now at the latest GTK2 version
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** Currently, only Intel builds do both GTK2 and GTK3; PowerPC only does GTK2; the current hardware is unable to install REL7
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** Would prefer building at the Foundation over using custom company hardware; cost of hardware is around 50K
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** Primary Platforms should be built at the Foundation, secondary builds can be contributed ... should Linux-PPC be considered primary ?
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** Alex could easily provide a Fedora Platform, but it would be much newer than anything else that's around; ARM32 and ARM64 builds are already provided by Fedora
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** If somebody (IBM) needs an older version like CentOS, it would need to be provided by such adopters
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** '''AI Dani+McQ''' find out on priority of Linux-PPC (32bit, 64bit)
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* Alex: '''Update on Reddeer Testing Framework'''
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** A new version is being written, that no longer uses SWTBot underneath; there's a plan making this an Eclipse project
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** Engineers claim that after the rewrite it's a lot more stable recognizing widgets than on top of SWTBot
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** Martin has been looking at [http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/tutorials/rcp-testing-tool-rcptt-basic-tutorial/ RCPTT] which looks promising initially (easy to record tests) but unclear how stable such tests would be.
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** (call had to be closed at this point)
  
 
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'''May 16, 2012:''' - McQ, John, Dani, Martin
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<strike>Feb 1, 2017 - cancelled</strike>
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* 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)
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** John thinks it's not a big deal
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* John: '''CBI Patches''' - CBI has lots of patches downstream in their POM's ... RC2 is the last chance getting that in
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** Auto-generating the POM.XML would be nice but that's not how things work today
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'''May 9, 2012:''' - McQ, John, Dani
 
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* John: Classic update can still be enabled via capabilities - should we remove it?
 
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** Dani: in general "yes", but too late now
 
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** McQ: too late, but make sure we do it for Kepler
 
  
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'''Jan 24, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex
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'''May 2, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew, John
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* Dani: '''New Jetty Version''' - Alex will look at it after FOSDEM (Feb 7)
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* John: '''Forking of SWT''' 3.8 and 4.2 are now separate Streams with CTabFolder implementation being the only difference
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* Dani: '''javax.xml''' - Plan to announce removal from the feature on cross-project for M6
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* Dani: '''Icons''' (not discussed)
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** Cannot remove from the compile prerequisites, because plugins still on Java 5 need it
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* Alex: '''[http://jboss-reddeer.github.io/reddeer/ Reddeer Testing Framework]'''
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** JBoss Tools uses Reddeer for overall user story validation
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** Lars: Why wasn't the framework added to SWTBot? -
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*** Reddeer is not a framework, it's meant as a test harness library - smaller scope than SWTBot or Jubula
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*** API Stability across multiple Eclipse versions is out of scope, thus created outside Eclipse for now
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** Martin: Any improvements in object recognition compared to plain SWTBot?
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*** Reddeer tries to make use of the best mechanisms from SWTBot for object recognition (Finder, or callbots). That saves users from making newbie mistakes in SWTBot, but apart from that it's no better
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*** No solution for external (non-Eclipse) dialogs ... that's not doable in SWT
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** Lars: EclipseSource people have been talking about [http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/tutorials/rcp-testing-tool-rcptt-basic-tutorial/ RCPTT], it might be able to deal with native tooltips etc
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** Dani and Lars think Jubula is too heaviweight; might work for Integration Builds, but not for individual developer's builds. Local setup must be really easy. Also, setup looks non-trivial, needs resources to work on ... and, doesn't seem to add much benefit over SWTBot (assuming that Jubula agent doesn't hook into native libs like win32, Cocoa or GTK).
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*** Alex: Especially integration in Maven may be hard.
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** Alex: Main limitation is that we don't have resources to actually create tests. Suggest reaching out for help asking people who would actually create tests ... then use whatever framework that people would like to use.
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** Dani and Lars won't be able to come up with a workflow scenario before end of next week --&gt; Alex will come up with an idea since he has meetings on Monday.
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*** Dani: Launch Eclipse, choose a workspace, open the package explorer, create a Java project (helloworld). Expand later, maybe into quick assist.
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*** '''AI Alex''' to demo Reddeer in 2 weeks
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*** '''AI Martin''' to try installing Jubula until next week
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*** '''AI Martin''' ping Sergey re: asking for help on Platform/Resources.
  
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'''April 18, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew, John
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'''Jan 17, 2017''' - Dani, Sergey, Alex, Lars, Martin, McQ
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* Martin: [[E4/Scripting]] initiative
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* Sergey: '''Merging platform.resources with platform.ui'''
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** 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
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** Seems that more contributions to platform.resources are made by platform.ui committers, than others. Only 2 platform.resources committers seem active (and those two are actually platform.ui committers as well)
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*** Martin: Approach is very pragmatic - don't see anybody investing into new Frameworks at this point but converging on what already exists
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*** Opening up to Platform UI would encourage more people to actually contribute to resources. Strive for shared access on components that are interrelated
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*** If this goes towards macro recording, the recorder should utilize the e4 app model
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** Dani: Merging into platform.ui would mean making Dani and Lars the leaders for signoff - that causes too much burden
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** 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)
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** Sergey: Platform/Team has actually more synergy with Platform/UI than resources
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* Dani: '''API Approval Process''' Approval on Bug plus sent to eclipse-pmc list (like last year)
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** Alex: For gcc for example, there is a notion of "maintainers" per git repo for signoffs - that's independent of leadership or commit rights
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* John: '''PDE Committers''' - perception of not being open
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*** McQ: Not sure how adding another role would simplify things ?
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** McQ would like to see a plan item for next year "actively promote more committers from outside"
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** Sergey: The problem for signoffs is not is much the volume of commits, but the volume of failing tests
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* Martin: [[Asterisk]] - will need a dialin for Dani in Switzerland; '''AI Dani''' forward his dialin to Martin for the time being
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** Alex: The manpower of Platform Resources is so low by now that even {{bug|509412}} was not being filed ... existing committers do not really seem to "own" the project any more, this is an indication for merging
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** Martin: Can't see how merging into a bigger entity would resolve the "ownership" problem. Perhaps make interested contributors Platform/Resources committers instead, and see how to resolve the ownership issue on the smaller scope ?
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** McQ: Propose applying the recent simplification of gaining commit rights (for "known" committers)
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* Lars: '''Removing javax.xml'''
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** Was introduced only for very old JRE's , it is part of the JRE now
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** Martin: Might cause a uses constraint issue since not exporting the package with version any more, see http://njbartlett.name/2011/09/02/uses-constraints.html
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** Lars: With javax.annotation, that was solved with smart reexporting
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** McQ: OK with removal when we can confirm we're not breaking things
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** Dani: Whoever requested removal should double-check whether the API is the same.
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**'''AI Lars''' send a note to Tom Watson as the submitter.
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* Dani: '''Project Updates'''
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** Deadlines upcoming for CQs and APIs - see Endgame Plan, please provide feedback
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* McQ: '''UI Testing and Jubula'''
  
 
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'''April 11, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew, John
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'''Jan 10, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, Sergey, McQ - Special Guest: Alex Schladebeck
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* Martin: '''LTS vs Quality/Fixes in Current Stream''' - Like John's reply making the link between the two
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* Dani: '''Platform Bits on Maven Central''' - Now available thanks to Stephan Herrmann
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* McQ/John: '''Builds''' - Moving forward
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* Dani: '''Board Committer Rep Elections''' opening
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* McQ: '''CBI Builds''' - Platform not going to take any ownership but will be a consumer like others - still shooting for Juno SR1
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* Dani: After David Williams' move, Wayne is looking for a Planning Council Chair; Fred Gurr has taken over Simrel Releng
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* Andrew: '''4.2 Builds in Fedora 17''' - Testing now
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* Dani: objenesis (Mockito / Easymock dependency) and Java9 - will wait for how upstream is planning to address issues
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* McQ: '''IBM Ottawa Team moving to new building''' - expect delays during next couple days
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* Lars: '''Equinox move to Platform''' - no updates - '''AI Dani''' talk to Tom again
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* McQ / AlexS: '''Jubula'''
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** In the past, with lots of full-time Platform committers, sniff tests just happened automatically giving great confidence. Now, with more part-time work happening, there is more need for end-to-end workflow test automation to give quality confidence
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'''April 4, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew
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** Martin: On top of low-level JUnit tests, want at least very few highlevel end-to-end test to avoid "Eclipse looking silly". Need UI tests that are really stable (avoid random failures)
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* Dani: '''VM Requirements''' - Help no longer works on Java 5, this surprised some people... but Project Plan talks about a Java 6 req now
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** Dani: On EGit SWTBot tests, too many libraries to install, how to run on Gerrit HIPP slaves
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** 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)
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** AlexS: Original Jubula goal was to allow non-programmers write tests. Beginning 2015, the client API (for controlling the SUT) was separated from the front-end, was separated from the ITE. This allows writing UI tests programmatically, and avoids the need for a database.
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* Dani: '''Jeff still mentioned as PMC member'''
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*** For identifying components/actions to write tests, officially an object mapping needs to be done in the front-end (ITE, integrated test environment). But there may be a shortcut available for getting object IDs
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** '''AI Dani''' send E-Mail
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*** Compared to SWTBot, Jubula is 90% blackbox (code highlevel actions rather than things like calling setText())
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* Martin: '''Concern about Platform Quality''' - eg SWT Redraws on 3.7.x - Old-time committers moving away
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*** UI Tests typically take longer than unittests by definition (due to setup, teardown, ...), so might not be applicable for Gerrit triggers
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** 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
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*** Dani: Would like to run a first test on CentOS first, as part of the integration tests
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** Martin: Code contributions are easy, hi-quality triage and review are harder
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*** Lars: Robustness of the tests? - SWT on Mac is problematic, but Linux and Windows should be OK.
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** Martin: Re-think the idea of having committers paid by the Foundation and Member Companies paying their share
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*** Martin: Dependencies? - Around 5MB Libs, plus the agent needs to be installed (around 100MB). Once that is there, tests are stand-alone on a laptop. There might also be an "embedded agent" but not sure ('''AI AlexS to check''')
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*** Example: Why would Pascal review p2 in his sparetime ... but if he gets paid per bug his experience can be extremely valuable
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*** Getting a first test up and running ? - Maybe around 1 week, depends on what to do ?
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*** Be more creative on resourcing side
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**** Lars: Would like something for quick access. Martin would something for "fresh download" (fresh config area + workspace) maybe combined with quick access.
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** McQ: In favor of putting more structure in place similar to LTS ("hire people for fixes") ... just continue with LTS ?
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*** '''AI AlexS''' send slides
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*** IBM will have a need for fixes for at least another 8 years .. but that's a very self-serving focus
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*** '''AI Dani + Lars''' propose scenarios. Check possible owners of the initiative on Platform/UI side
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** [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] '''AI Martin''' send E-Mail to Mike to keep the ball rolling
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*** '''AI AlexS''' check possible PlatformUI Contributors from Jubula team to get started
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* Dani: {{bug|375292}} '''Reference to Marketplace in the SDK'''
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** Martin: "Classic" is a Building Block but "Packages" are for end users
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** McQ: The purity of the SDK in itself isn't relevant
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*** 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
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*** [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] '''AI Martin''' mail Markus
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'''March 21, 2012:''' - McQ, Dani, Andrew, Martin
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* McQ '''Oracle Java on Mac'''
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* Dani '''denyNonFastForward'''
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* McQ '''JDT Team might see some losses'''
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* Andrew '''Running OpenJDK tests now on ARM''' :)
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* McQ: '''Common Build Infrastructure at the Foundation'''
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* Dani: '''Gerrit Move'''
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** John: Important information needs to stay in Bugzilla ... don't pull from outside git exclusively
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* Andrew: '''Platform Defect Contest'''
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** Martin: Could encourage triage as part of the contest, and only count good/new bugs
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** John: Some low-hanging fruit bugs in Platform UI but not necessarily in 4.x ("helpwanted")
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** John: Re-introduce the "greatbug" keyword ?
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* John: '''PDE API Moved'''
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** Someone from SAP (Dimitar Giormov) Asked adding back the provisional API such that they could support 2 versions of Eclipse with one codebase
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** McQ: Would have helped them 4 years ago .. but at the moment don't have enough people
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*** McQ: Question how pervasive their use of the old API is ... how much Reflection would they need to put int
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'''February 22, 2012:''' - Dani, McQ, John, Andrew
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* McQ: '''4.2 Quality''' ... current list of defects looks manageable to tick all off .. any messaging we want to do ?
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* Dani: '''No UA Committers any more''' - move UA under Platform UI such that at least somebody can apply patches
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* John: Decide when to switch 4.2 builds from re-using 3.x binary bundles vs full 4.x builds
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** AI: '''Kim''' to send 4.x test results to the mailing list, consider switching right after M5
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* McQ: '''Note about 4.2 on Release Train'''
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* Andrew: '''Eclipse 4.2 for Fedora''' - Feature note written for Eclipse Juno led to some discussion at Eng.Steering Committee, but finally approved
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* Dani: Team down by 1 but no impact (Dani is going to take over responsibilities)
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* John: '''Build Failures in UA, Update, PDE, p2 yesterday''' after the move to Java 7... nobody watching these, need to find caretakers
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** Fedora 17 think about shipping 4.2m6 (work ongoing) - that would be a large stack on top of 4.2
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** 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
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* Andrew: '''Cairo and GTK3'''
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* John: '''4.2 compiling now'''
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* Martin: '''Updated JSch-0.1.44 version''' - how to announce properly
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= Archive =
 
= Archive =
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* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2016 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2016]]
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* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2015 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2015]]
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* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2014 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2014]]
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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]]

Revision as of 12:10, 21 March 2017

Documents

Some documents written and/or used by the PMC:

Meeting Schedule

The Eclipse Project PMC has a weekly phone meeting every Tuesday at 11.00am EST.

Meeting Minutes

Mar 21, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Dani: Dirk Fauth Requests on eclipse-pmc
    • Alex agrees with Dani
    • Where does the "0.x version before graduation" requirement come from? - Development Process, but maybe didn't apply to plugin versions
    • Dani thinks that forcing a 0.x version causes forced breakage once something goes API thus doesn't make much sense
  • Dani: Szymon Ptasiewicz

Mar 14, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Dani: Java 9 readiness - see cross-project-issues-dev
    • Step 1: For testing, just download a Java 9 beta JVM, add the module -- all testing is possible from commandline
      • Platform team has an install, but Mike was concerned about legal issues - a bug is open to allow all simrel access
    • Step 2: Running the JDeps tools as per the Java 9 Readiness wiki can show violations
      • Can even run with Java 8, Dani ran it on simrel, it's looking mostly good, only Orbit shows violations
      • Platform team has some scripts; for Hudson there's even a Mojo, but it aborts when it finds a violation.
    • Step 3: Reflection - Will only figure out when knowing the code or testing
    • All these 3 tests can be done without the Java 9 patch in PDE. Only for debugging, one needs to self-host.
      • This can be done either with Ed's Oomph support, or via the Marketplace
    • Platform team is still negotiating options for better support with Oracle
  • Dani: JUnit 5 considers cutting down features for aligning with Oxygen
    • Decision to align, contributing support to Oxygen Update 1 in September
  • Dani: 2 Platform Issues in M6
    • platform.ui reexports everything including jface - lower bundles not updated - JDT may fail if installed (fixed for M7)
    • major version uprev: interface not marked as @noimplement; reverting the version, people who loaded Friday's M6 would never get any updates any more; decision to stick to the version uprev, since the respective bundle is not used a lot
      • In general, accidental major version uprev should be reverted because the error would stay around for long and might break existing binary bundles who can't be fixed any more
      • In this case, it was OK to keep since the bundle isn't used much
  • Alex: Generic Editor and Testing
    • Looking very good already - only 1/3 of the code needed for getting the same feature set as with existing methods for creating editors
    • Looking for features to add missing documentation (workflows, use-cases like converting existing editors): End goal is to provide everything that the JDT Editor is providing
    • Dani: Likes replacement of pages on multipage editors, and some new editors; would not consider replacing the JDT editor
    • In the Platform.ISV docs bundle, there should be a section for "how to write your own editor"

Mar 7, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex, Sergey, Lars

  • Dani: 4.6.3 Updates - Looking good, Equinox bugs moved out by Tom
  • Dani: 4.7M7 Update - Infrastructure issues but testing looks OK (except Mac which is not built yet)
  • Dani: Java 9 / Planning Council Update - Postponing Oxygen was discussed but denied; late July update being considered
  • Lars: Platform.Resources Leadership after Sergey Leaving
    • Dani pinged Szymon, will continue discussion when we hear back; merging with platform.ui is one option
    • Sergey: The "Team" and "Resources/Filesystem" parts could be considered separately. Consider merging Team into UI.
    • Alex: One top Platform Project would make sense now...
    • Dani: reconsider when McQ is back. In the past, SWT was seen as separate.
    • Dani: Releng needs to be separate and protected because Releng committers can also change Hudson jobs, shut down servers etc where no history is kept

Feb 28, 2017 - Sergey, Alex, Martin, McQ

  • Alex: Short update on Neon.3
    • 2 jdt.core bugs asking for PMC approval - regressions compared to Neon.2, approved
    • PPC rebuild is in, so looking good
  • Sergey will leave Eclipse work after end of March
  • Martin: RCPTT / Reddeer / Testing
    • Reddeer: No tests that check Platform only - everything is on higher level today (WTP, server connectors etc)
    • Runs on Neon.2 right now inside RH - the infrastructure isn't built for consuming daily builds
    • Would take some effort reducing to Platform only - no time for this in the RH team at the moment
    • AI Martin will look at integrating RCPTT as time permits; would like bug 505826 resolved ideally
  • McQ will be out next 2 weeks

Feb 21, 2017 - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars, Sergey

  • Lars: bug 512273 Allow any committer to retrigger Gerrit validation, and bug 512319 allow rebase
    • Agreement to allow retrigger for anyone, but rebase should be done by committers working on a contribution
    • Dani: Not clear where to retrigger (Sergey: it's discoverable once permission is there)
    • AI Lars follow up on the bug
  • Martin: UI Testing
    • RCPTT is completely Open Source; commercial server could be used for load balancing tests but this is not necessary
    • Alex: Interested in Reddeer for upstreaming tests that already exist at RH; good reports about stability and scalability at RH
    • When we decide which way we go, we need a plan who's doing the work (create the tests). Maintenance would depend on their structure.
    • Some Reddeer tests already upstreamed with WTP and Linuxtools
    • Lars: Where would the tests live? - In a common project accessible to all, or with the component they test ?
      • Lars, Dani: Since these are functional end-to-end, should live in their own repository, accessible by all committers.
    • AI Martin follow-up with Jubula. Try RCPTT on Windows and Linux. Give feedback till next week.
    • AI Alex share list of Reddeer tests existing at RH
    • AI Lars play with the Reddeer API
  • Dani: Update on PPC drop 32-bit, build 64-bit both le and be on RH VMs bug 512224
    • Alex: ppc64 currently built on Fedora 25; could build on REL7 if foundation requests a machine from RH Brno Farm AI Alex and Dani ask Denis
  • Dani: Neon.3 RC3 please keep an eye on builds
  • Dani: Away this Friday afternoon and whole next week

Feb 15, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars

  • Dani: bug 509412 - Adopt newer JSch for Platform 4.6.3
    • Alex is fully consumed with Webkit work for Oxygen
    • Need to move target platform to the latest Orbit in order to pick up the new JSch; that might cause other changes, since Orbit retention policy keeps only one version
    • Dani: Cherry-pick the new JSch recipe to the Orbit Maintenance Branch ?
    • Martin: Looks like in the past, new Orbit R-Builds were made for Maintenance ... but with the move of Orbit to git, it is unclear how branch builds for Neon.x would be made
  • Dani: Update on RT PMC (Equinox) coming to Platform
    • Tom Watson is in favor, reached out to Wayne for process
    • Potentially move entire IP log, but IP team is currently busy with CQs for Oxygen
  • Dani: Finally Unblocked on Java Language Server
    • Dirk from Microsoft signed the committer agreement
  • Dani: Scenarios for UI Testing
    • Initial Scenario from the PMC Notes can already be used; once that works, could extend to more
  • Dani: Sign Up for Security Rep
    • See Wayne's message to PMCs requesting PMC attendance
    • John Arthorne used to be the Security Rep;
    • Tasks: Follow the security mailing list; currently low volume but might get higher with IoT getting up speed
    • RESOLUTION: Alex agrees to sign up since already following security issues
  • Dani+Alex: libswt-gtk3 natives for PPC
    • Alex: Trying to limit the list of supported GTK versions to maximum 2; now at the latest GTK2 version
    • Currently, only Intel builds do both GTK2 and GTK3; PowerPC only does GTK2; the current hardware is unable to install REL7
    • Would prefer building at the Foundation over using custom company hardware; cost of hardware is around 50K
    • Primary Platforms should be built at the Foundation, secondary builds can be contributed ... should Linux-PPC be considered primary ?
    • Alex could easily provide a Fedora Platform, but it would be much newer than anything else that's around; ARM32 and ARM64 builds are already provided by Fedora
    • If somebody (IBM) needs an older version like CentOS, it would need to be provided by such adopters
    • AI Dani+McQ find out on priority of Linux-PPC (32bit, 64bit)
  • Alex: Update on Reddeer Testing Framework
    • A new version is being written, that no longer uses SWTBot underneath; there's a plan making this an Eclipse project
    • Engineers claim that after the rewrite it's a lot more stable recognizing widgets than on top of SWTBot
    • Martin has been looking at RCPTT which looks promising initially (easy to record tests) but unclear how stable such tests would be.
    • (call had to be closed at this point)

Feb 1, 2017 - cancelled

Jan 24, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex

  • Dani: New Jetty Version - Alex will look at it after FOSDEM (Feb 7)
  • Dani: javax.xml - Plan to announce removal from the feature on cross-project for M6
    • Cannot remove from the compile prerequisites, because plugins still on Java 5 need it
  • Alex: Reddeer Testing Framework
    • JBoss Tools uses Reddeer for overall user story validation
    • Lars: Why wasn't the framework added to SWTBot? -
      • Reddeer is not a framework, it's meant as a test harness library - smaller scope than SWTBot or Jubula
      • API Stability across multiple Eclipse versions is out of scope, thus created outside Eclipse for now
    • Martin: Any improvements in object recognition compared to plain SWTBot?
      • Reddeer tries to make use of the best mechanisms from SWTBot for object recognition (Finder, or callbots). That saves users from making newbie mistakes in SWTBot, but apart from that it's no better
      • No solution for external (non-Eclipse) dialogs ... that's not doable in SWT
    • Lars: EclipseSource people have been talking about RCPTT, it might be able to deal with native tooltips etc
    • Dani and Lars think Jubula is too heaviweight; might work for Integration Builds, but not for individual developer's builds. Local setup must be really easy. Also, setup looks non-trivial, needs resources to work on ... and, doesn't seem to add much benefit over SWTBot (assuming that Jubula agent doesn't hook into native libs like win32, Cocoa or GTK).
      • Alex: Especially integration in Maven may be hard.
    • Alex: Main limitation is that we don't have resources to actually create tests. Suggest reaching out for help asking people who would actually create tests ... then use whatever framework that people would like to use.
    • Dani and Lars won't be able to come up with a workflow scenario before end of next week --> Alex will come up with an idea since he has meetings on Monday.
      • Dani: Launch Eclipse, choose a workspace, open the package explorer, create a Java project (helloworld). Expand later, maybe into quick assist.
      • AI Alex to demo Reddeer in 2 weeks
      • AI Martin to try installing Jubula until next week
      • AI Martin ping Sergey re: asking for help on Platform/Resources.

Jan 17, 2017 - Dani, Sergey, Alex, Lars, Martin, McQ

  • Sergey: Merging platform.resources with platform.ui
    • Seems that more contributions to platform.resources are made by platform.ui committers, than others. Only 2 platform.resources committers seem active (and those two are actually platform.ui committers as well)
      • Opening up to Platform UI would encourage more people to actually contribute to resources. Strive for shared access on components that are interrelated
    • Dani: Merging into platform.ui would mean making Dani and Lars the leaders for signoff - that causes too much burden
    • Sergey: Platform/Team has actually more synergy with Platform/UI than resources
    • Alex: For gcc for example, there is a notion of "maintainers" per git repo for signoffs - that's independent of leadership or commit rights
      • McQ: Not sure how adding another role would simplify things ?
    • Sergey: The problem for signoffs is not is much the volume of commits, but the volume of failing tests
    • Alex: The manpower of Platform Resources is so low by now that even bug 509412 was not being filed ... existing committers do not really seem to "own" the project any more, this is an indication for merging
    • Martin: Can't see how merging into a bigger entity would resolve the "ownership" problem. Perhaps make interested contributors Platform/Resources committers instead, and see how to resolve the ownership issue on the smaller scope ?
    • McQ: Propose applying the recent simplification of gaining commit rights (for "known" committers)
  • Lars: Removing javax.xml
    • Was introduced only for very old JRE's , it is part of the JRE now
    • Martin: Might cause a uses constraint issue since not exporting the package with version any more, see http://njbartlett.name/2011/09/02/uses-constraints.html
    • Lars: With javax.annotation, that was solved with smart reexporting
    • McQ: OK with removal when we can confirm we're not breaking things
    • Dani: Whoever requested removal should double-check whether the API is the same.
    • AI Lars send a note to Tom Watson as the submitter.
  • Dani: Project Updates
    • Deadlines upcoming for CQs and APIs - see Endgame Plan, please provide feedback
  • McQ: UI Testing and Jubula

Jan 10, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, Sergey, McQ - Special Guest: Alex Schladebeck

  • Dani: Platform Bits on Maven Central - Now available thanks to Stephan Herrmann
  • Dani: Board Committer Rep Elections opening
  • Dani: After David Williams' move, Wayne is looking for a Planning Council Chair; Fred Gurr has taken over Simrel Releng
  • Dani: objenesis (Mockito / Easymock dependency) and Java9 - will wait for how upstream is planning to address issues
  • Lars: Equinox move to Platform - no updates - AI Dani talk to Tom again
  • McQ / AlexS: Jubula
    • In the past, with lots of full-time Platform committers, sniff tests just happened automatically giving great confidence. Now, with more part-time work happening, there is more need for end-to-end workflow test automation to give quality confidence
    • Martin: On top of low-level JUnit tests, want at least very few highlevel end-to-end test to avoid "Eclipse looking silly". Need UI tests that are really stable (avoid random failures)
    • Dani: On EGit SWTBot tests, too many libraries to install, how to run on Gerrit HIPP slaves
    • AlexS: Original Jubula goal was to allow non-programmers write tests. Beginning 2015, the client API (for controlling the SUT) was separated from the front-end, was separated from the ITE. This allows writing UI tests programmatically, and avoids the need for a database.
      • For identifying components/actions to write tests, officially an object mapping needs to be done in the front-end (ITE, integrated test environment). But there may be a shortcut available for getting object IDs
      • Compared to SWTBot, Jubula is 90% blackbox (code highlevel actions rather than things like calling setText())
      • UI Tests typically take longer than unittests by definition (due to setup, teardown, ...), so might not be applicable for Gerrit triggers
      • Dani: Would like to run a first test on CentOS first, as part of the integration tests
      • Lars: Robustness of the tests? - SWT on Mac is problematic, but Linux and Windows should be OK.
      • Martin: Dependencies? - Around 5MB Libs, plus the agent needs to be installed (around 100MB). Once that is there, tests are stand-alone on a laptop. There might also be an "embedded agent" but not sure (AI AlexS to check)
      • Getting a first test up and running ? - Maybe around 1 week, depends on what to do ?
        • Lars: Would like something for quick access. Martin would something for "fresh download" (fresh config area + workspace) maybe combined with quick access.
      • AI AlexS send slides
      • AI Dani + Lars propose scenarios. Check possible owners of the initiative on Platform/UI side
      • AI AlexS check possible PlatformUI Contributors from Jubula team to get started

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