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= Documents =
 
= Documents =
 
 
Some documents written and/or used by the PMC:
 
Some documents written and/or used by the PMC:
  
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= Meeting Schedule =
 
= Meeting Schedule =
  
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 =
'''November 27, 2013''' - Andrew, Dani, Martin
 
* Dani: '''Standalone Eclipse Compiler for Java now requires Java 6''' (target can be Java ME or older releases, but host must be Java 6)
 
** Andrew will talk to OpenJDK people - might affect them for bootstrapping their compiler
 
* Dani: {{bug|421321}} - Change '''Eclipse-SourceReferences headers''' from 'git:' to 'http:'
 
** Makes sense since easier for firewalls, but would require touching all bundles :(
 
** AI Martin will comment on the bug -- handling this in the git CM provider makes more sense than converting all URI's
 
* Andrew: '''Java 6 vs Java 7''' - Platform provides Java 6, EPP requires Java 7
 
** Project Plan / Reference Platforms: Should be testing on the latest publicly available JVM. Don't want to test on Previews.
 
** Dani will switch the project plan to the "latest available" JVM updates.
 
* McQ: '''New People Coming Online''' to work on SWT, JDT, PDE.
 
** Andrew: Alex Kurtakov from Redhat also interested on Platform.
 
  
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'''August 22, 2017''' - Alex, Dani, Martin
'''November 20, 2013''' - McQ, Martin
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* All: '''Conference System Woes''' - Dani had 7 minutes trouble dialing in; Alex was kicked out
* McQ: '''Silenio stepping down as SWT Lead''' - Shift to Orion
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* Dani: '''Plan''' - '''AI Martin''' review
** Current work is well in hand
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** Target Platform reduced - removed too much? - and Subproject plans. Rest is copy-and-paste.
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* Dani: '''Subproject Merge''' - Everything approved, waiting for implementation by EMO.
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* Dani: '''RC2 this week''' - Still many Platform/UI bugs, Dani will make a pass moving out since Lars is on vacation
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* Martin: '''feature/bundle version issues'''
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** Dani: Checking versions is quite time consuming, there's no tooling solution for the workspace right now (but there are reports).
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** For branding bundles and features, rules are different than for others - Dani currently doing those, since few people have access
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** Currently we're looking good, but automation would be better than manual nagging
  
 
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'''November 13, 2013''' - Andrew, Dani, McQ, John, Martin
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'''August 15, 2017''' - Alex, Dani
* McQ: '''EclipseCon''' - 8 talks submitted. Ian looking for JavaScript talks.
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* Dani: '''subproject merge''' initiated - waiting for webmasters
* John: '''Plan for Luna'''
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* Dani: Provided Photon (4.8) release record and plan - please provide comments
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* Alex and Dani discussed feature/bundle version issues - next builds should be better
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''November 6, 2013''' - Andrew, Martin, Dani, McQ, John
 
* Martin: '''Detached Views ?''' - what are people doing with them ? - Reach out to Eric Moffat / ask on UI-Dev mailing list
 
** McQ: Main difference between 3.x detached views is that 3.x was just a view, in 4.x can define a layout in them
 
** John: Always had the characteristic of being strongly coupled to a main window
 
** McQ: In 4.x, there should be a way for doing any workflow you want
 
* John: '''Discussion around Look and Feel in Eclipse 4'''
 
** ide-dev BOF at ECE ; some of people's complaints look like low-hanging fruit (inactive tabs, color of drag boxes, ...)
 
** Platform want to get out of the business defining the L&F of the EPP packages - should be a community effort
 
*** Dani: What Platform does should be usable
 
*** Martin: Diversity makes sense - consistency is important too, but you need to try things to know what can work. Today, community doesn't even know what is possible with the e4 styling, so moving forward and allowing more styles is a good thing now.
 
** John: There's the Chrome theme on Marketplace which is quite popular ... Platform could just pick some Theming and ship it
 
* McQ: '''Rumors on JDT''' - 11 active committers, 3 new in the past year - this '''is''' an Open Project
 
* John '''ECE Hackathon''' went really well, 15 committers - lots of interest :)
 
  
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'''August 8, 2017''' - Alex, Martin, Dani
'''October 30, 2013''' - McQ, Dani, Andrew, Martin
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* Eclipse [[Asterisk]] system is not working reliably (again). It took Dani 6 minutes until he could dial in (using the Swiss number - US number failed repeatedly). McQ can't dial in until 10 min later.
* Andrew: Excited by {{bug|379102}} Kris Daniel '''patch for Shared Installs'''
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* Dani: starting the '''planning record for Photon''' to announce participation in M1
* Andrew: ECE Hackathon went well; "Let's make Eclipse Fun Again" BoF
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** Toplevel items: JUnit5, Java9. Subplans on the Wiki.
* McQ: Hackathon next week for BlueMax cloudfoundry (Orion)
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* Dani: '''subproject merge''' - wanted to wait for M1, but should be done this week
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* Alex: '''ppc64be''' - Sravan is waiting on final decision whether it will be removed in Photon
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** Dani: PMC decision was settled, so removed from Eclipse plan - IBM ''might'' still continue building it for internal use
  
 
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<hr/>
'''October 16, 2013''' - John, Dani, Andrew, Martin
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'''August 1, 2017''' - no call
* Dani: '''Good progress on Java 8''' - {{bug|380190}} compiler work done - going to send something
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* Martin: {{bug|402509}} Context Menu Filtering : Paul set to 4.4 for discussion as part of UI review; Martin still interested, could help with some resources (testing, or even implementation when architectural guidance is given)
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* '''IDE Working Group''' ([[IDE Working Group Proposal]])
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** John: from PMC point of view, a good thing: sponsored contributors would be just like another group of contributors
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** Some companies prefer making code contributions but for other companies this is very impractical and might work better with a [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130603225716/leagueoflegends/images/6/66/Iffem_shut-up-and-take-my-money.jpg shut up and take my money] model.
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* Andrew: '''Krzystof Daniel for commit rights on p2'''
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** It appears to be resolved already but we hope it doesn't have to come to this in the future.
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** Recent studies show that timely responses within 1 day (even "we'll respond in a month") will dramatically increase engagement
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'''July 25, 2017''' - Alex, Lars, Dani
'''October 9, 2013''' - John, Dani, Andrew, Martin
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* project merge got go, Dani to implement it with webmaster and then send out the announcement this or next week. E-mail will also mention that existing project leads can become co-leads on Eclipse Platform
* John: '''Builds''' - looks like things are under control
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* Discussion if CVS should be removed from the SDK build, Alex +1, Lars +1, Dani +1
* John: '''Help System Security Bug''' - {{bug|418443}} only when help server is run on https, thus not an issue when run locally
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* Discussion if the remaining 2.0 compatibility layer can be removed, Dani: OK to remove but other plug-ins might still have dependencies to it, must the also updated, as well as the documentation
 
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'''October 2, 2013''' - McQ, John, Dani
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* no discussion topics
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'''July 18, 2017''' - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani
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* project merge review awaiting go from Wayne - Dani pinged again in the bug report
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* Dani will kick off planning for Photon a bit earlier since he will be in Bangalore the next 12 days. Platform UI already started.
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* M1 on August 11
 
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'''September 25, 2013''' - McQ, Andrew, Martin, John
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'''July 11, 2017''' - no meeting
* Andrew: '''Commercial Support Thread''' - Directory of consultants to effect change when needed
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** Foundation to employ developers to "do whatever is best for the Platform" : Who decides on features, and where does the funding come from ?
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** There is precedent of Foundations employing developers... but don't think that "developers for hire" model could work
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* Martin: '''ide-dev''' discussion
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'''July 4, 2017''' - no meeting
** A Platform team tries to come up with features and architecture that they think is valuable...
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** but there's not the same drive towards a product / UX that a commercial product has
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** Because of the nature how we do things, it's harder to get to a polished UX
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'''September 18, 2013''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew
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'''June 27, 2017''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Alex
* Mozilla: Orion vs CodeMirror as Editor - Speed of progressing on Editor features, Community size ?
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* '''Equinox Merge to the Eclipse TLP'''
** CodeMirror addons can't be absorbed at Orion (licenses, provenance, etc.)
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** Keep Equinox as a separate Project, to allow independent Equinox releases without Platform (and keep Bugzilla simple)
** Can we prove that the Orion editor is better ?
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** The only argument for stronger integration would be getting more committers, but there is no strong need and we have the FastTrack process in place for that
** What matters is our amount of commitment to "Development in the Cloud"
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* '''Eclipse Merge of Component (Sub)Projects into Platform'''
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** Just 4 Projects: Platform, Equinox, JDT, PDE (plus the incubators for e4 and JDT)
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** Former (Sub)Project Leads to become "Component Leads", "Technology Owners" or "Repository Owners"
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*** Repository Ownership is appealing as the structure is very clear (+1 Dani,Alex,McQ)
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** Platform Lead initially Dani, more Co-Leads could step up if they want
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*** Main work is helping component leads if they can't come to a consensus - usually less work than PMC duties
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* Dani: '''JSR 376 Ballot'''
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** Public review reconsideration ballot got approved by all except Red Hat who abstained
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** Much progress in the past weeks, consensus except RH abstained
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** Looks like the OOBE of Java9 would tolerate reflection, currently looks like on track for a September Release
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* '''Vacations''' many people will be off next week, especially in the U.S.
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** PMC call will be skipped next week
  
 
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<hr/>
'''September 11, 2013''' - McQ, John, Dani, Martin
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'''June 20, 2017''' - MQ, Dani, Lars, Alex
* John: '''RC4''' navigaton history fix ({{bug|416902}}) - review
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* Attracting new contributors discussions - code cleanup and deletion of old paths needed
* McQ: Focusing Ottawa on Orion
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** Alex: Big issue to get people working on codebase and considering many now irrelevant paths in the codebase
* Martin: '''[[E4/Scripting]]''' progress. Homepage has links onto Requirements, EclipseCon Europe talk and more
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** Dani: Cleanups should be done by the one starting them through the whole SDK
** McQ: Overlap with RAP when JavaScript is being used ?
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** Lars: Not feasible as some projects are slower pace moving and the change might require more effort than one can or is willing to spend in his free time
* John: Krzystof Daniel of Red Hat for committer / component lead
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** Alex: Great opportunity to have new people joining by doing simple tasks and grow them into full committers
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** McQ: We have to come up with list of items we would like to get cleaned and properly follow our deprecation policy even if the migration guide for Photon get really big with things we schedule for removal in the future.
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* Dani: Sub-projects merge
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** Name of the new project - McQ: Everyone refers to it as Platform so natural choice it is
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** JDT, PDE, Platform (subprojects) to become single project
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** Person responsible for some code area in the merged project - to be further dicussed
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* Dani: Dropping Xulrunner support - PMC to approve it in the bug
  
 
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<hr/>
'''September 4, 2013''' - No meeting
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'''Juni 13, 2017''' - MQ, Dani, Lars
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* Dani: Release review for 4.7 was successful
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* Dani: Rebuild for 4.7RCa required due to new EMF version and a fix for a critical bug which resulted in duplicated menu entries
  
'''August 28, 2013''' - Dani, John, Martin
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* Merge of the sub-projects
* Dani: '''Stardust adding features to SR1''' - Planning Council exception - no objections
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** Planned for M1, desired to be coordinated with the move of Equinox to Platform
* John: '''language tooling on [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide-dev/ ide-dev]''' - where to host the work ?
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** We prefer to keep the project pages and wikis so that all the information is kept
** Eclipse project/e4 proposed
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** Preferable we want to have one committer list for Eclipse platform
** Dani: '''What's the goal?''' - make it easier adding new languages, or refactor existing projects ?
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** Dani to check with foundation how the merge can be done
*** Martin interested in cross-language crossreferencing
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**** Lua tooling / C bindings, Java/JNI, Python C bindings, TCF, CORBA generated stubs/proxies, ...
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*** Easier to create tooling for JVM-based languages
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*** Common support for refactoring
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*** ...
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** AC could be involved - makes sense for AC to be involved in a working group
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*** In the end, it boils down to who steps up writing code
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* Martin: short update on scripting-dev ... making progress, code has been provided, e4 proposed as a home, no feedback yet
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'''May 30, 2017''' - Martin, Dani, Lars
'''August 21, 2013''' - Dani, John, Andrew, Martin
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* Dani: Please approve or disapprove the release review
* Dani: '''Still need the links to the torrents?''' Can we measure usage of torrents ? "Eclipse SDK" traffic is low these days anyways, would make sense for EPP only if ever
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* Dani: '''Starting the Debugger doesn't work always'''
* Martin: Some traffic these days on the [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-scripting-dev/ eclipse-scripting-dev] mailing list
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** Occurs for Lars, but isn't reproducible - one of the top 3 things to fix if steps to reproduce are found
** John: Some UI would likely be simpler with e4 now ...  
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** Lars: Equinox replaced the DS implementation in 4.7, the issue is probably related
** e4 would be a possible initial place for the project (incubator), initial basic hooks could even be put into the Platform
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** Failure is totally random: On a very slow Virtual Machine, it failed almost always (9 failures out of 10); on other machine it works most of the time; even after working fine 3 times, it may fail the 4th time; seems to occur more frequently on older machines than newer ones.
* Luna M1 went pretty well
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** Martin: try with a reverse debugger like [http://chrononsystems.com/products/chronon-time-travelling-debugger/download Chronon] ?
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*** Should help by just collecting a log; and when the failure occurs, "play back" the log to understand under what condition the race condition occurs; the a reproducible case is available, and the log can also be sent around between different developers for investigation, potentiall also to Apache Felix upstream
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* Dani: '''Equinox Launcher Issues'''
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** During M7, a change was made to ignore certain command-line arguments
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** This caused 2 regressions - {{bug|517013}} and {{bug|516349}} MacOSX restart regression
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** Java 9 will probably change the parameters again, see {{bug|516911}} :(
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** It's getting too late to make any more changes to the Launcher. Re-compiling on different hardware has already caused {{bug|517013}}, it's possible that more issues (not yet known) might be caused by the rebuild. With Java 9 probably changing again, we don't win much by rebuilding to try and align with something that's not yet released.
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*** Option A: Put options into the eclipse.ini -- today it works for both Java 8 and Java 9
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*** Option B: Add the "probably proposed" new option to the launcher, will need to rebuild the launcher again
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*** Option C: Revert the launcher to what it was before (and well tested) back to M6 - for running with Java 9, the options have to be added manually
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** Users will have to read on a webpage what needs to be done for Java 9 launching; for Eclipse SDK, a single option is needed - some add-on components
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*** Additional complexity: Different JVMs need different options (IBM, Oracle...)
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*** Martin: {{bug|517452}} Introduce a fallback mechanism to the launcher, which reads the Java ID and loads 'eclipse-javaID.ini' with a fallback to 'eclipse.ini', but does not seem reasonable for Oxygen since too late
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*** Better to have a clean story: At IBM, the entire build environment changed ... reverting gets us back to a bullet-proof launcher that was tested for 7 milestones ... will work safely with Java 8, for Java 9 people will have to read the N&N or StackOverflow to find out about the right arguments - same as in Neon
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* '''AGREEMENT to revert the Launcher to the M6 version'''
  
 
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'''August 14, 2013''' - Dani, Andrew
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'''May 23, 2017''' - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ
* Dani: no changes to release pace for Luna. For details see [[Planning_Council/August_7_2013]]
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* Dani: '''Apache Batik XXE Vulnerability'''
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** Alex: Moving to Batik 1.9 would be good, but there is so much UI breakage that it's not viable for Oxygen
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* Martin: '''Bugs discovered during RC test cycle'''
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** Surprised that some low-priority issues do get attention ({{bug|517108}}) while others get no response at all ({{bug|517013}}
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** Dani: Only interested in severe issues and regressions - send message to platform-releng-dev with severe regressions found
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** Dani: Please +1 the Gerrit for {{bug|517108}}
  
 
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'''August 7, 2013''' - Dani, Andrew, Martin, McQ
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'''May 16, 2017''' - Alex, Martin, Dani, Lars
* Dani - '''Moving to more frequent releases''' to be discussed at the PC today
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* Plan Update - updated on Wiki, main plan updated, please provide feedback until tomorrow latest:
** McQ believes that aggregating monthly releases into a train can't work given the size of the train, so the monthly release wouldn't be useful to anyone
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** Has Updates to delivered / not delivered, and Target Operating Environment
** Martin agrees that as a commercial adopter, stability (of the yearly train) is key: new features are interesting in one or two projects but not in the train
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* {{bug|509922}} Performance Tests: Header is wrong, but it really compares against 4.6.1: results are created but report is wrong
** Moving faster with the train can't be at the expense of no longer getting backports of bugfixes to those releases that I have chosen to adopt !
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** Code should have been improved through many action enablement changes and startup improvments
** McQ: No more SR releases, but only converge the development streams every 4 months ? - Backports could be made but adopters would have to build themselves.
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** Sravan will work on making a proper comparison against 4.6
* What causes most grief when adopting a new Platform version ?
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* '''Test failures:''' Some in Platform/UI fail frequently, the most frequent ones should be considered for fixing
** Notifications have proven most problematic .. on either Resource / project system or XML / EMF models: subtle change of behavior can have a big impact when notifications trigger other notifications
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** Browser tests: pick "an available" server, the M7 run was on a newly provisioned server which didn't have all the stuff for Webkit. This should be fixed now.
*** Can it be fixed with a community effort ? [Not sure, most problems are in layers on top of the platform...]
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** CVS tests fail from time to time since the CVS server isn't stable at the foundation
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** UI tests may fail if Mozilla or similar show a pop-up dialog requesting an update
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* {{bug|516114}} Tabbed Properties View Styling Change
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** Due to the code change, the Tabbed Properties View is now loaded even if it's not used; that may degrade performance
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** The issue is due to how styling is architected; an OSGi flag activates the plugin if any class is "used", the CCS engine just checks for a class without even instantiating, that already triggers the bundle activation
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** That should be discussed for change in 4.7.1 or 4.8 ... maybe use reflection to avoid this, or avoid the need for eager activation of tabbed properties ... Lars did that in the past, but it's a lot of effort
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** Activation by itself would be relatively cheap, but then the code goes through all Singleton instantiations - hard to estimate
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*** The impact is likely small compared to PDE for example, which takes 1.5 seconds out of 6 seconds startup time
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** '''AGREEMENT:''' In order to be fair to other people who worked on improving startup performance, the change should be reverted. We have a change that benefits few people, but impacts everyone here.
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*** Lars: OK to revert, but in the next cycle we should look at improving activations in general. Opening the Resource perspective should not activate PDE + JDT (today, this is likely triggered due to some decorators).
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*** McQ would love to see an "optimistic UI" which can render at least the shell even if not all menus/etc are yet filled in
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* Dani is out Thu-Sat, please jump in and help the team if something is needed
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* Alex: '''Project Structure'''
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** Platform/Resources doesn't have a lead at the moment. Would like to merge more and more into Platform/UI. It doesn't make sense keeping separate structures just for the sake of creating barriers to contributions.
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** Eventually we'll just have the Platform/UI morph into "The Platform Project" with more co-leads
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** In the end it's not about positions and authorities .. it's all about people who are good
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** Dani: Agrees; in experience, every 2nd contribution is causing some issues, but we do have good people even if they are not official leads
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** McQ: What we really need is high-level overview and authority to recognize changes that might negatively impact others..
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** Could eventually end up with JDT/PDE/SWT/Platform. Lars and McQ are not so sure any more if SWT really needs to be separate, had several overlapping contributions - 9 active SWT committers also work on Platform code. Consider moving forward with this after the Oxygen release...
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** '''AGREEMENT''' to move forward on this, with a ''Platform Leadership'' group. We need to advance to leadership of Eclipse along with advancing the code. Leadership change should also lead to growing community.
  
 
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'''July 31, 2013''' - Dani, John, Andrew, Martin
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'''May 9, 2017''' - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ
* ide-dev list : "Eclipse as an IDE" from a cross project / cross PMC point of view
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* Dani: '''JSR376 Jigsaw''': 10 said yes and 13 said no; a new spec to be provided within 30 days
** Tools + Equinox + Packages ...
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** From a technical perspective, should be possible to resolve within 30 days
* The "Uber Package..."
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** JDT team implementing a compiler; IBM implementing a JVM, that's completely separate concerns!
** Not recommendable. Better to improve Marketplace ... not all Train projects are on the Marketplace.
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** For implementing a compiler, the last spec is quite old, that is not good enough
** Dani: As per the downloads page, it looks like the standard package doesn't have marketplace client ? - Martin: might be filtered; might be worth a bug if not visible.
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** JDT team votes via Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation), Mike considered JDT team and RH team and probably others
*** filed {{bug|414305}}
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* Dani: '''M7/RC0''' - test passes upcoming; compressed scheduled due to the moved date for Devoxx
* Looking forward to discussions on ide-dev.
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** When using the RC, watch out for 2 things:
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**# Action contribution enablement fix -- look out for menu and toolbar items not properly enabled
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**# Section forms layout
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* Dani: '''httpcore 4.4.1 -&gt; 4.4.6 ECF Update and API Compatibility'''
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** Annotations got removed - no binary breakage, but breaks source compatibility
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** People will prefer newer httpcore; API breakage due to annotations is unlikely
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** Also, source breakage gives developers a chance to just recompile, so accepting the new version is better
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** Alex: Are we forcing our dependencies to not break API? - We don't have that power anyways?
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** Alex: httpclient has security issues every few months ... better consume the latest now, and we'll likely have to update again. So if breaking compatibility, better do it now
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** '''AGREEMENT''' to do the update and thus accept the source breakage.
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* Flooding in Ottawa: Restricted to a fairly small area
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* Dani: '''Release Review''', does anybody look at the full document or can it be simplified?
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** All of the information in the RV is public (eg bug statistics, # contributors, ...)
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** McQ: It's useful for consumers to see that new things are happening, that is the N&N; beyond that, the use is limited. Effort around half a day.
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** Many bloggers talk about new things anyways
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** Migration Guide and N&N will get into the RV Material; beyond that, Dani offers adding stuff that people request
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** '''AGREEMENT''' to keep it simple, and send add-on requests to Dani if they come up.
  
 
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'''July 24, 2013''' - McQ, Dani, John
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'''May 2, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, McQ
* Brief planning discussion. Kepler SR1 end-game plan released. Luna M1 is August 9th.
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* Lars: '''Regex Evaluator Plugin'''
* We will resume architecture team meetings on August 7th. John to remind team next week.
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** Basically a view where one can input a regex and text, and see if it matches
* John will be away Aug 1-16
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** Would like to add to e4 incubator, goal to eventually add into Platform/Text or similar
 
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** McQ: Where it the boundary between e4 and Platform? How do people kick off little projects .. e4 incubator?
'''July 17, 2013''' - McQ, Dani, John, Andrew
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** '''AGREEMENT''' to move code to Eclipse.org (into the incubator) and proceed from there. Might not end up in Platform, but will be good having the code at Eclipse.org.
* Brief discussion of the "code smells" thread on cross-project list
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* Dani: Endgame plan sent - Oxygen looking good, not too many bugs open
* Overall positive discussion and we hope to see good things come out of it
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* Dani: '''JSR Jigsaw Ballot'''
 
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** Asking for finalizing the Specs on JSR376 before voting Yes, since otherwise life is hard
'''June 26, 2013''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew, John
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* Andrew: '''Orion Browser API Standardization'''
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* John: '''More process around Kepler Maintenance Stream''' - 1 reviewer, similar to RC1 ?
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'''June 19, 2013''' - John, Dani, Martin
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'''Apr 25, 2017''' - Dani, Alex, Martin
* John/Dani: '''Kepler Retrospect'''
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* Dani: '''Neon.3a'''
** JDT Versioning: Bundles and features at 3.10 for Luna, Marketing version at 4.4
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** Respin done -- problem: Updating from Neon.3 to Neon.3a , the problematic bundles are not removed
** Freeze Plan: Worked fine for Platform, but others on the Train didn't quite play by the rules
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*** '''AI Alex''' tell Jeff to ask Pascal or Tom about how to disable the bundles on update
*** Dani to replace John on the Planning Council (phone meeting once per month)
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*** Martin: If this problem can't be resolved could live with it ... better not take too much risk trying to resolve this very special problem
* '''Rules of Engagement for Maintenance Releases'''
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** JDT is in the middle of a release cycle, since doing Java 8
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* {{Bug|411132}} '''Security Advisory''' regarding raw Javadoc - Eclipse help system not vulnerable, suggest improving the docs around "Help" setting to disallow opening external links
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'''June 12, 2013''' - McQ, John, Martin, Dani, Andrew
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'''Apr 18, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, McQ
* John: '''EclipseCon France Report''' - 2 day board meeting was good: strategic planning for what the Foundation should focus on
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* Dani: '''RH and Java9 Jigsaw'''
* Dani: 4.3 ramp-down looks good ... but other projects on the release train ship significant changes late ?!?
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** Very good write-up linked from the [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-architecture-council/msg03385.html AC Mailinglist] - see also [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-architecture-council/msg03389.html follow-up]
* Dani: Java 8 looking good
+
** Eclipse JDT team concerns that the Spec is not complete brought forward to Wayne
* John: Planning - e4 vs compatibility layer
+
* Dani: '''Neon.3 Respin'''
** McQ: Because we want e4 to be a complete Platform, it makes sense to look at our own editors and see what it takes to have them run on pure e4
+
** Last action was with Ed Merks to validate that the Fix from Tom Watson actually works - no update so far
** But that's on a case-by-case basis only
+
* Lars: '''[https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/glance#group-details Glance] Migration''' to e4 and/or Platform
** There's still a lot of confusion around e4
+
** e4 incubator was always intended to have very low entry barrier - can give the Glance team access quickly
 +
* Lars
 +
** JUnit 5 licensing - EPL + Apache
  
 
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<hr/>
'''May 29, 2013''' - Dani, Andrew, Martin
+
'''Apr 11, 2017''' - McQ, Lars, Alex, Dani
* Dani: '''4.3 Release Update''' - looking good, some minor doc fixes only for RC4.
+
* Dani: Update from last Planning Council call:
* Martin: '''4.3 Standard Package''' with egit and mpc - also looking good.
+
** There will be a special drop for Java 9 in July, but it has not yet been decided whether it will be a release where users automatically get the update, or a special p2 repository or Marketplace entry where the update can be done on demand.
** Minor binary diffs traced down to an "encoding" flag in the JAR format which is not significant (see {{bug|408944}})
+
** Issues with Neon.3. A respin might be necessary. For details see https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-planning-council/msg02741.html.
** Automated comparison of SDK against EPP are still possible when unzipping all Jar's and comparing the contents (actually listing contents with unzip -v is also fine)
+
* Dani: Asked Lars to review the Dark theme bug. Lars, said, he's not a user of it, but has one in his team. Dani: Ask him to review the change.
  
 
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<hr/>
'''May 22, 2013''' - Dani, Martin, John, McQ
+
'''Apr 04, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
* John: '''4.3 Update''' - still 100 bugs open with 4.3 target milestone, need a reminder
+
* Martin: {{bug|514257}} and [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg14316.html cross-project Neon.3 wiring issue]
** There's still some [[Platform_UI/Plan/4.3 | Platform/UI 4.3 Backlog]] - some keybindings, activation, about dlg; need to make some decisions what's in or what's out
+
** Problem: External libs don't deal with versions the same way we do
** Don't work on the list until the last day ... for any 2 bugs fixed, there's probably 1 introduced so need to ramp down
+
** Dani thinks that the problem is that Release Train projects don't agree on one version to use
** Release review: Docs, N&N looking good
+
** Martin saw a similar problem related to some bundles doing import-package and others doing require-bundle:
* Google Android announcement - IntelliJ is well integrated and polished, but Eclipse has more plugins ... the 2 concepts are somewhat at odds
+
*** Commons Logging is not a Singleton
** Just one in the large ecosystem - but need to watch for a trend of others moving away
+
** Dani has a call with Tom later today; hoping a respin can be done after fixing in Equinox
 +
* Dani: Heads up on upcoming Planning Council discussion re: Java 9 and Junit 5
 +
* Dani: '''PPC''' - No response on McQ's message regarding PPC, Dani will update the Plan after another week
  
 
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<hr/>
'''May 15, 2013''' - Dani, Martin, John, McQ
+
'''Mar 28, 2017''' - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani
* John: Switching focus from Orion to Eclipse Platform for the endgame - will be away first week of June
+
* Replacement for Sergey
* Mike Milinkovich did a demo on Orion in the Zurich lab and at the Eclipse Stammtisch Zurich
+
** let's wait and see how things go
 +
** next candidate would be Tom Watson once Equinox is moved back to the Eclipse top-level project
 +
* Dani: PPC strategy: drop 32-bit, provide 64-bit with Oxygen (4.7) and drop 64-bit BE with Photon (4.8)
 +
** all agree
 +
** McQ will send a note to cross-project-issues-dev
 +
* Lars will nominate Mikaël Barbero for Platform UI
 +
* Lars plans to bring a IDE search plug-in to e4 (http://ystrot.github.io/glance/)
  
 
<hr/>
 
<hr/>
'''May 8, 2013''' - Dani, Martin, John, Andrew, McQ
+
'''Mar 21, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
* Dani: {{bug|403149}} '''Removing Tycho Dependency''' - AI John comment on the bug
+
* Dani: '''Dirk Fauth''' [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-pmc/msg02891.html Requests on eclipse-pmc]
** Martin would like to see a simple Doc page somewhere that explains how to fix the versions
+
** Alex agrees with Dani
** Dani thinks that any serious build would update pom versions automatically as part of the build
+
** Where does the "0.x version before graduation" requirement come from? - Development Process, but maybe didn't apply to plugin versions
* Martin: {{bug|402509}} context menu filtering - request gentle nudge
+
** Dani thinks that forcing a 0.x version causes forced breakage once something goes API thus doesn't make much sense
* John: Will '''switch to Asterisk''' for the PMC from next week on - '''AI McQ''' update the invite
+
* Dani: '''Szymon Ptasiewicz'''
  
 
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<hr/>
'''May 1, 2013''' - John, Dani, Andrew, McQ
+
'''Mar 14, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
* John: LTS now running IBM Juno maintenance builds in LTS forge. Some small details still being worked out.
+
* Dani: '''Java 9 readiness''' - see [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev cross-project-issues-dev]
* Dani: Gerrit can be configured to deny non-fast-forward merges. We agreed to request that all Eclipse project Gerrit repositories be configured in this way. See {{bug|402791}} for details.
+
** Step 1: For testing, just download a Java 9 beta JVM, add the module -- all testing is possible from commandline
* Dani: Request for JUnit bundle to stop re-exporting Hamcrest bundle. Hamcrest was originally part of JUnit so this was done for compatibility reasons. We agreed that we will not do this because it breaks all users of JUnit bundle. See {{bug|403676}} for details.
+
*** 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"
  
 
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<hr/>
'''April 24, 2013''' - John, Dani, Martin
+
'''Mar 7, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex, Sergey, Lars
* Dani: '''Upload Freeze Plan'''
+
* Dani: '''4.6.3 Updates''' - Looking good, Equinox bugs moved out by Tom
* Dani: '''Java 8 Update'''
+
* Dani: '''4.7M7 Update''' - Infrastructure issues but testing looks OK (except Mac which is not built yet)
* John: '''Pawel stepping down as Platform/Debug Lead'''
+
* Dani: '''Java 9 / Planning Council Update''' - Postponing Oxygen was discussed but denied; late July update being considered
** Leaves Pin & Clone orphaned for next year. Working sets for expression view also not in Kepler.
+
** See the [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-planning-council/ eclipse.org-planning-council archives]
 +
* 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
  
 
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<hr/>
'''April 17, 2013''' - John, Dani, Martin
+
'''Feb 28, 2017''' - Sergey, Alex, Martin, McQ
* Martin: '''New Classic Package''' - Will commit SDK branding, and Egit Capability def
+
* Alex: '''Short update on Neon.3'''
** CSS - Should inherit proper styling from Platform (most probably OK)
+
** 2 jdt.core bugs asking for PMC approval - regressions compared to Neon.2, approved
* John: '''API Baselines''' - remind teams to set API baselines
+
** PPC rebuild is in, so looking good
* Martin: {{bug|402509}} context menu filtering - request gentle nudge
+
* Sergey will leave Eclipse work after end of March
* John: [[Platform_UI/Plan/4.3 |Triage of Platform UI issues to be addressed]]
+
* 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
  
 
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<hr/>
'''April 3, 2013''' - McQ, Dani, John, Andrew
+
'''Feb 21, 2017''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars, Sergey
* John: Kepler draft plan update ready, please take a look and provide comments
+
* Lars: {{Bug|512273}} Allow any committer to retrigger Gerrit validation, and {{Bug|512319}} allow rebase
* We discussed EclipseCon. It was a very good event for Eclipse project. On desktop community is moving forward on Eclipse 4. There was lots of good feedback, and very little grumbling. Orion was very well represented, lots of talks and demos from several companies adopting it.
+
** '''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'''
 +
** [http://eclipse.org/rcptt 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
  
 
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<hr/>
'''March 20, 2013''' - McQ, Dani, Martin, Andrew
+
'''Feb 15, 2017'''
* Dani: '''Java 8''' - jdt.core making very good progress - almost everything compiles in the editor
+
* Dani: '''pom files update''' - to be discussed in the arch call
+
* Martin: {{bug|402509}} '''Context Menus''' - no feedback, ping again
+
* Martin: {{bug|145635}} '''Pin & Clone'''
+
** Dani - the feature itself is good and makes sense, would also like it in JDT
+
** '''The UI metaphor is new and would need some testing in the Field''' - McQ would like the patch in ASAP in a way that doesn't cause more swirl to start experimenting
+
** CDT would need to adopt it, upstream changes needed
+
** Current implementation showed quite a lot of ripples and bugs
+
*** Current impl breaks existing workflows, that's the big problem
+
** John: only 1 milestone left, if it appears in M7 and breaks any adopters they have little time to react;
+
*** Can loop-in JDT and CDT, but there might be others ...
+
*** Was PTP involved in any way ? They could also be broken, they have very special requirements
+
** McQ: Do we have ownership of this work ? - If we have a clear need and a clear owner working on it we could give it a try
+
** '''AI Martin''' (1) Clarify with CDT why they didn't like the feature and what are their plans; all the rest comes after that eg PTP, Pawel, can it be done in a non-breaking way
+
* John: {{bug|402912}} '''Significant Memory Leak in M6''' fixed this week: noticable if eclipse running for a long time
+
** Workaround for M6: Turn off Workbench Autosave feature by setting it to 0
+
** ''AI Post to cross-project'' - people doing demos at Eclipsecon might want to use the workaround
+
* Martin: {{bug|397896}} '''New Classic Package''' - initial package done but unusable while the SDK branding bundle's contents is not migrated
+
** Martin will continue pushing for this to happen - fallback would be not
+
** Not much risk in judging whether it's good or not, only binary diff needed
+
* John: {{bug|380325}} '''Java 7 filesystem fragment'''
+
** McQ do we know performance implications, could we get rid of the native bundles ?
+
** Martin would like to have the fragment in all builds, to make it easier to test performance etc implications
+
* Martin: {{bug|403589}} '''eclipse.inf'''
+
** Different binary bits depending on distribution channel is bad ... Tycho removed
+
** Defect in post-processing (why does it add eclipse.inf) or defect in bundle preparation (why isn't eclipse.inf in there) ?
+
** Maybe related to pack200 conditioning - Martin thinks that eclipse.inf was used in the past as a marker to know whether pack200 conditioning has happened ... now downstream aggregator conditions and adds eclipse.inf
+
** '''AI John investigate'''
+
  
 
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<hr/>
'''March 13, 2013''' - McQ, John, Martin, Dani
+
'''Feb 8, 2017''' - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars
* Andrew: '''{{bug|397896}} final throughts on the EPP package'''
+
* Dani: '''{{bug|509412}}''' - Adopt newer JSch for Platform 4.6.3
** Move forward with [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=397896#c17 ]
+
** Alex is fully consumed with Webkit work for Oxygen
** Testing - could find someone if it's just "use during the test pass"
+
** 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
** Q: Can the EPP build be done frequently so it's available 1 week before the milestone for testing ?
+
** Dani: Cherry-pick the new JSch recipe to the Orbit Maintenance Branch ?
* Martin: '''{{bug|402509}} context menu filtering'''
+
** 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
** Would like to get some advice from Platform on the approach; some trajectory of a solution moving forward
+
* Dani: '''Update on RT PMC (Equinox) coming to Platform'''
** Not a must-have for Kepler, but would like to see where this is heading
+
** Tom Watson is in favor, reached out to Wayne for process
** '''AI McQ''' find Platform folk to discuss this
+
** Potentially move entire IP log, but IP team is currently busy with CQs for Oxygen
* John: '''Eclipse 4 API Status'''
+
* Dani: '''Finally Unblocked on Java Language Server'''
** Publishing a "usable subset" of the former provisional API as final: model, core services; consume injection
+
** Dirk from Microsoft signed the committer agreement
** Allows building a real Eclipse 4 App now on API
+
* Dani: '''Scenarios for UI Testing'''
*** Mostly clean-up, documentation; removing some bad stuff
+
** Initial Scenario from the PMC Notes can already be used; once that works, could extend to more
*** Writing an App on Kepler E4 API might actually be able to run on Juno
+
* Dani: '''Sign Up for Security Rep'''
** Some of the advanced stuff remains provisional for now, eg define injection
+
** See [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/tools-pmc/msg03927.html Wayne's message to PMCs] requesting PMC attendance
* John: '''Plan Update''' - No permission to update in the PMI
+
** John Arthorne used to be the Security Rep;
* McQ: '''CBI''' / Bad Launcher
+
** Tasks: Follow the security mailing list; currently low volume but might get higher with IoT getting up speed
** Have an idea that doing some little extra work after the CBI build might be good enough for now
+
** '''RESOLUTION: Alex agrees to sign up''' since already following security issues
** HP-UX CBI Build doesn't start out of the box (will likely stay a known issue for M6)
+
* Dani+Alex: '''libswt-gtk3 natives for PPC'''
* Martin: '''{{bug|380325}} Java7 EFS Plugin''': Build ?
+
** 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 [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.
 +
** (call had to be closed at this point)
  
 
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<hr/>
'''March 6, 2013''' - McQ, John, Martin, Andrew
+
<strike>Feb 1, 2017 - cancelled</strike>
* Martin: '''{{bug|402509}} context menu filtering'''
+
** AI Martin ask engineers document what we're doing today
+
* Martin: '''{{bug|397896}} EPP vs Classic''' - how to proceed
+
** Martin's recent findings on Marketplace
+
*** There's p2, Marketplace, Packages in the Open but they are only parts of the solution
+
*** There's commercial installers from EclipseSource (Yoxos), Genuitec, IBM
+
*** John: p2 simplified UI (eg Webtools Server Adaptors; Mylyn)
+
** What's missing ? David too booked ?
+
* John: '''CBI Builds in Kepler''' - SDK in good shape but repo and Equinox downloadpage not quite right yet, some might take until M6
+
* John: '''Delete old Platform/UI Branches''' - any PMC Policy ? No, convert branches to tags
+
* John: '''API Freeze next week''' - some (modest) new Eclipse 4 API's
+
** McQ recommends going for a "complete, but minimal subset of what people will want to do", rather than too many convenience methods
+
** John: Some API has been provisional for 3 years - can't make wholesale changes now for the fun of it
+
*** May phase in some changes by adding @noreference rather than deleting stuff
+
*** In some cases there's pressure to use interfaces rather than classes, in order to be able and leverage Java 8 constructs
+
* Orion - anybody going to JSConf ?
+
 
+
 
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<hr/>
'''February 27, 2013''' - John, Andrew, Dani
 
* Nothing noteworthy
 
  
<hr/>
+
'''Jan 24, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex
'''February 20, 2013''' - McQ, John, Dani, Martin, Andrew
+
* Dani: '''New Jetty Version''' - Alex will look at it after FOSDEM (Feb 7)
* John: '''Orion Release Review''', please give feedback
+
* 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: '''[http://jboss-reddeer.github.io/reddeer/ 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 [http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/tutorials/rcp-testing-tool-rcptt-basic-tutorial/ 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 --&gt; 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.
  
<hr/>
+
<hr>
'''February 13, 2013'''
+
'''Jan 17, 2017''' - Dani, Sergey, Alex, Lars, Martin, McQ
* {{bug|156134}} re-exporting debug dependencies
+
* 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)
<hr/>
+
*** Opening up to Platform UI would encourage more people to actually contribute to resources. Strive for shared access on components that are interrelated
'''February 6, 2013''' - John, Dani, Martin
+
** Dani: Merging into platform.ui would mean making Dani and Lars the leaders for signoff - that causes too much burden
* John: '''M5a and SR2 RC4'''
+
** Sergey: Platform/Team has actually more synergy with Platform/UI than resources
* John: Pawel and Platform / Debug work (Pin & Clone)
+
** Alex: For gcc for example, there is a notion of "maintainers" per git repo for signoffs - that's independent of leadership or commit rights
** Only adopt when it's really ready and satisfies all criteria, otherwise not into Kepler
+
*** McQ: Not sure how adding another role would simplify things ?
** Maybe pull out Debug plugins into a feature of their own ?
+
** 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
<hr/>
+
** 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 ?
'''January 30, 2013''' - McQ, John, Dani, Martin, Andrew
+
** McQ: Propose applying the recent simplification of gaining commit rights (for "known" committers)
* John: '''SR2 RC3''' looking good - want to know about any remaining issues
+
* Lars: '''Removing javax.xml'''
* Dani: '''Java 8 Update''' - Markus Keller will move from JDT UI to JDT Core, taking over JSR-308
+
** Was introduced only for very old JRE's , it is part of the JRE now
* John: '''NODE Dependency in Orion (exempt pre-req)'''
+
** 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
** Not shipping NODE ourselves, pushing to NODE package manager instead (or clone from git)
+
** Lars: With javax.annotation, that was solved with smart reexporting
** Andrew: Is it a workswith ?
+
** McQ: OK with removal when we can confirm we're not breaking things
** Martin: Is there any overlap with the Java portion ?
+
** Dani: Whoever requested removal should double-check whether the API is the same.
*** The server code is completely distinct from Java, but the same client can interact with both
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**'''AI Lars''' send a note to Tom Watson as the submitter.
 
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* Dani: '''Project Updates'''
<hr/>
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** Deadlines upcoming for CQs and APIs - see Endgame Plan, please provide feedback
'''January 24, 2013''' -
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* McQ: '''UI Testing and Jubula'''
* Martin: '''4.3 and 3.8 dual-stream''' - [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=webtools#themes_and_priorities Webtools project plan]
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** egit, mylyn, dtp have been doing both n + n-1 for a long time
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** Technically, running on both should be possible if Platform API is used (except for the changes in Theming)
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** The Eclipse Community needs to advance the latest (4.3)
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** IBM product teams have been told not to forward at all if they can't forward to 4.x - shipping on 4.2
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** John: Having '''wider ranges of tolerance''' is something we should be able to do (otherwise our plugin system is failing)
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** John: Java8 will be the first killer feature in 4.x
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* Dani: '''Java 8'''
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** Will provide feature patches as soon as it makes sense - early draft, participating in expert group
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** Want to have the compiler and editor ready when Java 8 goes GA - initial refactoring etc in SR1 - full feature set in the next release
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* John: '''CBI update'''
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** Consider switch after M5
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<hr/>
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'''January 17, 2013''' - McQ, John, Martin
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* John: '''{{bug|397896}} EPP vs Classic'''
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** Could volunteer to own the EPP package from Platform POV
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** Then Wayne would own the decision of RCP/RAP vs Classic - what's the difference, keep both or unify
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* John: '''Test Failures on I-Builds'''
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** Move away tests that have been failing for 9 months
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** Dani: Most tests are actually down to 0 failures
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* John: '''CBI / Maven Builds'''
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** Appears to be fragile at the moment - Maven .micro releases are breaking the build!
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+
<hr/>
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'''January 10, 2013''' - McQ, John, Dani, Martin
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* McQ: '''CBI''' - Switching Platform build to CBI for SR2 is not doable
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** Want to make CBI work for Juno since it's the LTS stream
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** CBI SDK builds are good at this point, it's only a couple of minor issues (shape of repos, download page, ...
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** When to switch to CBI in the Kepler Stream ? - Proposal do do it immediately
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* CBI patches waiting for Platform to pick up
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<hr/>
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'''January 3, 2013''' - McQ, Andrew, John, Dani
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* Andrew will recommend good conferences to promote Orion
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<hr/>
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'''Jan 10, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, Sergey, McQ - Special Guest: Alex Schladebeck
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* Dani: '''Platform Bits on Maven Central''' - Now available thanks to Stephan Herrmann
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* Dani: '''Board Committer Rep Elections''' opening
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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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* Dani: objenesis (Mockito / Easymock dependency) and Java9 - will wait for how upstream is planning to address issues
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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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** 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: On EGit SWTBot tests, too many libraries to install, how to run on Gerrit HIPP slaves
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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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*** 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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*** Compared to SWTBot, Jubula is 90% blackbox (code highlevel actions rather than things like calling setText())
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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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*** Dani: Would like to run a first test on CentOS first, as part of the integration tests
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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: 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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*** Getting a first test up and running ? - Maybe around 1 week, depends on what to do ?
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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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*** '''AI AlexS''' send slides
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*** '''AI Dani + Lars''' propose scenarios. Check possible owners of the initiative on Platform/UI side
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*** '''AI AlexS''' check possible PlatformUI Contributors from Jubula team to get started
  
 
= 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]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2012 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2012]]
 
* [[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 11:16, 22 August 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

August 22, 2017 - Alex, Dani, Martin

  • All: Conference System Woes - Dani had 7 minutes trouble dialing in; Alex was kicked out
  • Dani: Plan - AI Martin review
    • Target Platform reduced - removed too much? - and Subproject plans. Rest is copy-and-paste.
  • Dani: Subproject Merge - Everything approved, waiting for implementation by EMO.
  • Dani: RC2 this week - Still many Platform/UI bugs, Dani will make a pass moving out since Lars is on vacation
  • Martin: feature/bundle version issues
    • Dani: Checking versions is quite time consuming, there's no tooling solution for the workspace right now (but there are reports).
    • For branding bundles and features, rules are different than for others - Dani currently doing those, since few people have access
    • Currently we're looking good, but automation would be better than manual nagging

August 15, 2017 - Alex, Dani

  • Dani: subproject merge initiated - waiting for webmasters
  • Dani: Provided Photon (4.8) release record and plan - please provide comments
  • Alex and Dani discussed feature/bundle version issues - next builds should be better

August 8, 2017 - Alex, Martin, Dani

  • Eclipse Asterisk system is not working reliably (again). It took Dani 6 minutes until he could dial in (using the Swiss number - US number failed repeatedly). McQ can't dial in until 10 min later.
  • Dani: starting the planning record for Photon to announce participation in M1
    • Toplevel items: JUnit5, Java9. Subplans on the Wiki.
  • Dani: subproject merge - wanted to wait for M1, but should be done this week
  • Alex: ppc64be - Sravan is waiting on final decision whether it will be removed in Photon
    • Dani: PMC decision was settled, so removed from Eclipse plan - IBM might still continue building it for internal use

August 1, 2017 - no call

July 25, 2017 - Alex, Lars, Dani

  • project merge got go, Dani to implement it with webmaster and then send out the announcement this or next week. E-mail will also mention that existing project leads can become co-leads on Eclipse Platform
  • Discussion if CVS should be removed from the SDK build, Alex +1, Lars +1, Dani +1
  • Discussion if the remaining 2.0 compatibility layer can be removed, Dani: OK to remove but other plug-ins might still have dependencies to it, must the also updated, as well as the documentation

July 18, 2017 - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani

  • project merge review awaiting go from Wayne - Dani pinged again in the bug report
  • Dani will kick off planning for Photon a bit earlier since he will be in Bangalore the next 12 days. Platform UI already started.
  • M1 on August 11

July 11, 2017 - no meeting

July 4, 2017 - no meeting


June 27, 2017 - McQ, Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Equinox Merge to the Eclipse TLP
    • Keep Equinox as a separate Project, to allow independent Equinox releases without Platform (and keep Bugzilla simple)
    • The only argument for stronger integration would be getting more committers, but there is no strong need and we have the FastTrack process in place for that
  • Eclipse Merge of Component (Sub)Projects into Platform
    • Just 4 Projects: Platform, Equinox, JDT, PDE (plus the incubators for e4 and JDT)
    • Former (Sub)Project Leads to become "Component Leads", "Technology Owners" or "Repository Owners"
      • Repository Ownership is appealing as the structure is very clear (+1 Dani,Alex,McQ)
    • Platform Lead initially Dani, more Co-Leads could step up if they want
      • Main work is helping component leads if they can't come to a consensus - usually less work than PMC duties
  • Dani: JSR 376 Ballot
    • Public review reconsideration ballot got approved by all except Red Hat who abstained
    • Much progress in the past weeks, consensus except RH abstained
    • Looks like the OOBE of Java9 would tolerate reflection, currently looks like on track for a September Release
  • Vacations many people will be off next week, especially in the U.S.
    • PMC call will be skipped next week

June 20, 2017 - MQ, Dani, Lars, Alex

  • Attracting new contributors discussions - code cleanup and deletion of old paths needed
    • Alex: Big issue to get people working on codebase and considering many now irrelevant paths in the codebase
    • Dani: Cleanups should be done by the one starting them through the whole SDK
    • Lars: Not feasible as some projects are slower pace moving and the change might require more effort than one can or is willing to spend in his free time
    • Alex: Great opportunity to have new people joining by doing simple tasks and grow them into full committers
    • McQ: We have to come up with list of items we would like to get cleaned and properly follow our deprecation policy even if the migration guide for Photon get really big with things we schedule for removal in the future.
  • Dani: Sub-projects merge
    • Name of the new project - McQ: Everyone refers to it as Platform so natural choice it is
    • JDT, PDE, Platform (subprojects) to become single project
    • Person responsible for some code area in the merged project - to be further dicussed
  • Dani: Dropping Xulrunner support - PMC to approve it in the bug

Juni 13, 2017 - MQ, Dani, Lars

  • Dani: Release review for 4.7 was successful
  • Dani: Rebuild for 4.7RCa required due to new EMF version and a fix for a critical bug which resulted in duplicated menu entries
  • Merge of the sub-projects
    • Planned for M1, desired to be coordinated with the move of Equinox to Platform
    • We prefer to keep the project pages and wikis so that all the information is kept
    • Preferable we want to have one committer list for Eclipse platform
    • Dani to check with foundation how the merge can be done

May 30, 2017 - Martin, Dani, Lars

  • Dani: Please approve or disapprove the release review
  • Dani: Starting the Debugger doesn't work always
    • Occurs for Lars, but isn't reproducible - one of the top 3 things to fix if steps to reproduce are found
    • Lars: Equinox replaced the DS implementation in 4.7, the issue is probably related
    • Failure is totally random: On a very slow Virtual Machine, it failed almost always (9 failures out of 10); on other machine it works most of the time; even after working fine 3 times, it may fail the 4th time; seems to occur more frequently on older machines than newer ones.
    • Martin: try with a reverse debugger like Chronon ?
      • Should help by just collecting a log; and when the failure occurs, "play back" the log to understand under what condition the race condition occurs; the a reproducible case is available, and the log can also be sent around between different developers for investigation, potentiall also to Apache Felix upstream
  • Dani: Equinox Launcher Issues
    • During M7, a change was made to ignore certain command-line arguments
    • This caused 2 regressions - bug 517013 and bug 516349 MacOSX restart regression
    • Java 9 will probably change the parameters again, see bug 516911 :(
    • It's getting too late to make any more changes to the Launcher. Re-compiling on different hardware has already caused bug 517013, it's possible that more issues (not yet known) might be caused by the rebuild. With Java 9 probably changing again, we don't win much by rebuilding to try and align with something that's not yet released.
      • Option A: Put options into the eclipse.ini -- today it works for both Java 8 and Java 9
      • Option B: Add the "probably proposed" new option to the launcher, will need to rebuild the launcher again
      • Option C: Revert the launcher to what it was before (and well tested) back to M6 - for running with Java 9, the options have to be added manually
    • Users will have to read on a webpage what needs to be done for Java 9 launching; for Eclipse SDK, a single option is needed - some add-on components
      • Additional complexity: Different JVMs need different options (IBM, Oracle...)
      • Martin: bug 517452 Introduce a fallback mechanism to the launcher, which reads the Java ID and loads 'eclipse-javaID.ini' with a fallback to 'eclipse.ini', but does not seem reasonable for Oxygen since too late
      • Better to have a clean story: At IBM, the entire build environment changed ... reverting gets us back to a bullet-proof launcher that was tested for 7 milestones ... will work safely with Java 8, for Java 9 people will have to read the N&N or StackOverflow to find out about the right arguments - same as in Neon
  • AGREEMENT to revert the Launcher to the M6 version

May 23, 2017 - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ

  • Dani: Apache Batik XXE Vulnerability
    • Alex: Moving to Batik 1.9 would be good, but there is so much UI breakage that it's not viable for Oxygen
  • Martin: Bugs discovered during RC test cycle
    • Surprised that some low-priority issues do get attention (bug 517108) while others get no response at all (bug 517013
    • Dani: Only interested in severe issues and regressions - send message to platform-releng-dev with severe regressions found
    • Dani: Please +1 the Gerrit for bug 517108

May 16, 2017 - Alex, Martin, Dani, Lars

  • Plan Update - updated on Wiki, main plan updated, please provide feedback until tomorrow latest:
    • Has Updates to delivered / not delivered, and Target Operating Environment
  • bug 509922 Performance Tests: Header is wrong, but it really compares against 4.6.1: results are created but report is wrong
    • Code should have been improved through many action enablement changes and startup improvments
    • Sravan will work on making a proper comparison against 4.6
  • Test failures: Some in Platform/UI fail frequently, the most frequent ones should be considered for fixing
    • Browser tests: pick "an available" server, the M7 run was on a newly provisioned server which didn't have all the stuff for Webkit. This should be fixed now.
    • CVS tests fail from time to time since the CVS server isn't stable at the foundation
    • UI tests may fail if Mozilla or similar show a pop-up dialog requesting an update
  • bug 516114 Tabbed Properties View Styling Change
    • Due to the code change, the Tabbed Properties View is now loaded even if it's not used; that may degrade performance
    • The issue is due to how styling is architected; an OSGi flag activates the plugin if any class is "used", the CCS engine just checks for a class without even instantiating, that already triggers the bundle activation
    • That should be discussed for change in 4.7.1 or 4.8 ... maybe use reflection to avoid this, or avoid the need for eager activation of tabbed properties ... Lars did that in the past, but it's a lot of effort
    • Activation by itself would be relatively cheap, but then the code goes through all Singleton instantiations - hard to estimate
      • The impact is likely small compared to PDE for example, which takes 1.5 seconds out of 6 seconds startup time
    • AGREEMENT: In order to be fair to other people who worked on improving startup performance, the change should be reverted. We have a change that benefits few people, but impacts everyone here.
      • Lars: OK to revert, but in the next cycle we should look at improving activations in general. Opening the Resource perspective should not activate PDE + JDT (today, this is likely triggered due to some decorators).
      • McQ would love to see an "optimistic UI" which can render at least the shell even if not all menus/etc are yet filled in
  • Dani is out Thu-Sat, please jump in and help the team if something is needed
  • Alex: Project Structure
    • Platform/Resources doesn't have a lead at the moment. Would like to merge more and more into Platform/UI. It doesn't make sense keeping separate structures just for the sake of creating barriers to contributions.
    • Eventually we'll just have the Platform/UI morph into "The Platform Project" with more co-leads
    • In the end it's not about positions and authorities .. it's all about people who are good
    • Dani: Agrees; in experience, every 2nd contribution is causing some issues, but we do have good people even if they are not official leads
    • McQ: What we really need is high-level overview and authority to recognize changes that might negatively impact others..
    • Could eventually end up with JDT/PDE/SWT/Platform. Lars and McQ are not so sure any more if SWT really needs to be separate, had several overlapping contributions - 9 active SWT committers also work on Platform code. Consider moving forward with this after the Oxygen release...
    • AGREEMENT to move forward on this, with a Platform Leadership group. We need to advance to leadership of Eclipse along with advancing the code. Leadership change should also lead to growing community.

May 9, 2017 - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ

  • Dani: JSR376 Jigsaw: 10 said yes and 13 said no; a new spec to be provided within 30 days
    • From a technical perspective, should be possible to resolve within 30 days
    • JDT team implementing a compiler; IBM implementing a JVM, that's completely separate concerns!
    • For implementing a compiler, the last spec is quite old, that is not good enough
    • JDT team votes via Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation), Mike considered JDT team and RH team and probably others
  • Dani: M7/RC0 - test passes upcoming; compressed scheduled due to the moved date for Devoxx
    • When using the RC, watch out for 2 things:
      1. Action contribution enablement fix -- look out for menu and toolbar items not properly enabled
      2. Section forms layout
  • Dani: httpcore 4.4.1 -> 4.4.6 ECF Update and API Compatibility
    • Annotations got removed - no binary breakage, but breaks source compatibility
    • People will prefer newer httpcore; API breakage due to annotations is unlikely
    • Also, source breakage gives developers a chance to just recompile, so accepting the new version is better
    • Alex: Are we forcing our dependencies to not break API? - We don't have that power anyways?
    • Alex: httpclient has security issues every few months ... better consume the latest now, and we'll likely have to update again. So if breaking compatibility, better do it now
    • AGREEMENT to do the update and thus accept the source breakage.
  • Flooding in Ottawa: Restricted to a fairly small area
  • Dani: Release Review, does anybody look at the full document or can it be simplified?
    • All of the information in the RV is public (eg bug statistics, # contributors, ...)
    • McQ: It's useful for consumers to see that new things are happening, that is the N&N; beyond that, the use is limited. Effort around half a day.
    • Many bloggers talk about new things anyways
    • Migration Guide and N&N will get into the RV Material; beyond that, Dani offers adding stuff that people request
    • AGREEMENT to keep it simple, and send add-on requests to Dani if they come up.

May 2, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, McQ

  • Lars: Regex Evaluator Plugin
    • Basically a view where one can input a regex and text, and see if it matches
    • Would like to add to e4 incubator, goal to eventually add into Platform/Text or similar
    • McQ: Where it the boundary between e4 and Platform? How do people kick off little projects .. e4 incubator?
    • AGREEMENT to move code to Eclipse.org (into the incubator) and proceed from there. Might not end up in Platform, but will be good having the code at Eclipse.org.
  • Dani: Endgame plan sent - Oxygen looking good, not too many bugs open
  • Dani: JSR Jigsaw Ballot
    • Asking for finalizing the Specs on JSR376 before voting Yes, since otherwise life is hard

Apr 25, 2017 - Dani, Alex, Martin

  • Dani: Neon.3a
    • Respin done -- problem: Updating from Neon.3 to Neon.3a , the problematic bundles are not removed
      • AI Alex tell Jeff to ask Pascal or Tom about how to disable the bundles on update
      • Martin: If this problem can't be resolved could live with it ... better not take too much risk trying to resolve this very special problem

Apr 18, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, McQ

  • Dani: RH and Java9 Jigsaw
    • Very good write-up linked from the AC Mailinglist - see also follow-up
    • Eclipse JDT team concerns that the Spec is not complete brought forward to Wayne
  • Dani: Neon.3 Respin
    • Last action was with Ed Merks to validate that the Fix from Tom Watson actually works - no update so far
  • Lars: Glance Migration to e4 and/or Platform
    • e4 incubator was always intended to have very low entry barrier - can give the Glance team access quickly
  • Lars
    • JUnit 5 licensing - EPL + Apache

Apr 11, 2017 - McQ, Lars, Alex, Dani

  • Dani: Update from last Planning Council call:
  • Dani: Asked Lars to review the Dark theme bug. Lars, said, he's not a user of it, but has one in his team. Dani: Ask him to review the change.

Apr 04, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex

  • Martin: bug 514257 and cross-project Neon.3 wiring issue
    • Problem: External libs don't deal with versions the same way we do
    • Dani thinks that the problem is that Release Train projects don't agree on one version to use
    • Martin saw a similar problem related to some bundles doing import-package and others doing require-bundle:
      • Commons Logging is not a Singleton
    • Dani has a call with Tom later today; hoping a respin can be done after fixing in Equinox
  • Dani: Heads up on upcoming Planning Council discussion re: Java 9 and Junit 5
  • Dani: PPC - No response on McQ's message regarding PPC, Dani will update the Plan after another week

Mar 28, 2017 - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani

  • Replacement for Sergey
    • let's wait and see how things go
    • next candidate would be Tom Watson once Equinox is moved back to the Eclipse top-level project
  • Dani: PPC strategy: drop 32-bit, provide 64-bit with Oxygen (4.7) and drop 64-bit BE with Photon (4.8)
    • all agree
    • McQ will send a note to cross-project-issues-dev
  • Lars will nominate Mikaël Barbero for Platform UI
  • Lars plans to bring a IDE search plug-in to e4 (http://ystrot.github.io/glance/)

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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