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= Meeting Minutes =
 
= Meeting Minutes =
  
'''September 5, 2017''' - McQ, Alex, Martin
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'''June 12, 2018''' - McQ, Alex, Tom, Lars
* Alex: {{bug|521639}} '''Mac Signing Issues for Oxygen.1'''
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* RC4a looks good; hidpi fix is in place
** 3 requests out of 5 failing, don't know yet why - webmasters assume hardware issues, trying to move to a different machine
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** no plans for further builds at this point
** RC4: No code changes, but changes in releng scripts to run tests on different Mac machine
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<hr/>
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'''June 05, 2018''' - McQ, Alex, Tom, Dani, Lars
'''August 29, 2017''' - McQ, Dani, Martin
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* Dani:
* All: '''Conference System Woes''' - 3 tries for McQ (race conditions?), 2 tries for Martin (silence first), 10 tries for Dani
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** Image limit for help should be increased? -> Not covered in the call
* Dani: '''Subproject Merge''' done after some hiccups, no complaints since Fri
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** Will most likely not be able to join the next call
** Subprojects are now "archived" with a comment that they got merged into the parent project
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* Alex:
** '''AI Dani''' planning to send another notification to mailing lists:
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** Support only last LTS version of Linux?
*** former PLs to become Repo Maintainers responsible for signoff and planning
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*** Agreement to drop old LTS versions for 4.9 but not to change the target environment for 4.8
*** Bugzilla remaining the same
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** Dropping big Endian -> we all agreed to drop it, MQ found the email to cross, so we can remove it
*** Some former subproject leads already stepped up as combined project co-leads (Lars, Lakshmi, Sarika)
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* Lars:
** McQ: Move forward towards the new structure, but there's also need to push for responsibility among the subcomponents (finding go-to persons...)
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** Update to EPL 2.0?
* Dani: '''StyledText improvement request on the ML''' (Pluggable selection model)
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*** change of about.html is trivial
** point to the e4 incubator for experiments, encourage innovation though might be quite hard and pervasive
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*** requires version updates of MANIFEST.MF and pom.xml
* RC3 looking good (except for build issues on the Foundation side, no I-Build since Aug.22 - Mac DMG is at risk for RC3)
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*** Script for source update look good, Lars checked manually lots of files
* Dani away next week, please watch the list for approvals towards RC4 next week
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*** Coordindate with Jay or Noopur for the JDT UI update
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*** Dani suggested to announce such work via the mailing list so that everyone is aware of the work
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** Only one N&N per release? -> Agreed to have one document per release
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** Do we get a name for Photon+1 -> Dani: Our SDK is called 4.9, splash screen will only be month year, planning counsil still discussing
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** Include Tips and Tricks in the SDK -> Not covered in the call
  
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'''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
 
  
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'''May 29, 2018''' - Alex, Tom, Dani
'''August 15, 2017''' - Alex, Dani
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* Dani:
* Dani: '''subproject merge''' initiated - waiting for webmasters
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** Uploaded IP log
* Dani: Provided Photon (4.8) release record and plan - please provide comments
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** Working on issue with IP log: looks like a CQ is missing for com.google.code.atinject.tck
* Alex and Dani discussed feature/bundle version issues - next builds should be better
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** Finalized Photon plan
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** Sent Release Review material for approval to PMC mailing list
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** RC3 looks good so far
  
<hr/>
 
  
'''August 8, 2017''' - Alex, Martin, Dani
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'''May 22, 2018''' - Alex, Tom, McQ, 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.
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* EPL 2.0
* Dani: starting the '''planning record for Photon''' to announce participation in M1
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** Still working with foundation on whether we can gradually move to 2.0
** Toplevel items: JUnit5, Java9. Subplans on the Wiki.
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* Will we be supporting updates from release to release in the new 3 month release cycle?
* Dani: '''subproject merge''' - wanted to wait for M1, but should be done this week
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** Yes, unless we explicitly indicate otherwise.
* Alex: '''ppc64be''' - Sravan is waiting on final decision whether it will be removed in Photon
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** To simplify this, we should have a "latest" update site
** Dani: PMC decision was settled, so removed from Eclipse plan - IBM ''might'' still continue building it for internal use
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** We need to make this simpler for users, but not get in the way of the EPP, OOMF, etc.
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** Alex to write this up in more detail
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** Dani reminded us that there had been a previous discussion in the planning council
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* Project leads have updated Photon plans
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** Dani will be updating the overall plan; PMC to comment on bug 529640
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* Dani also working on release review and IP log
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** PMC members to approve once it's ready
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* As previously discussed our first milestone will be called "M2"
  
<hr/>
 
'''August 1, 2017''' - no call
 
  
'''July 25, 2017''' - Alex, Lars, Dani
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'''May 15, 2018''' - Alex, Tom, McQ, 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
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* GDPR
* Discussion if CVS should be removed from the SDK build, Alex +1, Lars +1, Dani +1
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** audit did not report any issues on our project pages
* 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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* Opening development for 4.9
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** Will branch RC2 and update master with required Releng work
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** master will be open after RC3
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* EPL 2.0
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** No plans to do anything for 4.8
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** Lars will look into it
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** Ideally we gradually move to 2.0
  
'''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
 
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'''July 11, 2017''' - no meeting
 
  
'''July 4, 2017''' - no meeting
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'''May 8, 2018''' - Dani, Alex, Tom, McQ
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* GDPR
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** Eclipse Project collects no information from the users on the project websites
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** The Error Reporting tool, might be impacted
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** Also possibly bugzilla <-- Do we need to delete bugs older than some retention period?
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** Impossible to remove emails from all git repos (because of cloning)
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** We need to be sure to respond to requests from the foundation
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* Jetty
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** 9.4.10 is in latest build, and help system is working
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** they made the dependencies that were problematic optional
  
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'''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
 
  
<hr/>
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'''May 1, 2018''' - cancelled due to public holiday in most Europe
'''June 20, 2017''' - MQ, Dani, Lars, Alex
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* Attracting new contributors discussions - code cleanup and deletion of old paths needed
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** Alex: Big issue to get people working on codebase and considering many now irrelevant paths in the codebase
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** Dani: Cleanups should be done by the one starting them through the whole SDK
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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
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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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'''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
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'''April 24, 2018''' - Dani, Lars, Alex, Tom
** Planned for M1, desired to be coordinated with the move of Equinox to Platform
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* Target environments
** We prefer to keep the project pages and wikis so that all the information is kept
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** We will keep Java 8 and 10 and remove java 9 from the list
** Preferable we want to have one committer list for Eclipse platform
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** remove JVMs as soon as they run out of support from target environments  - AGREED
** Dani to check with foundation how the merge can be done
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* javax.annotation
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** Version  shipped is quite old, should we update it to newer version
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** Update to latest standalone release to be tried
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** Alex to try to drive this through
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* Notify cross project about removal of ee modules from the JVM
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** People don't follow Java 11 work so will probably be surprised when things start to fail so we better try to spread the information
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** Dani will send a link to the JEP containing detailed information
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* Contribution guidelines
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** Do not open bugs for simple changes and cleanups
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** Actual bug fixes to be split from cleanups in separate patches so the bug commit is straight on the topic
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** Dani will update the wiki
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* Cancel May 1st call - public holiday in Europe
  
'''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 [http://chrononsystems.com/products/chronon-time-travelling-debugger/download 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'''
 
  
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'''April 17, 2018''' - Dani, Alex, McQ
'''May 23, 2017''' - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ
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* On Java 11...
* Dani: '''Apache Batik XXE Vulnerability'''
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** We are actually shipping the javax annotation support
** 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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** Java 11 is working in 4.8, but isn't in 4.7.x
* Martin: '''Bugs discovered during RC test cycle'''
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*** Tom Watson is investigating why it is not working 4.7.x
** 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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'''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.
 
  
<hr/>
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'''April 10, 2018''' - Tom, Dani, Lars, Alex
'''May 9, 2017''' - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ
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* Discussed {{bug|533390}}: Eclipse does not launch with Java 11
* Dani: '''JSR376 Jigsaw''': 10 said yes and 13 said no; a new spec to be provided within 30 days
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** From a technical perspective, should be possible to resolve within 30 days
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** JDT team implementing a compiler; IBM implementing a JVM, that's completely separate concerns!
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** For implementing a compiler, the last spec is quite old, that is not good enough
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** JDT team votes via Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation), Mike considered JDT team and RH team and probably others
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* Dani: '''M7/RC0''' - test passes upcoming; compressed scheduled due to the moved date for Devoxx
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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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'''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
 
  
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'''April 3, 2018''' - Tom, Dani, Mcq, Lars
'''Apr 25, 2017''' - Dani, Alex, Martin
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* 4.7.3a update
* Dani: '''Neon.3a'''
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** Delivered RC2 on Saturday, so we could fix some badness in handling Java 10 "var" support (tl;dr: rename appeared to allow you to affect "var" as if it were a type (but would not have modified the code))
** Respin done -- problem: Updating from Neon.3 to Neon.3a , the problematic bundles are not removed
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** Currently think we're done
*** '''AI Alex''' tell Jeff to ask Pascal or Tom about how to disable the bundles on update
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* Naming milestones
*** 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
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** As previously discussed, we will contribute the most recent I-build to the release train for the 3-week "M1".
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** We will call our first milestone (at the 6-week point) M2 so that it aligns with the release train naming.
  
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'''Apr 18, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, McQ
 
* Dani: '''RH and Java9 Jigsaw'''
 
** 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]
 
** 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: '''[https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/glance#group-details 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
 
  
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'''March 27, 2018''' - Tom, Dani, Mcq, Lars, Alex
'''Apr 11, 2017''' - McQ, Lars, Alex, Dani
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* Java packages for configured Java in workspace
* Dani: Update from last Planning Council call:
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** Equinox no longer provides hard-coded information about execution environments.  In the past this information was used at runtime for describing the running execution environment within the OSGi Framework.  Other usecases outside the Framework started uses the Java profile data from Equinox.  Equinox no longer has any need for the hard-coded information so no longer provides it.
** 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.
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** JDT and PDE have come to depend on the internal resources of the framework to get hard-coded information about execution environments
** Issues with Neon.3. A respin might be necessary. For details see https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-planning-council/msg02741.html.
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** JDT and PDE need to have a common way to figure out the available packages for Java versions >= Java 9
* 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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** See [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=531642 531642] [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=532773 532773]
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* SWT clean-up
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** Lars reviewed the removal of Windows XP. Built binaries locally on Windows.
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** Found a form data issue deleted some code that was still used
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** Tom - Unit tests didn’t catch the issue. Concerning?
  
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--> Update from Lars after the call: Later testing did show that this is a bug already existing in Eclipse. 4.7 and master and not related to the patch
'''Apr 04, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
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* Martin: {{bug|514257}} and [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg14316.html cross-project Neon.3 wiring issue]
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** Problem: External libs don't deal with versions the same way we do
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** Dani thinks that the problem is that Release Train projects don't agree on one version to use
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** Martin saw a similar problem related to some bundles doing import-package and others doing require-bundle:
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*** Commons Logging is not a Singleton
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** Dani has a call with Tom later today; hoping a respin can be done after fixing in Equinox
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* Dani: Heads up on upcoming Planning Council discussion re: Java 9 and Junit 5
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* Dani: '''PPC''' - No response on McQ's message regarding PPC, Dani will update the Plan after another week
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** Lars did review and test
'''Mar 28, 2017''' - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani
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** Dani - put all the code in the branch and produce a build and ask windows community to test it
* Replacement for Sergey
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** Mcq - thinks it is a good idea
** let's wait and see how things go
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** Dani - create an official build for testing, not out of master with normal builds
** next candidate would be Tom Watson once Equinox is moved back to the Eclipse top-level project
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** Lars - what is the risk of putting in master
* Dani: PPC strategy: drop 32-bit, provide 64-bit with Oxygen (4.7) and drop 64-bit BE with Photon (4.8)
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** Dani - can do the build right away pre-CQ review approval. Allows for more quick testing.
** all agree
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** Alex, no need for a branch, can be a developer build we publish.  Alex will ask Leo to do this.
** McQ will send a note to cross-project-issues-dev
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* Jetty version
* Lars will nominate Mikaël Barbero for Platform UI
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** Jetty added non-optional dependencies on service-loader
* Lars plans to bring a IDE search plug-in to e4 (http://ystrot.github.io/glance/)
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** Dani - got reverted, but old versions still caused Gerrit build issue
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** We don’t need the service-loader for our usage of jetty
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** jetty may be making a hard requirement on an implementation of server-loader (Aries spi-fly)
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** Can we move help off jetty? Will be a major undertaking.  Should figure out what it would me to do so.  Currently no interested contributer has stepped up to do the work to figure out what this would mean.
 +
** Equinox will still need jetty for the http service implementation.  Perhaps things are more simple if this is an Equinox only dependency.  Only pull in jetty if the http service implementation is needed and then pull in all of jetty and its dependencies.
 +
** No current plans or interested contributors for providing our own service-loader implementation.
 +
** Our build should start resolving the capabilities are requirements which would catch issues like this early in the build.
 +
** Alex - can we move latest tycho to get the capability/requirements meta-data. No objections?  Alex will move forward.
  
<hr/>
 
'''Mar 21, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
 
* Dani: '''Dirk Fauth''' [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-pmc/msg02891.html 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'''
 
  
<hr/>
+
'''March 20, 2018''' - Dani, McQ, Tom, Lars, Alex
'''Mar 14, 2017''' - Dani, Martin, Alex
+
* Dani: The IBM SWT team considers the Windows XP removal too risky and in addition has no capacity to look at that big change. Fine if someone else looks at the removal. The type changes will have to wait after Photon (too risky). Lars will ask Conrad and Alex will also look at the patches.
* Dani: '''Java 9 readiness''' - see [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev cross-project-issues-dev]
+
* Databinding generification should be done early 4.9, too late for Photon.
** Step 1: For testing, just download a Java 9 beta JVM, add the module -- all testing is possible from commandline
+
* Dani: Eclipse support for Java 10 will be merged to the official branches starting Wednesday. A Marketplace entry for 4.7.3 will be made available once 4.7.3 is released. The first official release with Java 10 support is 4.7.3a scheduled for April 11.
*** 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"
+
  
<hr/>
 
'''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
 
** 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
 
  
<hr/>
+
'''March 13, 2018''' - Dani, McQ, Tom
'''Feb 28, 2017''' - Sergey, Alex, Martin, McQ
+
* Alex had troubles to join; Lars still in vacation
* Alex: '''Short update on Neon.3'''
+
* Dani: in the new release process we need to downgrade some milestones to "checkpoints" where we only deliver the bits
** 2 jdt.core bugs asking for PMC approval - regressions compared to Neon.2, approved
+
** ACTION ITEM: Dani to start the discussion with the PMC via e-mail and then inform cross-project
** 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
+
*** See https://github.com/moberhuber/eclipse.platform.rcptt-tests
+
*** And https://github.com/eclipse-testing/eclipse-platform
+
  
<hr/>
 
'''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'''
 
** [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
 
  
<hr/>
+
'''March 6, 2018''' - McQ, Tom, Alex
'''Feb 15, 2017'''
+
* Short call without any interesting topics
  
<hr/>
 
'''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 [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/tools-pmc/msg03927.html 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 [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)
 
  
<hr/>
+
'''February 27, 2018''' - Lars, Dani, McQ, Tom, Alex
<strike>Feb 1, 2017 - cancelled</strike>
+
* JDT support for new Java releases
<hr/>
+
** McQ: With current change rate and OpenJDK process we can not promise Zero day compatibility but rather release as soon as possible
 +
** Dani: effort to try convincing Oracle to tell the features a release earlier and get easier access to OpenJDK community
 +
* Dropping XP support
 +
** Dani: no objection to drop it, the question is whether to do it for Photon or delay it for next release
 +
** Mail to be posted to cross project by Dani to gather feedback
 +
** Alex: 1 week for gathering input on cross-project - '''AGREED'''
 +
** If noone speaks up with reasonable reason to keep support - preapproved by Dani, Lars and Alex
 +
** To be formally voted after the mail to cross-project
 +
* Release names
 +
** Version only, release names are irrelevant from Eclipse TLP side - '''AGREED'''
 +
* Inactive committers pruning
 +
** Lars: no access to committer emails so sending just to the mailing list
 +
** Wait 2 months for reply before action
 +
** McQ: ask foundation to send direct mails on behalf of the project, if foundation is not fine - remove committers directly
 +
** Alex: only public replies to the mailing list are accepted so people wanting to remain committers at least follow the mailing list
 +
* Tip of the day -
 +
** Lars: CQ approved, to be merged today/tomorrow
 +
** Alex: we should have it part of the build and part of the p2 repo for easy testing
 +
** Dani: unclear APIs to be removed and to be simplified so we don't end up maintaining useless parts
 +
* GTK 2 vs. 4
 +
** Alex: Gtk 4 release aiming at late 2018, it's big change in drawing so conflicts with Gtk 2 badly
 +
** Alex: Gtk 2 support to be removed in future one of the next 2 releases, whether Sep or Dec to be discussed later in the Photon release train
 +
** Alex: mail to cross project list around Photon M7 or RC when more information on both Gtk 4 release plans and SWT bugs will be known
 +
** McQ: what is our statement on supported Gtk version?
 +
** Alex: Statement should be: Once SWT switches to latest Gtk version as default, support for previous versions goes into deep maintenance mode but will kept until it starts hurting new development and support for the default version at which point to be removed.
 +
** To be discussed further.
  
'''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: '''[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>
+
'''February 20, 2018''' - Lars, Dani, McQ, Tom
'''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'''
+
  
<hr/>
+
* Dani: Update on 4.7 RC3
'''Jan 10, 2017''' - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, Sergey, McQ - Special Guest: Alex Schladebeck
+
* Lars: Can we drop Windows XP support?
* Dani: '''Platform Bits on Maven Central''' - Now available thanks to Stephan Herrmann
+
** Lars: Big contribution comes in (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=531097), dropping XP support might be a good motiviation to contribute more also to other people. Removing lots of code including the version checks will also result in a cleaner code base for maintenance and might improve performance.
* Dani: '''Board Committer Rep Elections''' opening
+
** Dani: IBM investigate if they officially drop XP
* Dani: After David Williams' move, Wayne is looking for a Planning Council Chair; Fred Gurr has taken over Simrel Releng
+
** Tom: Do we need support XP with the latest Eclipse version?
* Dani: objenesis (Mockito / Easymock dependency) and Java9 - will wait for how upstream is planning to address issues
+
--> Pending on the answer of the IBM team, will be discussed in next weeks call
* Lars: '''Equinox move to Platform''' - no updates - '''AI Dani''' talk to Tom again
+
* Tom: OSGI CQs updated and approved for OSGi Service Platform 7.0 version
* 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)
+
'''February 6, 2018''' - Lars, Dani, McQ
** Dani: On EGit SWTBot tests, too many libraries to install, how to run on Gerrit HIPP slaves
+
* Lars: Can we mark MInput and MInputPart for deletion ({{bug|509868}})?
** 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.
+
** Dani: Before approving to mark them for deletion, someone has to investigate how much work needs to be done to do it. Both have over 50 references.
*** 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
+
*** McQ agrees
*** Compared to SWTBot, Jubula is 90% blackbox (code highlevel actions rather than things like calling setText())
+
* Dani: [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ui-best-practices-working-group/msg00743.html Topic on ui-best-practices-working-group list]: Replace "..." with an ellipses Unicode character
*** UI Tests typically take longer than unittests by definition (due to setup, teardown, ...), so might not be applicable for Gerrit triggers
+
** Looks good on Mac and is actually used by Mac OS, but less good on Windows. No info regarding Linux at this time
*** Dani: Would like to run a first test on CentOS first, as part of the integration tests
+
** McQ:
*** Lars: Robustness of the tests? - SWT on Mac is problematic, but Linux and Windows should be OK.
+
*** Mac OS UI guidelines specify to use the ellipses character
*** 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''')
+
*** SWT could do the right thing depending on the platform
*** Getting a first test up and running ? - Maybe around 1 week, depends on what to do ?
+
* Lars: view menu, minimize and maximize buttons look bad to him. Would like to replace the view menu with ellipses
**** Lars: Would like something for quick access. Martin would something for "fresh download" (fresh config area + workspace) maybe combined with quick access.
+
** Dani: Would have to change all three together. View menu is always there and not indicating an overflow
*** '''AI AlexS''' send slides
+
** McQ: Windows 10 also uses a triangle, but upwards. Current view menu is used and familiar to users for at least more than 10 years.
*** '''AI Dani + Lars''' propose scenarios. Check possible owners of the initiative on Platform/UI side
+
** Lars to file a bug report and send the bug number to the PMC
*** '''AI AlexS''' check possible PlatformUI Contributors from Jubula team to get started
+
* McQ: Should discuss in one of the next meetings how JDT can handle the new release cadence for Java
 +
** Dani: We will see how it goes with Java 11 (18.3)
 +
* Dani: How will we name the milestones in our new new release scheme?
 +
** Consensus to start with M1 after each release.
 +
** Up to planning council to decide the release naming convention. Lars: Would prefer year/month
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''January 30, 2018''' - Alex, Lars, Dani, Tom
 +
* General Updates (Dani)
 +
** Shipped M5, still working some p2 issues
 +
** RC1 for Neon.3 next week, may need API changes after the freeze for junit 5 support updates
 +
** Discussion about the incubation for Java.  Ongoing thread in jdt-dev list https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jdt-dev/msg00964.html.  The incubation features will be part of the release specification which implies they need to be implemented to be compliant. Spend time putting them into a release only to pull out later if they don’t finalize.  Not clear there are tests added to the TCK.  Alex asks if this effects us for Java 10, no not for Java 10.  Java 10 only has local type reference, not huge delta of function from Java 9.  No incubation in Java 10.  But incubation may affect us for Java 11.
 +
* Info about infrastructure (Alex)
 +
** Foundation push to move to Jenkins.  Releng has moved, uncovered issues with rest API and token exchange … disabled for now for Jenkins.  Issue is being worked but only can be fixed once all is moved to Jenkins.
 +
** Platform HIPP moving to Jenkins tomorrow.  Will be some downtime, should be less than an hour or so.  May cause several issue.  Issues in non-standard jobs with multiple repos etc. For Gerrit verifications should be fine.  Let Alex know if there are issues.  Alex to send a note when the migration occurs.
 +
** p2 issue is real.  Other issues are pressing (infrastucture/build).  Todor has a bug that he should be looking at.  Not something happening in the past, but now the capabilities are being resolved. Issues happened with a hand crafted p2.inf file.  Hopefully will scope down the p2.inf files.  Alex to drive to determine if a respin is needed.
 +
** Need to monitor the p2 issue, determine how many are broken.  Cannot just break 100s of folks without serious consideration.  Why not revert?  Alex says it is not an option and we should do everything possible to fix.
 +
** Lars asks about nominating more committers, perhaps that were rejected in the past. Now the Eclipse PMC can overlook the nomination process.  Work with existing contributors showing interest and look for opportunities to sponsor them for committership.
 +
* Tip of the day (Clippy)
 +
** See [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-ui-dev/msg08006.html Tips Framework]
 +
** Tip of the Day or (Clippy) in coming contribution … looking for integration M6?
 +
** Lars thinks it is worth it.  Dani disables such things by default, and also Lars.  Alex find the function interesting.  Others are also reviewing the patch. 
 +
** Lars is moving forward with it.  If it is very easy to disable and is stable on all platforms then it should be good.
 +
** Is there a concern about a solution that requires network … it doesn’t appear to be a concern.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''January 16, 2018''' - Alex, Lars, Dani, Tom
 +
* Native builds at eclipse.org status (Lars):
 +
** Dani: swt is done for some time already
 +
** Dani: launchers after M5 is released to prevent breakage
 +
* GTK launcher changes (Alex):
 +
** Changes to not rely on X11 atoms but on dbus ready for review
 +
** Linux only as no other GTK platforms are currently built
 +
* Equinox CQs (Tom):
 +
** P2 capabilities patch from Todor and felix.scr update
 +
** Slow process risking M5
 +
** Alex: Ping Sharon asking for speedup if possible
 +
* Updates from Dani:
 +
** Photon plan update - BREE to be part of the build info
 +
** End game - Oxygen.3 and M5 - send to the list
 +
** Running tests against Java 9
 +
* Java 10 eclipse release (Dani):
 +
** Oxygen.3a or marketplace feature only - Agreement for oxygen.3a
 +
** Dani: Local Variable type inference support in a branch
 +
** Future releases - to be aligned with JVM releases if they prove to release on time
 +
* BREE updates recomendations
 +
** Dani: There are reasons to stay on older BREE
 +
** Alex: ease of getting jvm is the main concern here - if a contributor can't get jvm at that version easily we can't call it supported
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Januar 09, 2018''' - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani
 +
* Updates from Dani:
 +
** Ian Skerrett is leaving the Eclipse foundation
 +
** Dani got nominated as committer representive
 +
* Planning council update
 +
** Dani: low participation in the last calls
 +
** Dani will talk with Melanie about it
 +
** Input  required for the planning council for the API and feature freezes for the platform
 +
* API and feature freeze policy in platform
 +
*** Alex: API and feature freeze in platform should be RC1, except breaking API which should be done in milestone build
 +
*** everyone agrees to Alex suggestion-> agreed
 +
* Alex: SWT linux currently uses X-Windows specific API, which does not work on Wayland. This will be moved to a DBUS API to open file and open URL
 +
* Dani: Plan update, biggest change is for the component plan
 +
** Equinox plan has been added
 +
** Manual generated BREE list has been dropped from the plan. This list is still automatically generated for every I-Build
 +
* Launcher and natives build move from IBM to the foundation still in progress
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** ({{bug|528230}}) Build FileSystem native component on Eclipse Foundation Infra
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** ({{bug|528230}}) Build launcher on Eclipse Foundation Infra
  
 
= Archive =
 
= Archive =
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* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2017 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2017]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2016 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2016]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2016 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2016]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2015 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2015]]
 
* [[Eclipse/PMC/Minutes 2015 | Archive of Meeting Minutes from 2015]]

Revision as of 11:15, 12 June 2018

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

June 12, 2018 - McQ, Alex, Tom, Lars

  • RC4a looks good; hidpi fix is in place
    • no plans for further builds at this point

June 05, 2018 - McQ, Alex, Tom, Dani, Lars

  • Dani:
    • Image limit for help should be increased? -> Not covered in the call
    • Will most likely not be able to join the next call
  • Alex:
    • Support only last LTS version of Linux?
      • Agreement to drop old LTS versions for 4.9 but not to change the target environment for 4.8
    • Dropping big Endian -> we all agreed to drop it, MQ found the email to cross, so we can remove it
  • Lars:
    • Update to EPL 2.0?
      • change of about.html is trivial
      • requires version updates of MANIFEST.MF and pom.xml
      • Script for source update look good, Lars checked manually lots of files
      • Coordindate with Jay or Noopur for the JDT UI update
      • Dani suggested to announce such work via the mailing list so that everyone is aware of the work
    • Only one N&N per release? -> Agreed to have one document per release
    • Do we get a name for Photon+1 -> Dani: Our SDK is called 4.9, splash screen will only be month year, planning counsil still discussing
    • Include Tips and Tricks in the SDK -> Not covered in the call


May 29, 2018 - Alex, Tom, Dani

  • Dani:
    • Uploaded IP log
    • Working on issue with IP log: looks like a CQ is missing for com.google.code.atinject.tck
    • Finalized Photon plan
    • Sent Release Review material for approval to PMC mailing list
    • RC3 looks good so far


May 22, 2018 - Alex, Tom, McQ, Dani

  • EPL 2.0
    • Still working with foundation on whether we can gradually move to 2.0
  • Will we be supporting updates from release to release in the new 3 month release cycle?
    • Yes, unless we explicitly indicate otherwise.
    • To simplify this, we should have a "latest" update site
    • We need to make this simpler for users, but not get in the way of the EPP, OOMF, etc.
    • Alex to write this up in more detail
    • Dani reminded us that there had been a previous discussion in the planning council
  • Project leads have updated Photon plans
    • Dani will be updating the overall plan; PMC to comment on bug 529640
  • Dani also working on release review and IP log
    • PMC members to approve once it's ready
  • As previously discussed our first milestone will be called "M2"


May 15, 2018 - Alex, Tom, McQ, Lars, Dani

  • GDPR
    • audit did not report any issues on our project pages
  • Opening development for 4.9
    • Will branch RC2 and update master with required Releng work
    • master will be open after RC3
  • EPL 2.0
    • No plans to do anything for 4.8
    • Lars will look into it
    • Ideally we gradually move to 2.0


May 8, 2018 - Dani, Alex, Tom, McQ

  • GDPR
    • Eclipse Project collects no information from the users on the project websites
    • The Error Reporting tool, might be impacted
    • Also possibly bugzilla <-- Do we need to delete bugs older than some retention period?
    • Impossible to remove emails from all git repos (because of cloning)
    • We need to be sure to respond to requests from the foundation
  • Jetty
    • 9.4.10 is in latest build, and help system is working
    • they made the dependencies that were problematic optional


May 1, 2018 - cancelled due to public holiday in most Europe


April 24, 2018 - Dani, Lars, Alex, Tom

  • Target environments
    • We will keep Java 8 and 10 and remove java 9 from the list
    • remove JVMs as soon as they run out of support from target environments - AGREED
  • javax.annotation
    • Version shipped is quite old, should we update it to newer version
    • Update to latest standalone release to be tried
    • Alex to try to drive this through
  • Notify cross project about removal of ee modules from the JVM
    • People don't follow Java 11 work so will probably be surprised when things start to fail so we better try to spread the information
    • Dani will send a link to the JEP containing detailed information
  • Contribution guidelines
    • Do not open bugs for simple changes and cleanups
    • Actual bug fixes to be split from cleanups in separate patches so the bug commit is straight on the topic
    • Dani will update the wiki
  • Cancel May 1st call - public holiday in Europe


April 17, 2018 - Dani, Alex, McQ

  • On Java 11...
    • We are actually shipping the javax annotation support
    • Java 11 is working in 4.8, but isn't in 4.7.x
      • Tom Watson is investigating why it is not working 4.7.x


April 10, 2018 - Tom, Dani, Lars, Alex

  • Discussed bug 533390: Eclipse does not launch with Java 11


April 3, 2018 - Tom, Dani, Mcq, Lars

  • 4.7.3a update
    • Delivered RC2 on Saturday, so we could fix some badness in handling Java 10 "var" support (tl;dr: rename appeared to allow you to affect "var" as if it were a type (but would not have modified the code))
    • Currently think we're done
  • Naming milestones
    • As previously discussed, we will contribute the most recent I-build to the release train for the 3-week "M1".
    • We will call our first milestone (at the 6-week point) M2 so that it aligns with the release train naming.


March 27, 2018 - Tom, Dani, Mcq, Lars, Alex

  • Java packages for configured Java in workspace
    • Equinox no longer provides hard-coded information about execution environments. In the past this information was used at runtime for describing the running execution environment within the OSGi Framework. Other usecases outside the Framework started uses the Java profile data from Equinox. Equinox no longer has any need for the hard-coded information so no longer provides it.
    • JDT and PDE have come to depend on the internal resources of the framework to get hard-coded information about execution environments
    • JDT and PDE need to have a common way to figure out the available packages for Java versions >= Java 9
    • See 531642 532773
  • SWT clean-up
    • Lars reviewed the removal of Windows XP. Built binaries locally on Windows.
    • Found a form data issue deleted some code that was still used
    • Tom - Unit tests didn’t catch the issue. Concerning?

--> Update from Lars after the call: Later testing did show that this is a bug already existing in Eclipse. 4.7 and master and not related to the patch

    • Lars did review and test
    • Dani - put all the code in the branch and produce a build and ask windows community to test it
    • Mcq - thinks it is a good idea
    • Dani - create an official build for testing, not out of master with normal builds
    • Lars - what is the risk of putting in master
    • Dani - can do the build right away pre-CQ review approval. Allows for more quick testing.
    • Alex, no need for a branch, can be a developer build we publish. Alex will ask Leo to do this.
  • Jetty version
    • Jetty added non-optional dependencies on service-loader
    • Dani - got reverted, but old versions still caused Gerrit build issue
    • We don’t need the service-loader for our usage of jetty
    • jetty may be making a hard requirement on an implementation of server-loader (Aries spi-fly)
    • Can we move help off jetty? Will be a major undertaking. Should figure out what it would me to do so. Currently no interested contributer has stepped up to do the work to figure out what this would mean.
    • Equinox will still need jetty for the http service implementation. Perhaps things are more simple if this is an Equinox only dependency. Only pull in jetty if the http service implementation is needed and then pull in all of jetty and its dependencies.
    • No current plans or interested contributors for providing our own service-loader implementation.
    • Our build should start resolving the capabilities are requirements which would catch issues like this early in the build.
    • Alex - can we move latest tycho to get the capability/requirements meta-data. No objections? Alex will move forward.


March 20, 2018 - Dani, McQ, Tom, Lars, Alex

  • Dani: The IBM SWT team considers the Windows XP removal too risky and in addition has no capacity to look at that big change. Fine if someone else looks at the removal. The type changes will have to wait after Photon (too risky). Lars will ask Conrad and Alex will also look at the patches.
  • Databinding generification should be done early 4.9, too late for Photon.
  • Dani: Eclipse support for Java 10 will be merged to the official branches starting Wednesday. A Marketplace entry for 4.7.3 will be made available once 4.7.3 is released. The first official release with Java 10 support is 4.7.3a scheduled for April 11.


March 13, 2018 - Dani, McQ, Tom

  • Alex had troubles to join; Lars still in vacation
  • Dani: in the new release process we need to downgrade some milestones to "checkpoints" where we only deliver the bits
    • ACTION ITEM: Dani to start the discussion with the PMC via e-mail and then inform cross-project


March 6, 2018 - McQ, Tom, Alex

  • Short call without any interesting topics


February 27, 2018 - Lars, Dani, McQ, Tom, Alex

  • JDT support for new Java releases
    • McQ: With current change rate and OpenJDK process we can not promise Zero day compatibility but rather release as soon as possible
    • Dani: effort to try convincing Oracle to tell the features a release earlier and get easier access to OpenJDK community
  • Dropping XP support
    • Dani: no objection to drop it, the question is whether to do it for Photon or delay it for next release
    • Mail to be posted to cross project by Dani to gather feedback
    • Alex: 1 week for gathering input on cross-project - AGREED
    • If noone speaks up with reasonable reason to keep support - preapproved by Dani, Lars and Alex
    • To be formally voted after the mail to cross-project
  • Release names
    • Version only, release names are irrelevant from Eclipse TLP side - AGREED
  • Inactive committers pruning
    • Lars: no access to committer emails so sending just to the mailing list
    • Wait 2 months for reply before action
    • McQ: ask foundation to send direct mails on behalf of the project, if foundation is not fine - remove committers directly
    • Alex: only public replies to the mailing list are accepted so people wanting to remain committers at least follow the mailing list
  • Tip of the day -
    • Lars: CQ approved, to be merged today/tomorrow
    • Alex: we should have it part of the build and part of the p2 repo for easy testing
    • Dani: unclear APIs to be removed and to be simplified so we don't end up maintaining useless parts
  • GTK 2 vs. 4
    • Alex: Gtk 4 release aiming at late 2018, it's big change in drawing so conflicts with Gtk 2 badly
    • Alex: Gtk 2 support to be removed in future one of the next 2 releases, whether Sep or Dec to be discussed later in the Photon release train
    • Alex: mail to cross project list around Photon M7 or RC when more information on both Gtk 4 release plans and SWT bugs will be known
    • McQ: what is our statement on supported Gtk version?
    • Alex: Statement should be: Once SWT switches to latest Gtk version as default, support for previous versions goes into deep maintenance mode but will kept until it starts hurting new development and support for the default version at which point to be removed.
    • To be discussed further.


February 20, 2018 - Lars, Dani, McQ, Tom

  • Dani: Update on 4.7 RC3
  • Lars: Can we drop Windows XP support?
    • Lars: Big contribution comes in (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=531097), dropping XP support might be a good motiviation to contribute more also to other people. Removing lots of code including the version checks will also result in a cleaner code base for maintenance and might improve performance.
    • Dani: IBM investigate if they officially drop XP
    • Tom: Do we need support XP with the latest Eclipse version?

--> Pending on the answer of the IBM team, will be discussed in next weeks call

  • Tom: OSGI CQs updated and approved for OSGi Service Platform 7.0 version


February 6, 2018 - Lars, Dani, McQ

  • Lars: Can we mark MInput and MInputPart for deletion (bug 509868)?
    • Dani: Before approving to mark them for deletion, someone has to investigate how much work needs to be done to do it. Both have over 50 references.
      • McQ agrees
  • Dani: Topic on ui-best-practices-working-group list: Replace "..." with an ellipses Unicode character
    • Looks good on Mac and is actually used by Mac OS, but less good on Windows. No info regarding Linux at this time
    • McQ:
      • Mac OS UI guidelines specify to use the ellipses character
      • SWT could do the right thing depending on the platform
  • Lars: view menu, minimize and maximize buttons look bad to him. Would like to replace the view menu with ellipses
    • Dani: Would have to change all three together. View menu is always there and not indicating an overflow
    • McQ: Windows 10 also uses a triangle, but upwards. Current view menu is used and familiar to users for at least more than 10 years.
    • Lars to file a bug report and send the bug number to the PMC
  • McQ: Should discuss in one of the next meetings how JDT can handle the new release cadence for Java
    • Dani: We will see how it goes with Java 11 (18.3)
  • Dani: How will we name the milestones in our new new release scheme?
    • Consensus to start with M1 after each release.
    • Up to planning council to decide the release naming convention. Lars: Would prefer year/month


January 30, 2018 - Alex, Lars, Dani, Tom

  • General Updates (Dani)
    • Shipped M5, still working some p2 issues
    • RC1 for Neon.3 next week, may need API changes after the freeze for junit 5 support updates
    • Discussion about the incubation for Java. Ongoing thread in jdt-dev list https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jdt-dev/msg00964.html. The incubation features will be part of the release specification which implies they need to be implemented to be compliant. Spend time putting them into a release only to pull out later if they don’t finalize. Not clear there are tests added to the TCK. Alex asks if this effects us for Java 10, no not for Java 10. Java 10 only has local type reference, not huge delta of function from Java 9. No incubation in Java 10. But incubation may affect us for Java 11.
  • Info about infrastructure (Alex)
    • Foundation push to move to Jenkins. Releng has moved, uncovered issues with rest API and token exchange … disabled for now for Jenkins. Issue is being worked but only can be fixed once all is moved to Jenkins.
    • Platform HIPP moving to Jenkins tomorrow. Will be some downtime, should be less than an hour or so. May cause several issue. Issues in non-standard jobs with multiple repos etc. For Gerrit verifications should be fine. Let Alex know if there are issues. Alex to send a note when the migration occurs.
    • p2 issue is real. Other issues are pressing (infrastucture/build). Todor has a bug that he should be looking at. Not something happening in the past, but now the capabilities are being resolved. Issues happened with a hand crafted p2.inf file. Hopefully will scope down the p2.inf files. Alex to drive to determine if a respin is needed.
    • Need to monitor the p2 issue, determine how many are broken. Cannot just break 100s of folks without serious consideration. Why not revert? Alex says it is not an option and we should do everything possible to fix.
    • Lars asks about nominating more committers, perhaps that were rejected in the past. Now the Eclipse PMC can overlook the nomination process. Work with existing contributors showing interest and look for opportunities to sponsor them for committership.
  • Tip of the day (Clippy)
    • See Tips Framework
    • Tip of the Day or (Clippy) in coming contribution … looking for integration M6?
    • Lars thinks it is worth it. Dani disables such things by default, and also Lars. Alex find the function interesting. Others are also reviewing the patch.
    • Lars is moving forward with it. If it is very easy to disable and is stable on all platforms then it should be good.
    • Is there a concern about a solution that requires network … it doesn’t appear to be a concern.


January 16, 2018 - Alex, Lars, Dani, Tom

  • Native builds at eclipse.org status (Lars):
    • Dani: swt is done for some time already
    • Dani: launchers after M5 is released to prevent breakage
  • GTK launcher changes (Alex):
    • Changes to not rely on X11 atoms but on dbus ready for review
    • Linux only as no other GTK platforms are currently built
  • Equinox CQs (Tom):
    • P2 capabilities patch from Todor and felix.scr update
    • Slow process risking M5
    • Alex: Ping Sharon asking for speedup if possible
  • Updates from Dani:
    • Photon plan update - BREE to be part of the build info
    • End game - Oxygen.3 and M5 - send to the list
    • Running tests against Java 9
  • Java 10 eclipse release (Dani):
    • Oxygen.3a or marketplace feature only - Agreement for oxygen.3a
    • Dani: Local Variable type inference support in a branch
    • Future releases - to be aligned with JVM releases if they prove to release on time
  • BREE updates recomendations
    • Dani: There are reasons to stay on older BREE
    • Alex: ease of getting jvm is the main concern here - if a contributor can't get jvm at that version easily we can't call it supported


Januar 09, 2018 - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani

  • Updates from Dani:
    • Ian Skerrett is leaving the Eclipse foundation
    • Dani got nominated as committer representive
  • Planning council update
    • Dani: low participation in the last calls
    • Dani will talk with Melanie about it
    • Input required for the planning council for the API and feature freezes for the platform
  • API and feature freeze policy in platform
      • Alex: API and feature freeze in platform should be RC1, except breaking API which should be done in milestone build
      • everyone agrees to Alex suggestion-> agreed
  • Alex: SWT linux currently uses X-Windows specific API, which does not work on Wayland. This will be moved to a DBUS API to open file and open URL
  • Dani: Plan update, biggest change is for the component plan
    • Equinox plan has been added
    • Manual generated BREE list has been dropped from the plan. This list is still automatically generated for every I-Build
  • Launcher and natives build move from IBM to the foundation still in progress
    • (bug 528230) Build FileSystem native component on Eclipse Foundation Infra
    • (bug 528230) Build launcher on Eclipse Foundation Infra

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