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Europa Simultaneous Release
(This is the easily-community modifiable wiki page about the Europa Simultaneous Release. This page (and its siblings) should be the main developer information pages. The master page on the eclipse.org site mostly points here.)
Contents
Projects
The projects that plan to participate in the Europa Simultaneous Release are:
Europa CVS Projects
A number of utilities have been written to automate the assembly of Callisto (and now Europa) builds. These are available in their own CVS respository. You can find more information about how this is organized and individual project responsibilities for the build on this Callisto build page.
Requirements For Participation
Projects that are part of Callisto agree to abide by the following requirements.
Must Do
These are required for participation:
- The projects must work together.
- Projects must have their own functional project update site - the Europa site will reference these sites, not replace them.
- Projects must use 4-part version numbers. However we also need to define what the semantics of the 4-parts are: when do the parts get updated.
Should Do
These are strongly recommended for participating projects:
- Projects should have jar'ed plug-ins because this is good Eclipse citizenship.
- Projects should use Eclipse message bundles, not Java bundles because this is a good Eclipse citizenship.
Recommended
These are suggested to the participating projects:
Not Sure Yet
These are ideas that we (individually or collectively) have had and we (collectively) have not yet decided whether to incorporate them.
- (From Callisto) Projects must use ICU4J.
- (From Callisto) Projects must use capabilities. The problem with this requirement was the vagueness of what it meant to "use capabilities".
- (From Callisto) Projects should have a written ramp down policy.
Milestones and Release Candidates
These milestone and release candidate dates are based on the dependencies of the projects (we call these the +0, +1, and +2 dependencies). Obviously, if a +0 date slips, then it will cause the +1 and +2 dates to slip; similarly for a +1 slip causing +2 slips.