VIATRA/DeveloperMeetingMinutes/Meeting20171102

Topics

• Current status: Bugzilla Gerrit AERI
• TODOs from last meeting
  • TODO Ábel: Add more details to CPS benchmark readme
• Updated VIATRA website
  • http://eclipse.org/viatra
  • Not the final version
• End-user documentation migration from Eclipse Wiki to asciidoc in main repository
  • Together with tutorial
  • Target: Eclipse Help for VIATRA 1.7 and possibly website as well
• 1.7 release status
  • Temporary object reduction for LS merged
• Planned 1.6.2 release
  • Xtext 2.13 compatibility
  • Regression in base index https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=526225
  • Suggested release date: 10th November 2017
• VIATRA 2.0 planning
  • Component upgrade plan: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OATSxowU5op6w0ThyhbsP38f4OQ0zBOajFN04yVaDfY/edit?usp=sharing
  • Development starts in parallel with 1.7 RC

Minutes

• CPS benchmark readme updated
• VIATRA website
  • Any feedback welcome
    • Main title: Scalable reactive model queries and transformations
    • List of partners could be extended
• Documentation
  • Target website _and_ help
  • Use similar formatting to tutorial
  • Goal: deprecate wiki.eclipse.org (with explicit links to modified contents)
• 1.7 release
  • M3 out, feature freeze
  • Issues requiring development mostly fixed
  • Some testing/documentation issues still open
  • TODO: Gaben: review optimization tickets, split/close/postpone as necessary
• 1.6.2
  • Regression: excessive logging because a mistake
  • Fix already in 1.7, backport waiting for review
• Feature request
  • Random match selection - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=526769
  • Idea: provide and incrementally maintain an ordered tree, and use that as a baseline
• VIATRA 2.0
  • Review and discussion of components to be migrated to 2.0, conclusions
    • CPP components
      • Development effort in a hard fork of the project
      • Cannot be merged back soon
      • For now remove; if necessary, can be readded later
    • Keep Graphiti and Facet model editors (remain in incubation)
    • Keep LS debugger as incubation component
    • TODO Zoli (Ábel): Check usage of EVM-JDT integration in Papyrus
  • DSE maintainer needed
  • High-level feature ideas discussed four weeks ago
    • https://wiki.eclipse.org/VIATRA/DeveloperMeetingMinutes/Meeting20171005
    • Details are not fixed yet, feedback welcome
  • Low-level issues in Bugzilla with 2.0 milestones
    • Issue list is up to discussion
    • Some bugs still not opened
    • Currently issue list seems ambitious
  • 1.7-maintenance branch is planned to be created between 13-17 November