Papyrus IC/Architecture/MoM/2018-05-15 Architecture Committee Minutes

Attendees

• Rémi (chair)
• Ernesto (Zeligsoft)
• Keith (OneFact)
• Ansgar (CEA)
• Per (Combitech)

Next Phone call: July 3rd, 2018, 4PM

Topics

UML2 And Photon

• https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/modeling-pmc/msg04191.html
  • PIC Architecture Committee decided to help UML2 project staying on simrel. UML2 in Photon
  • Initial evaluation for relevant bugs from Eclipse UML2 Bugzilla with CEA - EclipseSource
    • Triage by interest: must-do / nice to have / no interest
    • File:Bugs UML2 - Photon list.pdf
    • 1st phase achieved (gerrit activated, Tycho based build). Initial set of Gerrit reviewed by Kenn
    • Next phase: Photon.0 release. Kenn to review all proposed contributions.

No other contributions?

Collaborative meetings

• Discontinued?
  • volunteers: Ernesto & Philip
• PM committee decide for lower priorities

Task Forces

Ansgar: Next year plan

• Roadmap for Photon (see Photon)
• Next version: 4.0.
  • API: need some major improvements
  • Copy and Paste issues (Antonio) - news?
• Currently up-to-date

Philip: DSML task force

•  ?

Philip/Ernesto: Textual / graphical modeling

• No news

Per/Rémi: Dependency management, dependencies from Papyrus

• no update on that task

Release train for Papyrus

Oxygen Plan

• Oxygen.3: released (End of March 2018)
• Oxygen.4 (not in simultaneous release train, only on official Papyrus updates): planned for end of May 2018 Oxygen.4 plan

Photon Plan - +3 binary build date

• M7: May 16th, 2018
• RC1: May 23rd, 2018
• RC2: May 30th, 2018
• RC3: June 6th, 2018
• RC4: June 13th, 2018 - to be release as Photon if OK

Additional topics

• Release engineering
  • Volunteers?
  • No proposals yet. CEA is running the releng on its own

• Release train for Photon +1 (Rémi)
  • feedback from CEA?

• Photon & Oxygen: Minor release and API breakage (Ernesto)
  • Brought up by Charles in February
  • This topic came because it could break the Papyrus-RT builds
  • Quentin & Ernesto discussed on the technical aspect
    • Issue from Junit tests => issue mostly resolved (from Photon, JUnit plugins will be released - initial problem fixed)
    • 20 plugins with major API changes
  • Proposal:
    • Papyrus community version?
    • Specific branches for specific subprojects/users
      • To be raised to product management and/or steering committee?