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Development Resources/HOWTO/Review Information for Project Leads

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The purpose of this wiki page is to provide information to a Project Lead (PL) who has requested a review. When the PL emails EMO to request a review, EMO will reply with a pointer to a section of this page so that the PL has detailed information about all the steps in the review process.

About Reviews

  • Reviews happen at the request of the PMC or Project Lead, in an email to EMO.
  • Review Calls are usually scheduled for Wednesday, 8am PT - as a best compromise for people on the North American West coast, North American East coast, and Europe.
  • Frequency is limited to every other week - at the request of the Board ("not too many reviews").
  • Multiple reviews may be scheduled together in one Review Call - due to the twice a month scheduling, we need to have multiple reviews at the same time to fit in all the reviews we need to have each year.
  • Reviews are added to the Project Review table as soon as the date is confirmed so that the community knows about them well in advance.

Please note that although a review is required, a Review Call is not. We have the call only if a community member requests that the call be held. If there is no request, the EMO determines the result of the review based on the review docuware and on community feedback. This is because the purpose of the call is for the community to ask questions about the review, not for the Project Lead to reiterate the information that is already in the slides. If there are no questions from the community, there is no need for the Review Call.

An Eclipse member may request a Review Call using the Communication Channel chosen by the project -- usually the project's newsgroup. The EMO checks the Communication Channel one day before the review call date and posts a message there, either a) giving the outcome of the review, and noting that there will be no call, or b) noting that there has been a request for a call, and it will take place as listed on the schedule.

Creation Reviews

Helpful Documentation from the Eclipse Development Process

Before your Creation Review is officially scheduled (and appears here), we need three things in place at least one week before the scheduled review date:

  1. PMC approval
  2. Mentors named
  3. Slides

Also, be sure that you have read the Parallel IP Process Guidelines and understand that you must submit a Contribution Questionnaire for any code before you check it into CVS.

PMC Approval

Please forward an email showing that you have PMC approval for the review. The easiest way to do this is to request approval on your PMC mailing list and forward the response to EMO.

Mentors

If your proposal does not list your two project mentors, you need to name them before the Creation Review and include the names in the docuware. (See this page for details.)

Review Slides

Please submit your slides in an email attachment to EMO. Many people underestimate the time and effort needed to create the slides, so be sure to allow enough time for this task. The "official" due date for the slides is one week before the scheduled review date (T - one week). However, the slides need to be reviewed by the EMO before posting. If you wait until the due date to submit the first draft and the EMO requests changes, then you'll probably miss your deadline and your review will be postponed. We strongly suggest this timeline for submitting slides:

  • T - two weeks: submit first draft via email to EMO
  • T - 10 days: submit final draft after responding to any EMO requests for revision
  • T - one week (due date): EMO posts final version on website before sending review announcement email

Please note that that we need both a vendor-neutral format file (PDF) and the source format that you used to create it; we archive both versions.

Many projects overlook these items when they do their first draft:

The committer bios don't have to be long or involved, but they should describe each committer's relationship to and history with the incoming code, and/or involvement with the area or technologies covered by the proposal. This document includes some good examples of committer bios.

Graduation Reviews

Helpful Documentation from the Eclipse Development Process

Before you can consider a Graduation Review, all of the relevant CQs must be approved by the Eclipse Legal team. We cannot schedule a Review before the Legal team has completed their work. If you are waiting for CQs, please review where your CQs are, and when they are scheduled to be reviewed, in the IP team work queue.

After you have verified that all relevant CQs are approved, the following items must be completed at least one week before the scheduled review date:

  1. PMC Approval (Can occur in parallel with, prior to, and after, the IP clearance)
  2. IP Log Approval This is essential, and no release review can proceed without it!
  3. Slides

PMC Approval

Please forward an email showing that you have PMC approval for the review. The easiest way to do this is to request approval on your PMC mailing list and forward the response to EMO.

Project Plan

Your project plan must be current, and available at this URL: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=top-leve-project.sub-project. This URL must be listed in your review docuware.

IP Log Approval

Because IP Log approval is essential and can take varying amounts of time (depending on the work queue of the IP Team), projects must have an approved IP Log before their review date is confirmed. After you have submitted the IP Log to Eclipse Legal for approval, the review is added to the schedule with the notation Waiting for IP Log. After EMO is notified that the IP Log is approved, that notation is replaced with the date of the review.

Please use the automated IP Log Tool to update and and submit your IP Log. This page explains how the tool works. This section of the page explains how to submit the IP Log. The URL for using the tool for your project uses your project ID, in this format: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=project ID.

While you are waiting for IP Log approval, we suggest that you obtain PMC approval for the review and begin work on your slides.

Review Docuware

Please submit your slides in an email attachment to EMO. Many people underestimate the time and effort needed to create the slides, so be sure to allow enough time for this task. The "official" due date for the slides is one week before the scheduled review date (T - one week). However, the slides need to be reviewed by the EMO before posting. If you wait until the due date to submit the first draft and the EMO requests changes, then you'll probably miss your deadline and your review will be postponed. We strongly suggest this timeline for submitting slides:

  • T - two weeks: submit first draft via email to EMO
  • T - 10 days: submit final draft after responding to any EMO requests for revision
  • T - one week (due date): EMO posts final version on website before sending review announcement email

Please note that that we need both a vendor-neutral format file (PDF) and the source format that you used to create it; we archive both versions.

Many projects overlook these items when they do their first draft:

Release Reviews

Helpful Documentation from the Eclipse Development Process

Before you can consider a Release Review, all of the relevant CQs must be approved by the Eclipse Legal team. We cannot schedule a Review before the Legal team has completed their work. If you are waiting for CQs, please review where your CQs are, and when they are scheduled to be reviewed, in the IP team work queue.

After you have verified that all relevant CQs are approved, the following items must be completed at least one week before the scheduled review date:

  1. PMC Approval (Can occur in parallel with, prior to, and after, the IP clearance)
  2. IP Log Approval This is essential, and no release review can proceed without it!
  3. Slides

PMC Approval

Please forward an email showing that you have PMC approval for the review. The easiest way to do this is to request approval on your PMC mailing list and forward the response to EMO.

Project Plan

Your project plan must be current, and available at this URL: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=top-leve-project.sub-project. This URL must be listed in your review docuware.

IP Log Approval

Because IP Log approval is essential and can take varying amounts of time (depending on the work queue of the IP Team), projects must have an approved IP Log before their review date is confirmed. After you have submitted the IP Log to Eclipse Legal for approval, the review is added to the schedule with the notation Waiting for IP Log. After EMO is notified that the IP Log is approved, that notation is replaced with the date of the review.

Please use the automated IP Log Tool to update and and submit your IP Log. This page explains how the tool works. This section of the page explains how to submit the IP Log. The URL for using the tool for your project uses your project ID, in this format: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=project ID.

While you are waiting for IP Log approval, we suggest that you obtain PMC approval for the review and begin work on your slides.

Review Docuware

Please submit your slides in an email attachment to EMO. Many people underestimate the time and effort needed to create the slides, so be sure to allow enough time for this task. The "official" due date for the slides is one week before the scheduled review date (T - one week). However, the slides need to be reviewed by the EMO before posting. If you wait until the due date to submit the first draft and the EMO requests changes, then you'll probably miss your deadline and your review will be postponed. We strongly suggest this timeline for submitting slides:

  • T - two weeks: submit first draft via email to EMO
  • T - 10 days: submit final draft after responding to any EMO requests for revision
  • T - one week (due date): EMO posts final version on website before sending review announcement email

Please note that that we need both a vendor-neutral format file (PDF) and the source format that you used to create it; we archive both versions.

Many projects overlook these items when they do their first draft:

Move Reviews

Helpful Documentation from the Eclipse Development Process

Before you can consider a Move Review, all of the relevant CQs must be approved by the Eclipse Legal team. We cannot schedule a Review before the Legal team has completed their work. If you are waiting for CQs, please review where your CQs are, and when they are scheduled to be reviewed, in the IP team work queue.

After you have verified that all relevant CQs are approved, the following items must be completed at least one week before the scheduled review date:

  1. PMC Approval: Can occur in parallel with, prior to, and after, the IP clearance
  2. IP Log Approval
  3. Slides

PMC Approval

Please forward an email showing that you have PMC approval for the review -- from both the "old" and "new" PMCs. The easiest way to do this is to request approval on the PMC mailing lists and forward the responses to EMO.

Project Plan

Your project plan must be current, and available at this URL: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=top-leve-project.sub-project. This URL must be listed in your review docuware.

IP Log Approval

Because IP Log approval is essential and can take varying amounts of time (depending on the work queue of the IP Team), projects must have an approved IP Log before their review date is confirmed. After you have submitted the IP Log to Eclipse Legal for approval, the review is added to the schedule with the notation Waiting for IP Log. After EMO is notified that the IP Log is approved, that notation is replaced with the date of the review.

Please use the automated IP Log Tool to update and and submit your IP Log. This page explains how the tool works. This section of the page explains how to submit the IP Log. The URL for using the tool for your project uses your project ID, in this format: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=project ID.

While you are waiting for IP Log approval, we suggest that you obtain PMC approval for the review and begin work on your slides.

Review Docuware

For a Move Review, the slides describe the reasons for the move, and includes the steps you will go through to facilitate the move (aka your Move Plan). Please consider these items when writing your Move Plan:

  • List committers who will be on the "new" project. If any of these were not already on the "old" project, they will need to be elected. Committer bios in the review docuware serve as a mass election for these committers.
  • List any committers who should be removed from the "old" project.
  • Describe the project infrastructure changes that you need to support the move, considering these areas:
    • CVS
    • Web pages
    • Bugzilla products
    • Newsgroups
    • Mailing lists

Please submit your slides in an email attachment to EMO. Many people underestimate the time and effort needed to create the slides, so be sure to allow enough time for this task. The "official" due date for the slides is one week before the scheduled review date (T - one week). However, the slides need to be reviewed by the EMO before posting. If you wait until the due date to submit the first draft and the EMO requests changes, then you'll probably miss your deadline and your review will be postponed. We strongly suggest this timeline for submitting slides:

  • T - two weeks: submit first draft via email to EMO
  • T - 10 days: submit final draft after responding to any EMO requests for revision
  • T - one week (due date): EMO posts final version on website before sending review announcement email

Please note that that we need both a vendor-neutral format file (PDF) and the source format that you used to create it; we archive both versions.

Many projects overlook these items when they do their first draft:

The committer bios don't have to be long or involved, but they should describe each committer's relationship to and history with the incoming code, and/or involvement with the area or technologies covered by the proposal. This document includes some good examples of committer bios.

After a successful Move Review, you will be asked to open a Bugzilla bug, assigned to Webmaster with a cc to EMO and Sharon Corbett, describing the steps that need to be done to move the project. This is basically a reiteration of the Move Plan from your review docuware.

Termination (Archive) Reviews

Helpful Documentation from the Eclipse Development Process

Before your Termination Review is officially scheduled (and appears here), we need two things in place at least one week before the scheduled review date:

  1. PMC Approval: Can occur in parallel with, prior to, and after, the IP clearance
  2. Slides

PMC Approval

Please forward an email showing that you have PMC approval for the review. The easiest way to do this is to request approval on the PMC mailing lists and forward the responses to EMO.

Review Docuware (Slides)

For a Termination Review, the slides describe the reasons for the termination, and includes the steps you will go through to terminate and archive the project (aka your Termination/Archive Plan). Please consider these items when writing your Termination/Archive Plan:

  • List the committers who should be "de-committerized" because the project is being terminated.
  • Describe what needs to be shut down and archived as a result of the termination, considering these items:
    • CVS
    • Web pages
    • Bugzilla products
    • Newsgroups
    • Mailing lists

Please submit your slides in an email attachment to EMO. Many people underestimate the time and effort needed to create the slides, so be sure to allow enough time for this task. The "official" due date for the slides is one week before the scheduled review date (T - one week). However, the slides need to be reviewed by the EMO before posting. If you wait until the due date to submit the first draft and the EMO requests changes, then you'll probably miss your deadline and your review will be postponed. We strongly suggest this timeline for submitting slides:

  • T - two weeks: submit first draft via email to EMO
  • T - 10 days: submit final draft after responding to any EMO requests for revision
  • T - one week (due date): EMO posts final version on website before sending review announcement email

Please note that that we need both a vendor-neutral format file (PDF) and the source format that you used to create it; we archive both versions.

Many projects overlook these items when they do their first draft:

After a successful Termination Review, you will be asked to

  • open a Bugzilla bug, assigned to Webmaster with a cc to EMO and Sharon Corbett, describing the steps that need to be done to terminate the project (this is basically a reiteration of the Termination Plan from your review docuware)
  • use the Portal to remove committers from the project

Communication Channel

A review's Communication Channel is designated by the Project Lead and is used for posting feedback from the community about the review. If an Eclipse community member wants a review to be held on a conference call (the Review Call), the member posts this request on the review's Communication Channel. The EMO uses the Communication Channel to notify the community if the Review Call will be held, and to post the results of the review.

Copyright Notice

The format for the copyright notice is
Copyright current_year your_organization
Note that it is your organization, not the Eclipse Foundation or the name of the project.

EPL Notice

The format for the EPL notice is
Made available under the Eclipse Public License v1.0

Docuware Contents

Many projects overlook these items when they do their first draft:


This page is moderated by Anne Jacko and Wayne Beaton (Eclipse Foundation).

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