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This document is for '''developers''' of the June 2010 Helios [[Simultaneous Release]]. [Need link for users and consumers]
This page is for '''developers''' of the June 2010 Helios Simultaneous Release. If you are a consumer of the Release, perhaps a tester or an early adopter, you'll want [[Helios Simultaneous Release/For Users | Helios Simultaneous Release For Users]]. Note that [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/helios.php the master page on the eclipse.org site] points here.
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If you are a consumer of the Release, perhaps a tester or an early adopter, you'll want [[Helios Simultaneous Release/For Users | Helios Simultaneous Release For Users]]. Note that [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/helios.php the master page on the eclipse.org site] points here.
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This page is under development. It is expected to be complete around Mid September.
 
  
  
 
===Project Plan===
 
A roll up project plan for projects participating in the Helios simultaneous release is found here: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=helios
 
  
 
===Requirements For Participation===
 
===Requirements For Participation===
Projects that are part of Helios agree to abide by the following requirements. '''Note:''' the EMO will remove projects that do not meet the ''required'' constraints.
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Projects that are part of Helios agree to abide by the [http://www.eclipse.org/helios/planning/EclipseSimultaneousRelease.php requirements of the Eclipse yearly Simultaneous Release].
  
For a report of overall Helios status, see this [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/helios_status.php report].  '''Note:''' this report is bugzilla intensive, so please use sparingly.
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[http://eclipse.org/helios/planning/SimultaneousReleaseGrid.php Compliance Reports] show progress on meeting the requirements and their final achievement.
  
==== Must Do ====
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===Milestones and Release Candidates===
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The Release is always on the fourth Wednesday of June. The milestone dates are at roughly 6 week intervals. Any end-of-cycle release-candidate (RC) dates are typically one week apart. Each project has their deliveries due at times offset from the end-date, so that the project dependencies can come together in a reasonable orderThese delivery times are based on the dependencies between projects. They are labeled +0, +1, +2, and +3, with +0 coming first (the Platform) and +3 coming last (EPP). Projects themselves decide if they are +0, +1, +2, or +3. The actual time-offset represented by these intervals change over the course of the year of development, being several days at first, but then only one day near the end of the release. The following calendar is the official schedule of the overall Helios Release. Projects are free to have their own schedules as long as they meet the Helios deliverables.
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Category
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Item
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Description
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Target Milestone
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Verification Method
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Master Bug
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| rowspan="6" | Participation
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| rowspan="2" | Intent
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| Projects must have stated and demonstrated their intent to join Helios by the M4+0 date. Projects do so by adding themselves to bug [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251715 251715] and asking to have their project-specific bugs created as clones of each of those referenced in this table.
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251715 251715]
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| Projects must have an project plan in [http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Project_Plan XML format].
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252790 252790]
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| Communicate
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| At least one person from each project must subscribe to cross-project bug inbox, i.e. edit Bugzilla prefs to watch "cross-project.inbox@eclipse.org". Build team members (or their designated alternates) from each project will provide communication channels: phone, mail, IM, IRC and will be available during the milestone integration periods.
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252789 252789]
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| Attendance
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| Project representatives must attend the planning meetings and conference calls - you have to be involved to be involved.
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252791 252791]
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| Ramp Down Policy
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| Projects must have a written ramp down policy by M6+0, linked in the table above pending inclusion of ramp down element in the XML project plan. (One of the issues identified with this guideline is that its not so much the ramp down policy of how many votes are needed for each bug fix that we need to be consistent on, but rather the meaning of each of the milestones and release candidates. See [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/freeze_plan_3.4.php Platform 3.4 Endgame plan] as a guideline. See also [[Helios/Final Daze|Helios Final Daze]].)
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| align="center" | M5
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| align="center" | Script
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252792 252792]
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| IP
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| Projects must have their IP approved (a normal Eclipse requirement) and will follow the Eclipse Legal deadlines to do so. See also {{bug|220977}}.
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| align="center" | CQs submitted by M5, completed by RC3
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| align="center" | Manual (Legal)
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252793 252793]
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| rowspan="2" | Development
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| APIs
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| Projects should leverage only published APIs of dependencies.  As a Release Review requirement, all deviations must be documented. Additionally, rectification for the issues should be listed as part of a migration plan, with bugs listed where APIs need to be provided by dependent projects'''Perhaps a '99 44/100% Pure APIs' indicator for projects with no improper usage can be used to advertise the 'cleanest' projects?''' ;)
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| align="center" | M6
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| align="center" | [http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-api-tools/ PDE API Tools]
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252794 252794]
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| Message Bundles
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| Projects must use Eclipse message bundles unless there are technical reasons not to. (see [[Message Bundle Conversion Tool]] and [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/documents/3.1/message_bundles.html])
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252795 252795]
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| rowspan="5" | Bundles
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| Version Numbering
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| Projects must use 4-part [[Version Numbering|version numbers.]]
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| align="center" | M5
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| align="center" | Manual (script?)
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252796 252796]
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| Leverage OSGi
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| All plug-ins (bundles) must use the true bundle form. That is, provide a manifest.mf file, and not rely on the plugin.xml file being 'translated' into a manifest.mf file at initial startup. See [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130598 bug 130598]. With that, empty plugin.xml files in the presence of a manifest.mf file should not be included in a bundle.
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| align="center" | M5
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| align="center" | Manual (script?)
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252797 252797]
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| Execution Environment
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| All plug-ins must correctly list their required JVM versions in the manifest.mf. See the wiki page about selecting the correct JVM [http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/EMF_2.3_JVM_Requirements#Runtime_.2F_Compilation_Compatibility].
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| align="center" | M5
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| align="center" | Manual (script?)
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252798 252798]
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| Signing
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| Projects must use [[Modeling_Project_Releng/Building/Signing_And_Packing|signed plugins]] using the Eclipse certificate. Exceptions must be authorized by the planning council for technical reasons.
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Script
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252799 252799]
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| Use Jars
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| Projects must use jar'ed plug-ins (with unpack=false) unless authorized by the planning council for technical reasons. Nested jars should be avoided if possible since it creates problems for projects that has dependencies to such plug-ins. The OSGi runtime is fine with it but the compiler is not able to handle classpaths that contain nested jars. In case only one nested jar exists, it is often better to expand the contents of that jar into the root folder (i.e. unnest the jar). If a plug-in contains large files that are frequently used (opened and closed), a jar'ed plug-in might degrade performance significantly since the file must be decompressed each time it is opened.
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual (script?)
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252800 252800]
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| rowspan="4" | Releng
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| Builds
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| Projects must have build process maturity: scripted, repeatable, and executable by others.
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252801 252801]
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| Orbit
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| Any new third-party plug-ins that are common between projects must be consumed via [http://www.eclipse.org/orbit/ Orbit]; the final Helios release will not have duplicate third-party libraries (note that this only applies to identical versions of the libraries; thus if project A requires foo.jar 1.6 and project B uses foo.jar 1.7, that's ok).
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Manual &amp; Script
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252803 252803]
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| Optimization
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| Projects must [[Update_Site_Optimization|optimize]] their own update site using [[Pack200|pack200]] to reduce bandwidth utilization and provide a better update experience for users. With the introduction of p2, project update sites must generate metadata (artifact and content repository info).
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | Script
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252804 252804]
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| New &amp; Noteworthy
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| Must have [[Architecture Council/New and Noteworthy|New &amp; Noteworthy]] for each milestone. Must be something readable and usable not just a static list of all the bugs, e.g. [http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/whatsnew3.4/eclipse-news.html platform]. Corollary: individual new &amp; noteworthy should be linked in to the collective New & Noteworthy.
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| align="center" | RC
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252805 252805]
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| rowspan="5" | Deployment
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| Work Together
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| This means that users can load any subset of the Helios projects into Eclipse and each of the loaded projects will pass all the same tests as if it had been loaded independently. If such a problem is identified, the affected projects must fix the problem.
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| align="center" | RC
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252806 252806]
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| Capabilities
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| Each project will provide basic capability/activity definitions to allow for their UI contributions to be hidden.  These must be provided in a separate plugin/feature to facilitate inclusion/exclusion by consumers in product development.
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| align="center" | M6
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| align="center" | [[Helios_Capabilities|Manual]]
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252807 252807]
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| rowspan="2" |  Localization
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| The project participates in Babel, meaning it is registered and available for string translation, etc.
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| align="center" | M6
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| align="center" | Script
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252808 252808]
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| Must use [[ICU4J | ICU4J]].
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| align="center" | M5
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252809 252809]
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| Branding
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| Each major project (as determined by participating PMCs) should have an About dialog icon with [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198941 descriptive text] (e.g. provider name = "Eclipse Modeling Project" and not simply Eclipse.org) and contribute to the welcome page.
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| align="center" | RC
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252813 252813]
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==== Should Do ====
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Note that projects choose their own +n category based on major or primary dependencies. There are many cases where a project might have to deliver pieces of their code a little earlier, if some project depends on it, or a little later if they have a stray dependency. These sorts of deviations are left to the projects to work out, pair-wise, among themselves. Feel free to bring up complicated cases for discussion.  
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|+ '''Helios Release "Should Do" Items'''
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Given all these constraints, the exact dates for any particular year are pretty predictable. The following table summarizes the most significant Helios dates, but see the subsequent calendar for the important details. That is, your stuff is due earlier than these table dates! Projects need to deliver a week or two before these "end dates", depending on their chosen, committed offset category (+0, +1, etc).
! style="background:#efefef;" | Item
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Description
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Note added 6/2/2010: see [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg04257.html message to cross project list] for clarification of exact final week process ... and remember to clarify Indigo's plan similarly.  
! style="background:#efefef;" | Target Milestone
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Verification Method
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! style="background:#efefef;" | Master Bug
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| Usability
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| Should follow the [[User Interface Guidelines]]. The [[UI Checklist]] is a good place to start.  Also, should participate in a [[User Interface Best Practices Working Group]] [[UIBPWG UI Walkthrough | UI walkthrough]].
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| align="center" | M5
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252810]
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| Accessibility
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| Should design and test for accessibility.
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| align="center" | M4
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| align="center" | [http://www.eclipse.org/actf/ ACTF]
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252811]
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| Performance
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| Projects should devote at least one milestone to performance and scalability improvements.
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| align="center" | M7
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| align="center" | [http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.test.performance/doc/Performance%20Tests%20HowTo.html?view=co]
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252812]
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| rowspan="3" | Localization
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| The project should use the [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=217339 Babel Pseudo Translation Test] to verify their translatablity.
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| align="center" | M6
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252814]
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| Should freeze the UI sufficiently early to allow the Babel project time to translate strings.
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| align="center" | M6
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252815]
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| Should design and test for enabling all languages including bidi, unicode characters, etc.
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| align="center" | M7
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| align="center" | Manual
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| align="center" | [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252816]
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===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.  Note that the +0, +1, +2, and +3 dates are roughly equivalent to stable nightly builds in a traditional Eclipse project - each of these partial milestone builds will incorporate more and more of the associated project milestones. The "Release" date is the official M/RC date.
 
  
Note: in the following table, '''''RC5''''' on the 'Helios' line does not mean this final build is a release ''''candidate'''' ... it is still to be the ''''final build'''' for this Release ... but 'RC5' is the suggested "target" to have some consistent terminology in Bugzilla, and similar things, to be able to mark things that are different in the final release build than in the RC4 build. [The full word, "Helios" doesn't make a very good bugzilla milestone target, since it's a little too inclusive, and "R" (for "Release") is too short. TODO: next year consider "GA" for this final target?]  
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M1  Friday, August 21, 2009
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M2  Friday, October 2
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M3  Friday, November 13
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M4  Friday, December 18
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M5  Friday, February 5, 2010
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  M6  Friday, March 19
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EclipseCon! March 22
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M7  Friday, May 7
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RC1 Friday, May 21
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RC2 Friday, May 28
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RC3 Friday, June 4
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RC4 Friday, June 11
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Release Wednesday, June 23
  
'''Hopefully''' there will '''not by ''ANY'' differences''' between RC4, and RC5 ... but, some projects may find they have to make doc additions, readme files, etc., so ... this just provides a way that such changes can be consistently marked, tracked, etc., to better keep everyone informed about what might be different between RC4 and the RC5 (the final released code). [Note: it's probably obvious, but this does not mean "RC5" should be part of the final zip file names or anything. those can still be what ever "final" name they would always have.]
 
  
 
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[http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/gchs7nm4nvpm837469ddj9tjlk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics ICal],[http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/gchs7nm4nvpm837469ddj9tjlk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic ATOM News Feed],[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=gchs7nm4nvpm837469ddj9tjlk%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York HTML]
 
[http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/gchs7nm4nvpm837469ddj9tjlk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics ICal],[http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/gchs7nm4nvpm837469ddj9tjlk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic ATOM News Feed],[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=gchs7nm4nvpm837469ddj9tjlk%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York HTML]
  
===Communication===
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===Communication Channels===
  
 
====Cross-Project Milestone & RC Status Reporting====
 
====Cross-Project Milestone & RC Status Reporting====
<del>
 
As with Ganymede, reporting on status will be done using a wiki table.
 
</del>
 
  
We have decided that instead of affirmative signoffs, projects should post exceptions to the cross-project dev mailing list.
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Only negative status needs to be reported. It is essential for many aspect of the simultaneous release that communication be prompt and clear, on many topics. One of the most important ones, is if someone is not meeting some date or delivery. Put another way, we assume everyone is on target and has delivered their stuff unless a note is sent to cross-project list that you are delayed. Its better to be up front about it, so everyone knows what to expect, rather than to hope things turn out ok at the very last minute, since if you "miss" without saying anything you are more likely to impact other people, and miss your chance to be part of the release.
 
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====Conference Calls====
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The [[Planning Council]] is the body responsible for coordinating the Helios release train.  Thus, its [[Planning_Council#Call_and_Meeting_Schedule|conference calls]] are the Helios planning and coordination calls.
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====Mailing Lists and Newsgroups====
 
====Mailing Lists and Newsgroups====
  
Eclipse projects have three communication channels: a mailing list for developers, a newsgroup for users, and Bugzilla. Helios, although not a "project" per se, will use the same structure:
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Eclipse projects have three communication channels: a mailing list for developers, a newsgroup for users, and Bugzilla. While Helios is not a "project" per se, it will use the same structure:
* [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev cross-projects-issues-dev] - mailing list for developers and releng (see  [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/threads.html archives])
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=====Developer mailing list=====
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* [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev cross-projects-issues-dev] - mailing list for developers and releng (see  [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/threads.html archives]). This is the list to use to discuss build issues, announce changes in plans, slippage in deliverables, etc.
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=====Users news group=====
 
* [http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.simultaneous-release eclipse.simultaneous-release] - newsgroup for users (see [http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.simultaneous-release/maillist.html archives])
 
* [http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.simultaneous-release eclipse.simultaneous-release] - newsgroup for users (see [http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.simultaneous-release/maillist.html archives])
  
The old [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse.org-planning-council eclipse.org-planning-council ] mailing list will be used for non-Helios Planning Council items.
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=====Bugzilla=====
  
=== Bugs & Feature Requests ===
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If there is any doubt about where a bug belongs, it can always start in the "Cross-Project" component. (Under Eclipse Foundation > Community). If it turns out to be a single-project's responsibility, it can be moved to that project. If it is a true cross-project bug, where several projects need to act, then it can stay in the cross-project component.
  
 
* [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Eclipse+Foundation&product=Community&component=Cross-Project&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= Search] in Eclipse Foundation > Community > Cross-Project
 
* [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Eclipse+Foundation&product=Community&component=Cross-Project&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= Search] in Eclipse Foundation > Community > Cross-Project
 
* Open a new [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?assigned_to=cross-project.inbox%40eclipse.org&product=Community&component=Cross-Project Cross-Project] bug
 
* Open a new [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?assigned_to=cross-project.inbox%40eclipse.org&product=Community&component=Cross-Project Cross-Project] bug
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=====The Planning Council Mailing List=====
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Because there has been confusion in the past, we'll be explicit here that the  [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse.org-planning-council planning council mailing list (eclipse.org-planning-council) ] is for Planning Council business, not the Helios Release activities per se. While they sometimes overlap, there is no need to cross post. While anyone can request a subscription to the planning council list (for openness and transparency) the expectation is that only Planning Council members post to it.
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=====Conference Calls=====
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The [[Planning Council]]  has regularly scheduled calls for Planning Council business. See [[Planning_Council#Call_and_Meeting_Schedule|conference calls]].
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But there are no planned calls for the release, per se, or for larger audiences, but they can be arranged if required or desired (for example, if needed for build coordination).
  
 
===Helios Builds and P2 repository ===
 
===Helios Builds and P2 repository ===
  
A number of utilities have been written to automate the assembly of Callisto '06, Europa '07, Ganymede '08 and now Helios '09 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 [[Helios/Build | Helios Build]] page (with old information on the [[Ganymede/Build | Ganymede Build]]  and [[Europa/Build | Europa Build]] pages).
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==== Builds (Aggregation) ====
  
And with Helios we are using the [[Buckminster Galileo Builder|Buckminster Helios Builder]].
+
This section, about assembling the repositories, is subject to change, as improvements in the process are made.
 +
 
 +
A number of utilities have been written to automate the assembly of Callisto '06, Europa '07, Ganymede '08, Galileo '09, and now Helios '10 builds. These are available in their own CVS repository. You can find more information about the history and organization by looking at some of the old, previous information on the [[Galileo/Build | Galileo Build]], [[Ganymede/Build | Ganymede Build]] or [[Europa/Build | Europa Build]] pages).
 +
 
 +
With Helios we are using the [[Buckminster Galileo Builder|Buckminster Galileo/Helios Builder]] (with some discussion of incorporating the [[Buckminster_Aggregator_User_Guide|Buckminster Aggregator]]).  
  
 
The [[Helios/Contributing_to_Helios_Build | Contributing to Helios Build]] page is where you go to learn how to add your project to the Helios build.
 
The [[Helios/Contributing_to_Helios_Build | Contributing to Helios Build]] page is where you go to learn how to add your project to the Helios build.
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  http://download.eclipse.org/releases/staging
 
  http://download.eclipse.org/releases/staging
  
===Coordinated Service Releases ===
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===Service Releases ===
 +
 
 +
Coordinated Service Releases are (always) scheduled for the fourth Friday of September, and the fourth Friday of February. Individual Projects may have their own, of course, at any time, if they need to, but all participants in the Yearly Release, are expected to participate in the Coordinated Service Releases. What bugs are fixed, if any, is up to each Project to decide, but each Project must continue to "fit in", build, install, avoid conflicts, etc.
 +
 
 +
[Note: the following Service Release dates have not yet been added to the above calender, but will be soon.]
  
 
==== SR1 ====
 
==== SR1 ====
GA: 9/25/09 (last Friday of September)
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GA: 9/24/2010 (last Friday of September)
  
 
In the SR1 rampdown, as shown in the following table, there will be 4 RCs, each spanning one week, with projects staging themselves into the build just one day apart.  
 
In the SR1 rampdown, as shown in the following table, there will be 4 RCs, each spanning one week, with projects staging themselves into the build just one day apart.  
  
Projects may elect not to participate in a particular RC, but have an obligation to fix any build problems that is related to their code or p2 repository.  
+
Projects may elect not to participate in a particular RC, but have an obligation to fix any build problems that are related to their code or p2 repository.  
  
 
RC1 will be in the middle of August, several weeks earlier than previous years, just to make sure we can still  build, etc. Subsequent RCs dates are similar to [[Ganymede#Coordinated_Service_Releases| previous years]], except a "quiet" final week is also planned. (It is normally pretty quiet anyway ... this just formalizes it).  
 
RC1 will be in the middle of August, several weeks earlier than previous years, just to make sure we can still  build, etc. Subsequent RCs dates are similar to [[Ganymede#Coordinated_Service_Releases| previous years]], except a "quiet" final week is also planned. (It is normally pretty quiet anyway ... this just formalizes it).  
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The Final week before GA will not have any further builds or contributions, but instead be reserved for final adopter testing and preparation and only emergency fixes for very serious regressions will be considered.
 
The Final week before GA will not have any further builds or contributions, but instead be reserved for final adopter testing and preparation and only emergency fixes for very serious regressions will be considered.
  
The 'promote' day (9/24) will be the day projects put final zips in their final spot (without displaying them) so they can propagate through the mirroring system. Similar for the p2 repository -- it will be replaced on 9/24 with the new content so it can start mirroring. Note: there is no plan to retain multiple versions in the common discovery repository (unless someone volunteers to do what's required to make that happen). At noon on 9/25 projects can make their final maintenance releases visible.  
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The 'promote' day (9/23) will be the day projects put final zips in their final spot (without displaying them) so they can propagate through the mirroring system. Similar for the p2 repository -- it will be replaced on 9/23 with the new content so it can start mirroring. Note: there is no plan to retain multiple versions in the common discovery repository (unless someone volunteers to do what's required to make that happen). At noon on 9/24 projects can make their final maintenance releases visible.  
  
 
{| border="1" align="center" width="600"
 
{| border="1" align="center" width="600"
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|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC1
 
! align="right" | RC1
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| 8/9
 
| 8/10
 
| 8/10
 
| 8/11
 
| 8/11
 
| 8/12
 
| 8/12
 
| 8/13
 
| 8/13
| 8/14
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC2
 
! align="right" | RC2
 +
| 8/30
 
| 8/31
 
| 8/31
 
| 9/1
 
| 9/1
 
| 9/2
 
| 9/2
 
| 9/3
 
| 9/3
| 9/4
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC3
 
! align="right" | RC3
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| 9/6
 
| 9/7
 
| 9/7
 
| 9/8
 
| 9/8
 
| 9/9
 
| 9/9
 
| 9/10
 
| 9/10
| 9/11
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC4
 
! align="right" | RC4
 +
| 9/13
 
| 9/14
 
| 9/14
 
| 9/15
 
| 9/15
 
| 9/16
 
| 9/16
 
| 9/17
 
| 9/17
| 9/18
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | Helios SR1 ("GA")
 
! align="right" | Helios SR1 ("GA")
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|  
 
|  
 
|  
 
|  
| promote: 9/24
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| promote: 9/23
| GA: 9/25
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| GA: 9/24
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
==== SR2 ====
 
==== SR2 ====
2/26/10 (last Friday of February)
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2/25/2011 (last Friday of February)
  
 
Rampdown similar to SR1.
 
Rampdown similar to SR1.
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|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC1
 
! align="right" | RC1
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| 1/17
 
| 1/18
 
| 1/18
 
| 1/19
 
| 1/19
 
| 1/20
 
| 1/20
 
| 1/21
 
| 1/21
| 1/22
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC2
 
! align="right" | RC2
 +
| 1/31
 
| 2/1
 
| 2/1
 
| 2/2
 
| 2/2
 
| 2/3
 
| 2/3
 
| 2/4
 
| 2/4
| 2/5
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC3
 
! align="right" | RC3
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| 2/7
 
| 2/8
 
| 2/8
 
| 2/9
 
| 2/9
 
| 2/10
 
| 2/10
 
| 2/11
 
| 2/11
| 2/12
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | RC4
 
! align="right" | RC4
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| 2/14
 
| 2/15
 
| 2/15
 
| 2/16
 
| 2/16
 
| 2/17
 
| 2/17
 
| 2/18
 
| 2/18
| 2/19
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
! align="right" | Helios SR2 ("GA")
 
! align="right" | Helios SR2 ("GA")
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|  
 
|  
 
|  
 
|  
| promote: 2/25
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| promote: 2/24
| GA: 2/26
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| GA: 2/25
|}
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===Projects===
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The projects that plan to participate in the Helios Simultaneous Release are listed below, along with their milestone offsets, leaders, release engineer, and ramp down policy.
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{| border="1" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"
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! Project/''Component''
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! Project/''Component'' Lead(s)
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! Release Engineer
+
! Offset
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! Ramp down Policy
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/actf/ Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF)]
+
|| Chieko Asakawa|| Kentarou Fukuda || +3 || [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=technology.actf#rampdown ACTF Ramp-down]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/birt Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)]
+
|| Wenfeng Li || Xiaoying Gu || +2 || [[BIRT2.5_Rampdown_Policy | BIRT Ramp-down Policy for Helios]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster  Buckminster]
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|| Thomas Hallgren, Henrik Lindberg || Thomas Hallgren || +2 || [[Buckminster/Helios_Ramp-Down_Policy|Buckminster Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/cdt CDT]
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|| Doug Schaefer || Vivian Kong || +1 || [[CDT/planning/5.0rampdown | CDT 5.0 Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/dltk DLTK]
+
|| Andrey Platov || Andrey Platov || +3 || [[DLTK/Ramp_Down_Policy-1.0|DLTK 1.0 Ramp Down Policy]]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
<strike>[http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/ DSDP] [http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/dd/ DD]</strike>
+
|| <strike>Pawel Piech</strike> || <strike>Ted Williams</strike> || <strike>+2</strike> || <strike>[[DSDP/DD/DD_1.0_RampDownPolicy|DD Ramp-down]]</strike>
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/ DSDP] [http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/ TM]
+
|| Martin Oberhuber || Martin Oberhuber || +1 || [[DSDP/TM/3.1_Ramp_down_Plan|TM Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
 
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/ DSDP] [http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tml/ TmL]
+
|| Eric Cloninger, Fabio Fantato || Fabio Fantato || +0 || [[DSDP/TML/RampdownPlan_Helios|TmL Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
 
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/ DSDP] [http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/mtj/ MTJ]
+
|| Gustavo de Paula || Diego Madruga Sandin || +1 || [[DSDP/MTJ/MTJ_1.0_Ramp_Down_Plan|MTJ Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/datatools/ Data Tools Platform (DTP)]
+
|| Brian Fitzpatrick || Xiaoying Gu || +1 || [[DTP Helios Rampdown Policy|DTP Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/ Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)]
+
|| Scott Lewis || Ted Kubaska/Scott Lewis || +2 || [[ECF_3.0.0/Helios_Ramp-Down_Policy | ECF Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/ Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink)]
+
|| Peter Krogh, Doug Clarke|| Peter Krogh || +1 || [[EclipseLink/Development/Helios_Ramp_Down | EclipseLink Ramp Down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/ The Eclipse Project]
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/platform Platform], [http://www.eclipse.org/jdt JDT], [http://www.eclipse.org/pde PDE]''
+
|| Mike Wilson || Kim Moir<br/>[http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-releng/buildSchedule.html Build Schedule] || 0 || [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/freeze_plan_3.5.php Eclipse 3.5 Endgame plan]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/Equinox/ Equinox]
+
|| Thomas Watson, Jeff McAffer || Kim Moir<br/>[http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-releng/buildSchedule.html Build Schedule] || 0 || [http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/planning/freeze_plan_3.5.php Equinox 3.5 Endgame plan]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/emf/ EMF]
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=emf#emf EMF (Core)]''
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:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=query#query Query], [http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=transaction#transaction Transaction], [http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=validation#validation Validation],
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/?project=teneo#teneo Teneo]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/?project=net4j#net4j Net4j]'', ''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/?project=cdo#cdo CDO]''
+
|| Ed Merks
+
:''Ed Merks''
+
:''Christian Damus''
+
:''Martin Taal''
+
:''Eike Stepper''
+
|| <br>
+
:''Nick Boldt''
+
:''Christian Damus''
+
:''Martin Taal''
+
:''Eike Stepper''
+
|| <br/>
+
+1<br/>
+
+2<br/>
+
+2<br/>
+
+1, +2
+
||[[Modeling_Project_Ramp_Down_Policy/Helios|Modeling Project<br/>Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft EMFT]
+
:''<strike>[http://www.eclipse.org/emft/projects/search/ EMF Search]</strike>''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/emft/projects/compare/ EMF Compare]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/?project=ecoretools Ecore Tools]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/?project=mint#mint Mint]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/?project=mwe MWE]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/emfindex EMF Index]''
+
|| Ed Merks
+
:''<strike>Lucas Bigeardel</strike>''
+
:''Cédric Brun''
+
:''David Sciamma''
+
:''Peter Nehrer''
+
:''Bernd Kolb''
+
:''Jan Koehnlein''
+
|| <br/>
+
:''<strike>Lucas Bigeardel</strike>''
+
:''Cédric Brun''
+
:''Jacques Lescot''
+
:''Peter Nehrer''
+
:''Dennis Huebner''
+
:''Dennis Huebner''
+
|| <br/>
+
+2
+
||[[Modeling_Project_Ramp_Down_Policy/Helios|Modeling Project<br/>Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/epp/usagedata EPP]
+
|| Markus Knauer
+
:''Wayne Beaton''
+
||
+
Wayne Beaton
+
|| +2
+
|| [http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Helios_Ramp-Down_Policy EPP Ramp Down Policy]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/gef/ Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)]
+
|| Anthony Hunter || Anthony Hunter || +1 ||
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/gef/plan/gef_plan_3_4.php#RampDown GEF 3.4 Ramp-Down]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/gmf/ Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)]
+
|| Richard Gronback || Richard Gronback || +2 || [[Modeling_Project_Ramp_Down_Policy/Helios|Modeling Project<br/>Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/jwt/ JWT]
+
|| Marc Dutoo, Florian Lautenbacher || Christian Saad || +3 || [[JWT Ramp-Down-Policy|JWT Ramp-Down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/mat/ Memory Analyzer (MAT)]
+
|| Andreas Buchen || Erwin Margewitsch || +3 ||
+
|-
+
|
+
 
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/ MDT]
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=ocl#ocl OCL]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=uml2#uml2 UML2]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=uml2tools#uml2tools UML2 Tools]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=xsd#xsd XSD]''
+
|| Kenn Hussey
+
:''Aleksandr Igdalov''
+
:''James Bruck''
+
:''Michael Golubev''
+
:''Ed Merks''
+
|| <br>
+
:''Aleksandr Igdalov''
+
:''James Bruck''
+
:''Michael Golubev''
+
:''Nick Boldt''
+
||<br/>
+
+1<br/>
+
+1<br/>
+
+3<br/>
+
+1
+
| rowspan="3" | [[Modeling_Project_Ramp_Down_Policy/Helios|Modeling Project<br/>Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/ M2M]
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/atl/ ATL]''
+
:''[http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/QVTO QVTO]''
+
|| Frédéric Jouault
+
:''Frédéric Jouault''
+
:''Radek Dvorak''
+
|| <br/>
+
:''William Piers''
+
:''Radek Dvorak''
+
|| &nbsp;
+
+2
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/ M2T]
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/?project=jet#jet JET]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/?project=xpand Xpand]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/?project=acceleo Acceleo]''
+
|| Paul Elder
+
:''Paul Elder''
+
:''Sven Efftinge''
+
:''Jonathan Musset'
+
|| <br>
+
:''Paul Elder''
+
:''Dennis Huebner''
+
:''Cédric Brun''
+
|| <br>
+
+1<br/>+2<br/>+2
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/ Mylyn]
+
|| Mik Kersten || Steffen Pingel || +3 ||
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=tools.mylyn#release_milestones Ramp Down]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/ PHP Development Tools (PDT)]
+
|| Roy Ganor|| Roy Ganor
+
:''Nick Boldt (backup)''
+
|| +3 ||
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/rap/ Rich Ajax Platform (RAP)]
+
||Jochen Krause, Ruediger Herrmann
+
|| Ralf Sternberg, Ruediger Herrmann
+
|| +2
+
||[[RAP/Ramp down Helios|RAP Ramp down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/riena/ Riena]
+
|| Christian Campo || Christian Campo || +3 || [[Riena_Project/Plan/1.1#Ramp_Down|Ramp down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/stp/ SOA Tools Platform (STP)]
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/stp/sca/ SCA Tools]''
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/bpmn/ BPMN]''
+
||Oisin Hurley
+
:''Stéphane Drapeau''
+
:''Antoine Toulmé''
+
||Oisin Hurley <br/>
+
:''Stéphane Drapeau
+
:''Antoine Toulmé
+
|| +3 || [[STP/Helios2009/RampDown|Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/ Subversive]
+
||Igor Vinnykov || Igor Burilo || +2 ||
+
[http://wiki.eclipse.org/Subversive_Ramp_Down_Helios Ramp-down]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/swordfish/ Swordfish]
+
|| Zsolt Beothy-Elo, Oliver Wolf || Zsolt Beothy-Elo || +3 ||
+
[[Swordfish/Ramp_down_Helios|Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/ TMF]
+
:''[http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/?project=xtext Xtext]''
+
|| Sven Efftinge, Frédéric Jouault
+
:''Sven Efftinge''
+
|| <br>
+
Dennis Huebner
+
|| <br>
+
+2
+
||[[Modeling_Project_Ramp_Down_Policy/Helios|Modeling Project<br/>Ramp-down]]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/ Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP)]
+
:''Platform, Test, Trace, Monitoring''
+
|| Kathy Chan || Joel Cayne || +2 || [http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/TPTP_Project_Ramp_Down_Policy_for_Helios Policy]
+
|-
+
|
+
[http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ Web Tools Platform (WTP)]
+
|| David Williams || David Williams || +2 || [[WTP 3.1 Ramp down Plan for Helios]]
+
|-
+
 
|}
 
|}
  
 +
=== Participating Projects ===
  
 +
There is a [[Helios/Participating_Projects |separate page for projects that plan to participate]] in the [[Simultaneous Release]].
  
 
[[Category:Helios]] [[Category:Coordinated]]
 
[[Category:Helios]] [[Category:Coordinated]]

Latest revision as of 01:31, 3 June 2010

This document is for developers of the June 2010 Helios Simultaneous Release. [Need link for users and consumers]



Requirements For Participation

Projects that are part of Helios agree to abide by the requirements of the Eclipse yearly Simultaneous Release.

Compliance Reports show progress on meeting the requirements and their final achievement.

Milestones and Release Candidates

The Release is always on the fourth Wednesday of June. The milestone dates are at roughly 6 week intervals. Any end-of-cycle release-candidate (RC) dates are typically one week apart. Each project has their deliveries due at times offset from the end-date, so that the project dependencies can come together in a reasonable order. These delivery times are based on the dependencies between projects. They are labeled +0, +1, +2, and +3, with +0 coming first (the Platform) and +3 coming last (EPP). Projects themselves decide if they are +0, +1, +2, or +3. The actual time-offset represented by these intervals change over the course of the year of development, being several days at first, but then only one day near the end of the release. The following calendar is the official schedule of the overall Helios Release. Projects are free to have their own schedules as long as they meet the Helios deliverables.

Note that projects choose their own +n category based on major or primary dependencies. There are many cases where a project might have to deliver pieces of their code a little earlier, if some project depends on it, or a little later if they have a stray dependency. These sorts of deviations are left to the projects to work out, pair-wise, among themselves. Feel free to bring up complicated cases for discussion.

Given all these constraints, the exact dates for any particular year are pretty predictable. The following table summarizes the most significant Helios dates, but see the subsequent calendar for the important details. That is, your stuff is due earlier than these table dates! Projects need to deliver a week or two before these "end dates", depending on their chosen, committed offset category (+0, +1, etc).

Note added 6/2/2010: see message to cross project list for clarification of exact final week process ... and remember to clarify Indigo's plan similarly.


M1  Friday, August 21, 2009
M2  Friday, October 2
M3  Friday, November 13
M4  Friday, December 18
M5  Friday, February 5, 2010
M6  Friday, March 19
EclipseCon! March 22
M7  Friday, May 7
RC1 Friday, May 21
RC2 Friday, May 28
RC3 Friday, June 4
RC4 Friday, June 11
Release Wednesday, June 23


The calendar is available in the following formats: ICal,ATOM News Feed,HTML

Communication Channels

Cross-Project Milestone & RC Status Reporting

Only negative status needs to be reported. It is essential for many aspect of the simultaneous release that communication be prompt and clear, on many topics. One of the most important ones, is if someone is not meeting some date or delivery. Put another way, we assume everyone is on target and has delivered their stuff unless a note is sent to cross-project list that you are delayed. Its better to be up front about it, so everyone knows what to expect, rather than to hope things turn out ok at the very last minute, since if you "miss" without saying anything you are more likely to impact other people, and miss your chance to be part of the release.

Mailing Lists and Newsgroups

Eclipse projects have three communication channels: a mailing list for developers, a newsgroup for users, and Bugzilla. While Helios is not a "project" per se, it will use the same structure:

Developer mailing list
  • cross-projects-issues-dev - mailing list for developers and releng (see archives). This is the list to use to discuss build issues, announce changes in plans, slippage in deliverables, etc.
Users news group
Bugzilla

If there is any doubt about where a bug belongs, it can always start in the "Cross-Project" component. (Under Eclipse Foundation > Community). If it turns out to be a single-project's responsibility, it can be moved to that project. If it is a true cross-project bug, where several projects need to act, then it can stay in the cross-project component.

The Planning Council Mailing List

Because there has been confusion in the past, we'll be explicit here that the planning council mailing list (eclipse.org-planning-council) is for Planning Council business, not the Helios Release activities per se. While they sometimes overlap, there is no need to cross post. While anyone can request a subscription to the planning council list (for openness and transparency) the expectation is that only Planning Council members post to it.

Conference Calls

The Planning Council has regularly scheduled calls for Planning Council business. See conference calls.

But there are no planned calls for the release, per se, or for larger audiences, but they can be arranged if required or desired (for example, if needed for build coordination).

Helios Builds and P2 repository

Builds (Aggregation)

This section, about assembling the repositories, is subject to change, as improvements in the process are made.

A number of utilities have been written to automate the assembly of Callisto '06, Europa '07, Ganymede '08, Galileo '09, and now Helios '10 builds. These are available in their own CVS repository. You can find more information about the history and organization by looking at some of the old, previous information on the Galileo Build, Ganymede Build or Europa Build pages).

With Helios we are using the Buckminster Galileo/Helios Builder (with some discussion of incorporating the Buckminster Aggregator).

The Contributing to Helios Build page is where you go to learn how to add your project to the Helios build.

p2 Repository

To obtain the latest published bits from Helios, use this URL:

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios

It contains the latest milestone, release candidate, eventually the release itself, and then eventually service releases.

To obtain the latest working version, as we build up to a milestone or release, you can test the site at

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/staging

Service Releases

Coordinated Service Releases are (always) scheduled for the fourth Friday of September, and the fourth Friday of February. Individual Projects may have their own, of course, at any time, if they need to, but all participants in the Yearly Release, are expected to participate in the Coordinated Service Releases. What bugs are fixed, if any, is up to each Project to decide, but each Project must continue to "fit in", build, install, avoid conflicts, etc.

[Note: the following Service Release dates have not yet been added to the above calender, but will be soon.]

SR1

GA: 9/24/2010 (last Friday of September)

In the SR1 rampdown, as shown in the following table, there will be 4 RCs, each spanning one week, with projects staging themselves into the build just one day apart.

Projects may elect not to participate in a particular RC, but have an obligation to fix any build problems that are related to their code or p2 repository.

RC1 will be in the middle of August, several weeks earlier than previous years, just to make sure we can still build, etc. Subsequent RCs dates are similar to previous years, except a "quiet" final week is also planned. (It is normally pretty quiet anyway ... this just formalizes it).

The Final week before GA will not have any further builds or contributions, but instead be reserved for final adopter testing and preparation and only emergency fixes for very serious regressions will be considered.

The 'promote' day (9/23) will be the day projects put final zips in their final spot (without displaying them) so they can propagate through the mirroring system. Similar for the p2 repository -- it will be replaced on 9/23 with the new content so it can start mirroring. Note: there is no plan to retain multiple versions in the common discovery repository (unless someone volunteers to do what's required to make that happen). At noon on 9/24 projects can make their final maintenance releases visible.

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EPP
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RC1 8/9 8/10 8/11 8/12 8/13
RC2 8/30 8/31 9/1 9/2 9/3
RC3 9/6 9/7 9/8 9/9 9/10
RC4 9/13 9/14 9/15 9/16 9/17
Helios SR1 ("GA") promote: 9/23 GA: 9/24

SR2

2/25/2011 (last Friday of February)

Rampdown similar to SR1.


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EPP
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RC1 1/17 1/18 1/19 1/20 1/21
RC2 1/31 2/1 2/2 2/3 2/4
RC3 2/7 2/8 2/9 2/10 2/11
RC4 2/14 2/15 2/16 2/17 2/18
Helios SR2 ("GA") promote: 2/24 GA: 2/25

Participating Projects

There is a separate page for projects that plan to participate in the Simultaneous Release.

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