VIATRA/DeveloperMeetingMinutes/Meeting20160225

Topics

• Bugzilla status: VIATRA
• Restructuring status
• TODOs from last week
  • Zoli: Prepare a list of found issues, and open bugs accordingly

Minutes

• Issue list
  • RunOnce Engine issue: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=488439
  • Cheat Sheets really old: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=488217
  • QBF generator in migrated projects: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=488209
  • Comment update in QueryEngineManager: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=488211
  • CEP duplicates ProjectGenerationHelper: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=488208
• Xcore integration?
  • downgrade to incubation
  • not upgraded yet
  • TODO Zoli: namespace update should be done
  • can be removed from build
  • TODO Tomi:
    • try to make it work with current Xcore version and updated code
    • update wiki page
• Committer election
  • voting finished, paperwork in progress
• Repo freeze will be over after today when we upload the changes to the repo
  • Everyone should install a new environment from the new VIATRA setup
  • it will import all projects for now
• wiki migration
  • complete EMF-IncQuery content should be moved
  • update out-dated content afterwards
• migration tool (https://wiki.eclipse.org/VIATRA/Releases/MigrationTo1.2 )
  • works correctly in most cases, but there are some hard to correct quirks
  • some testing by other committers should be done
  • suggest parts that should be made optional
  • TODO wiki:
    • classic migration guide
      • including table for renamings
    • more logical structure for parts that are not corrected by the migration tool
• Miklós Földényi communicated that he can no longer contribute to the project
  • he will become a committer alumni
• news about the merging on the viatra.net page
• null values for variables
  • embedded NAC is a long-standing request
  • simply “allowing” nulls for variables is a big semantic change
  • supporting null check inside pattern can be additive change
  • alternative: support neg for path expressions
• action plan:
  • wait for Zoli to signal repo freeze over
  • checkout new repo
  • check your access rights to repo (use dry-run push)
• CPS demo should be added to VIATRA
  • org.eclipse.viatra namespace
  • code contributed to Eclipse.org before next release