WTP 2010-06-24

WTP Development Status Meeting

Attendees

Project Leads
Carl
Tim
Keith
Nitin
Chuck
Kaloyan
Raghu
Neil
David

Committers
Bob
Konstantin
Chris
Dave
Larry
Kate
Angel
Valentin
Paul
Nick
Gabriel
Eric
Rob
Sam

Friends
Elson
Ian
Aidyl

Note: feel free to correct any errors/omissions in above attendance record.

Remember, any committer can add an agenda item. Typically, short announcements or news items go in the "Announcements" section at the beginning. Longer items or issues requiring discussion should go in the "Other business" section at end.

Announcements And Special Reports

Congratulations on 3.2! And thank you all very much!
Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) 2010
Helios in Action (2 slots!) ... How was it?

WTP Calendar

(Weekly Google Calendar updated through June, 2010)

For Helios overall dates, see a Simultaneous Release Calendar

WTP 3.2.1

No Build to declare this week (Planning week)

WTP 3.2.x maintenance release plan

how/when to branch code? WTP_How_to:_Branching_Policy_and_Practices (updated ... but feel free to improve)

In brief, while you are doing ONLY maintenance (so maintenance and "next major release" are exactly the same code) you can develop in only HEAD, but just be sure to release to the branched map files. You can merge (or "compare") HEAD map files with branched map files, so they have the exact same version tags in both map files ... that is, there is no need to "release" twice (should have exact same version and qualifier in both builds, if code is really exactly the same).

Remember to bump service field version ... normally +1, if destined for WTP 3.2.1, +100 only required if doing service for next major release, that will not be in a service release.

Once maintenance and "next major release" code streams start to differ, we have agreed, in the past, that code in the same map file, should all be branched together, at the same time, and comments in the map file updated. This makes it easier for others to "load up" an environment for what ever stream they are working on, where as if done bundle by bundle, no one can easily figure that out what's what.