Project Plan For Mint, version 0.9.0
Introduction
This document lays out the feature and API set for the 0.9.0 release of the EMFT Mint project.
This project plan inherits from the Eclipse Modeling Framework Technology (EMFT) Project Plan,
which should be referenced when consulting this individual project plan.
Release Deliverables
The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:
- Mint source code release, available as versions tagged with "R0_9_0" in the project's CVS repository.
- Mint SDK, which includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation, and is available as a download or on the update site.
- Mint runtime binary distribution, available as a download or on the update site.
- Mint tests available as a download.
Release Milestones
Release milestones occur at roughly 6 week intervals
and follow the Platform release milestone by the Helios-established +2 delta interval.
The final Mint 0.9.0 release will available simultaneously
with the 3.6 release of the Platform and all the other Helios projects.
It is anticipated that Mint will synchronize its milestones
with any changes to the Helios milestone schedule.
| M4 | 12/15/2008 | |
| M5 | 02/02/2009 | |
| M6 | 03/16/2009 | API freeze |
| M7 | 05/04/2009 | Feature Freeze |
| RC1 | 05/18/2009 | |
| RC2 | 05/25/2009 | |
| RC3 | 06/01/2009 | |
| RC4 | 06/08/2009 | |
| RC5 | 06/15/2009 | |
| 0.9.0 | 06/23/2009 |
Mint will produce maintenance releases to align with the Helios Service Releases,
which includes the Eclipse Platform's 3.6.1 and 3.6.2 releases.
- Friday, September 24, 2010 - Mint 0.9.1 maintenance release for Helios Service Release 1.
- Friday, February 25, 2011 - Mint 0.9.2 maintenance release for Helios Service Release 2.
- Version numbers are subject to change should there be be any additional maintenance releases. A list of the issues addressed for the 0.9.x maintenance stream are available in the 0.9.x release notes.
Target Environments
Mint 0.9.0 will depend on version 3.6 of the Eclipse Platform Project, as well as on
EMF Core 2.6.0. While the Platform targets Java™ 2, Standard Edition (J2SE),
v1.4 as the minimum required Java Runtime Environment (JRE), EMF Core requires at least J2SE 5.0.
Therefore, Mint 0.9.0 will also require J2SE 5.0 or later.
The Eclipse Platform SDK 3.6 will be tested and validated on a number of reference platforms;
Mint will only be tested and validated against a subset of those.
Given that there is no operating system dependent code in Mint,
it is expected that Mint will work in any environment supported by the Eclipse Platform and EMF Core.
Internationalization
The Eclipse Platform is designed as the basis for internationalized products.
The user interface elements provided by the Eclipse SDK components,
including dialogs and error messages, are externalized.
The English strings are provided as the default resource bundles.
Similarly, the Mint project will externalize all its user interface elements,
provide English strings for them in its default bundles,
and localize a subset of the locales offered by the Platform.
The download page will provide the details as they become available.
Compatibility with Previous Releases
The Mint project will be developed in parallel,
and released simultaneously,
with the following projects:
- Eclipse Platform SDK version 3.6
- EMF Core version 2.6.0
Themes and Priorities
Project goals and agreed upon implementation time frames are listed in this document.
For the milestones listed in this document,
a set of overall themes is used to indicate what major set of functionalities is expected to be the focus of each.
These themes are presented below,
while the goals of the associated Bugzilla entries are available for more detailed information.
Interoperability
Some functionality provided by Mint (e.g., navigation from model object to its corresponding Java elements) may be
reusable by existing EMF-based components. Effort will be made to provide integration code to expose Mint functionality
in user interfaces contributed by other EMFT components, such as EMF Search, EMF Compare, and Ecore Tools.
- Committed
- No items.
- Proposed
- No items.
- Deferred
- No items.
Documentation
The initial release of Mint provided no user documentation and only minimal developer documentation
(i.e., the Javadoc). A User Guide and a Programmer's Guide will be provided in this release.
- Committed
- No items.
- Proposed
- No items.
- Deferred
- No items.
Examples
Mint provides API to support arbitrary EMF-based models that are used to generate Java code.
An example showing how to make Mint work with another Java-producing Ecore model will be provided.
- Committed
- No items.
- Proposed
- No items.
- Deferred
- No items.
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