[cross-project-issues-dev] Status of Helios M1

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are half way through the M1 window, and amazingly enough, I was able to 
produce a common discovery site this weekend, at 
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/staging/
(Subject to the same cautionary note as for maintenance site, the download 
servers are intermittent at the moment, so installs from there probably 
won't work, right now)

This common site contains contributions from 32 projects. As you might 
guess ... I don't know if they actually _work_ ... I really just mean the 
build worked to mirror them there and verify them as the current 
aggregater does. 

To be able to accomplish this "successful build", I used the 
tried-and-true advanced programming technique of "if code does not work, 
just remove it". 

Iterating with that technique resulted in the blind removal of the 
following 14 contributions: 

mdt-ocl.build
emf-transaction.build
m2t-acceleo.build
m2t-jet.build
mdt-uml2.build
m2m-qvtoml.build
gmf.build
mdt-uml2tools.build
emft-ecoretools.build
m2t-xpand.build
tmf-xtext.build
dsdp-mtj.build
stp.build
riena.build

Many of these have previously warned us of delays, so no surprise there, 
and we'll see how many can get back in by the end of this week. Hopefully 
all. Some of these were "direct" failures, but then others, I'm sure, only 
failed since I removed some of the others. 

This might be a good time for effected projects to take a step back and 
look at your dependancies ... can any be simplified? Made optional? Made 
more resilient to change? I say this in the sense that one of the frequent 
complaints of Eclipse adopters is that it is very hard to move up from one 
release to another ... and I think this "fragile chain" effect is one of 
those reasons. So, are we experiencing what our adopters experience? Of 
course, I'm not sure what the cause of these above failures are ... they 
might all be quite minor and quite reasonable given this was our "first 
build". But still, the ideal is a smooth transition for everyone. We'll 
see how smooth the rest of the week goes.

At any rate, removed projects can add yourself back in when ready. I think 
re-builds will happen automatically, but you can keep your eye on the 
build page at 
https://build.eclipse.org/hudson/view/Repository%20Aggregation/
and just kick off a build when you are ready. Let me know if you need help 
or have questions. 

Thanks,