[dash-dev] Dash Common Builder Project News

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Everyone:

It's been about a month since the last Build Workshop [0], so I thought 
it was time to update people on where we're at with the development effort.


== Planning ==

Last week Andrew O and I assigned some priorities to bugs and set them 
to milestone dates. Bear in mind these are tentative, DRAFT dates, but 
should hopefully give a sense for where the project is going and how we 
intend to focus our efforts. If you see something assigned to a low 
priority or distant milestone and would like it done sooner, we welcome 
contributions and will help you set up a dev environment where you can 
work on creating a patch and building locally.

Because we intend to be an agile team, we will respond to 
reprioritization requests via bugzilla.

The draft plan is here [1].


== Progress ==

For the latest new development, watch Bugzilla [2, 3], the project plan 
[1], or this status report document [4].


== EclipseCON '09 ==

Andrew O and I have submitted a workshop [5] and two talks [6, 7] for 
EclipseCON '09 in the Emerging Tech track. If you'd like to participate 
as a speaker, assistant, tester, or whatever, please don't hesitate to 
let us know. Assuming all three get accepted, we'll need to create 
workshop content including courseware (plugins w/ cheatsheets and 
instructions), a demo, a live boot CD, and configure a build server... 
plus slides!

I'm also thinking of running a BoF, if there's community interest.


== Early Adopters ==

There's been a number of projects (linuxtools, e4, Nebula) eager to try 
out the Athena builder (aka the Common Builder, aka the CBI), and we're 
grateful for the interest and the beta-testing. Some issues have already 
been aired and cleared as a result of people hitting use cases we'd not 
previously considered.

Thanks for the help -- more beta testers are of course welcome, but 
please remember that it's still very early in the development cycle and 
there's a lot still to be done.

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[0]http://wiki.eclipse.org/Build_Workshop_3:_Build_Hard_With_A_Purpose 
[1]http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/dash/athena/project-info/plan.xml&component=Athena 
[2]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=Dash&component=Common+Builder&order=bugs.status_whiteboard%2Cbugs.resolution&status_whiteboard=m&status_whiteboard_type=substring 
[3]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=Dash&component=Common+Builder&order=bugs.status_whiteboard%2Cbugs.resolution&status_whiteboard=m&status_whiteboard_type=notregexp 
[4]http://wiki.eclipse.org/Build_Workshop_3:_Build_Hard_With_A_Purpose/Report 
[5]https://www.eclipsecon.org/submissions/2009/view_talk.php?id=302
[6]https://www.eclipsecon.org/submissions/2009/view_talk.php?id=303
[7]https://www.eclipsecon.org/submissions/2009/view_talk.php?id=304


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Nick Boldt :: http://wiki.eclipse.org/User:Nickb
Release Engineer :: Eclipse Modeling & Dash CBI