[ecf-dev] Helios Endgame

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

We're now at RC3 for Helios.  Here's the overall schedule, btw, for 
those that aren't aware [1].

In order to try to coordinate across time zones and project teams...and 
avoid as many last second fire drills as possible (which are 
uncomfortable for everyone...especially me :)...I ask that during the 
last few weeks before release that we impose the following rules for 
commits/committers:

1) If you find/report a bug please *also* send an email to this mailing 
list pointing to the bugzilla bug.
2) ONLY commit changes to HEAD/3.3 stream that are major (or higher) bug 
fixes.  *No* other commits.  The two exceptions to this are: 
  a) projects at dev.eclipse.org that are not included in Helios.  
Please *make sure* that the project is not included in Helios (i.e. in 
incubation area).
  b) projects at ecf1.osuosl.org
3) When you resolve a bug, please send an email to that effect to this 
mailing list
4) Everyone that can please do some install testing...i.e. download the 
lastest release candidates of Eclipse [2] and then use it to install the 
ECF SDK from either the Helios site that is included in the platform or 
here [3].
5) Please smoke test the ECF SDK components...as many of them as you 
can.  If you find either install or runtime problems, please open/file 
bugs *immediately*, mark them as major or higher severity, and send a 
note to this mailing list (as per 1).

In approximately 1 week, one of the ECF committers will create a branch 
with the name:  Release_3_3.  At *that* point, we will open up HEAD to 
start development on ECF 3.4.  Until then, with the project exceptions a 
and b noted above, please do not make any unauthorized changes to HEAD.

Helios is going to be a great release for the ECF community...fantastic 
new contributions, OSGi remote services leadership, SOA, lots of other 
great new stuff [4], so lets all work together to make it high 
quality...and also make it as survivable as possible :).

Thanks,

Scott

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Helios_Simultaneous_Release
[2] http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/
[3] http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.3/helios/site.p2  (p2 URL)
[4] http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/NewAndNoteworthy.html