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Re: [ecf-dev] ECF 3.8.1/Luna status
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Hi Folks,
Since this post, I've done ECF's RC2 contribution (signed and all) so
you can get the latest for install testing here:
p2 repo: http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.8.1.rc2/site.p2
zip:
http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.8.1.rc2/org.eclipse.ecf.sdk_3.8.1.v20140528-0146.zip
Thanks,
Scott
On 5/27/2014 6:27 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
Hi Folks,
As far as I'm concerned, ECF 3.8.1/Luna is complete. A quick summary
of what's happened and what's ahead:
1) Thanks to ECF committer Jan Rellermeyer, the rosgi provider has
been updated to support Java8 [1]. Incidentally, if someone has an
answer to my build/releng question in comment 25 [2], please answer on
the bug.
2) I've made a number of small fixes/updates/simplifications to the
feature meta-data.
3) I've removed most of the old contents of org.eclipse.ecf.doc (the
Eclipse help docs that come with ECF), and replaced it with some docs
and with pointers to the OSGi Remote Services documentation in the
wiki [3].
4) Made a number of other small meta-data fixes.
According to me, the above means that ECF 3.8.1/Luna is pretty much
complete, and so I'm personally moving on to focus on ECF's support
for RSA 1.1 specification. Before discussing that work below,
however, I want to request that people on this list do *some final
install testing of the latest build of ECF, available in the p2 repo
here [4]*. If you find problems with the installation or testing,
please *open major bugs right away*.
What's Next: RSA 1.1/OSGi R6
For the past four months, I and others have been working on supporting
RSA 1.1/OSGi R6, previously known as RFC 203. This is an
update/enhancement of the Remote Service Admin specification (1.0 ->
1.1). The work has been and will be done on a git branch named rfc1.1
[5]. The work is nearly done.
OSGi Reference Implementation
ECF is currently under evaluation for becoming the OSGi R6 RS/RSA
reference implementation. What does the evaluation consist of? The
technically most important thing is that ECF's impl passes the OSGi
RS/RSA Compatibility Test suite (CT). This is a set of junit tests
that verify that any RS/RSA impl is behaving as specified. We
currently run the entire OSGi R5 CT suite on our Jenkins builder, upon
every relevant checkin, to test for regression. When the R6 spec and
CT are complete (that's not the case yet), we will setup our builder
to run this test suite as well. So being able to pass the R6 CT tests
is a big part of the driver for completing the work started on the
rfc1.1 branch.
There are other, non-technical criteria for candidate RI
implementations also. For example, using an acceptable open source
license, having a clear understanding of the code provenance, having
consistent builds, producing regular binary releases, making source
code available, etc. Happily, as a mature open source project that
participates in the EF annual simultaneous release (Luna this year),
and having our own most excellent builder at [6], we easily satisfy
these non-technical criteria as well without having to do
extra/additional work.
To sum up:
1) Please install the latest build of ECF [4] and immediately open new
bugs if problems are found
2) Over next few weeks, I'm moving to complete support for RSA 1.1, by
completing work on the rfc1.1 branch and then when Luna quiet week
arrives (week of June 16 [7])...merging rfc1.1 branch into
master...for ECF 3.9 (RSA 1.1 support essentially).
3) If you are able/interested in getting involved in the work on RSA
1.1 and/or the reference impl evaluation please let me know. I would
like to have assistance in performing this work...and the associated
testing and releng/builder additions/changes.
Thanks! It's going to be a very exciting summer and fall for ECF!
Scott
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430752
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430752#c25
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF
[4]
http://build.ecf-project.org/repo/C-HEAD-filetransfer.p2.feature/lastSuccessful/
[5] http://git.eclipse.org/c/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.git?h=rfc1.1
[6] https://build.ecf-project.org/jenkins/
[7] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Luna/Simultaneous_Release_Plan
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