Schedule:
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Simultaneous_Release#Milestones_and_Release_Candidates
- We're trying to roll out Europa RC0 - Bjorn is trying to find a
work-around for pack200 / digest / update manager bugs
- Then we're supposed to be working Europa RC1 this week.
The +1 day is 5/23 (will be "today" on the call). The +2 date is Friday.
- After that is 1 1/2 weeks of RC2. And then one week for RC3. And
so on. The schedule is tightening down and there are still a
disappointing number of obvious bugs that even a keyboard monkey like
myself can find.
- Because we are moving rapidly into the end game here where quick
turn around on problems and fixes is essential, I need to be able to
contact all the relevant project leads and release engineers. The
Threat: I've said this before and I'll say it again: Europa will be
going out on-time even if it has to exclude some +2 projects. In other
words, if there is a build problem at the last minute and I do
not have a way to contact the build engineer and/or the project lead to
remedy that problem, I will remove the broken project(s) (just as I did
tonight, removing DTP from RC0a because DTP broke the build). Thus
please send me the contact information (mobile phone, email address, IM
handles, skype handles, the whole nine-yards) for the person who will
be responsible for the next month and a week.
- Please email these contact details to
me in a separate message - please do NOT
reply to this email message because if you do you will broadcast those
personal details to the world and they will be published for spammers
in the mail archives.
- Please resend this information to me if
you think I already have it. Better safe than not in Europa, eh?
Cross Project Testing:
- David did some initial testing and found some bugs with WTP.
- I did some quick load-and-click testing with all the projects
loaded and found more bugs.
Bugs: in addition to your project specific bugs, these are fairly
obvious fit-and-finish bugs with loading individual or groups of
projects:
- 186506
- WTP feature pre-reqs
- 187975
- Two version of installed feature
- 188375
- Very slow response time in update manager
- 188518
- Buckminster doesn't install from Europa update site
- 188519
- STP doesn't install from Europa update site.
- 188520
- DLTK start-up error
- 170160
and 188523
- Mylar and JST PageDesigner shortcut key conflicts
- 188524
- Mylar error on startup
- 188525
- ECF help system stack dump
- 188526
- Eclipsemonkey activation errors
- 188527
- TPTP activation errors
- 188535
- UML2 activation error
- 188536
- JDT Debug activation error
- 188539
- CDT cheat sheet activation errors
- 188540
- Modeling cheat sheet activation errors
- 188546
- RSE help files missing
- 188548
- Platform help file missing
- 188549
- WTP/JPT help files missing
- 188551
- AJDT help files missing
- 188553
- Platform keyboard shortcut conflicts
and our old friends:
- 187396
- jarPackager creating zero length files and other corruption although
I've installed various work-arounds in the Europa-matic (it how edits
the digest.xml to fix the missing space and it deletes zero-length gz
files; hacks, but it's the best I can do)
- 187979
- a related issue with corrupted packed files
Other statii:
- Janet feels 85% confident that all the known IP issues can be
resolved prior to the release date. That's good news.
- The packaging project status is unknown. Their newsgroup
doesn't say much. Their mailing
list doesn't say much. Their web
page doesn't say much. There's a proposal
for a download page that includes packages but I'd say it's 50-50
at best that there will be packages.
Interesting facts:
- Help has 37 top-level entries in the table of contents.
- They are not alphabetized and many do not have an obvious user
context. For example "Using the Managed Agent Explorer" isn't going to
make much sense to a user unless they already know what a Managed Agent
is.
- I didn't see any obvious conflicts in context menus, i.e., no
duplicate "Run.." menu items or such. There are a number of somewhat
confusing items in the context menus - perhaps they make sense when the
Europa projects are loaded individually but when they are all loaded
together the inconsistencies show up.
Must dos (Mn) and should dos (Sn):
- (M4) STP is not using four-part version numbers
- (M9) We haven't taken names on the calls, but many projects have
not been showing up for the (brief) Europa coordination calls.
- (M11) Send the release engineer contact information to Bjorn (bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx)
- (M14) AJDT, Buckminster, CDT, and GEF are missing ramp down
policies on the
wiki page.
I urge everyone to work on testing their project with all the
projects loaded.
- Bjorn
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