I'll be one of the first to stand up and thank Oisin for
his great work in the community. And he's a great guy to
boot.
But this is the point we've all been dreading. Do we have
the, well, you know, to vote projects off the island for breaking the rules?
STP has a pretty long history of breaking builds and missing deadlines. If
these events were in isolation, then I'd say let it go. But they are not. In
fact, we probably should have brought this up when they missed the release
review deadline.
Before casting my vote, I'd like to hear from the STP
project what their action plan is to resolve these issues. I may be alone here,
but I don't really care if they sign and pack their jars, and i'm sure they can
fix their feature files in time. But if I don't get a sense that these issues
are going to stop, then I would have to vote to remove them.
Doug.
Ganymedians,
Given that:
- STP has bad data in their feature files: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=236640
- STP doesn't yet sign or pack their jars (information from today's
release review call)
- See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede#Must_Do
items 13, 14
It almost seems like, that STP does not
qualify under http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede#Must_Do
item 2 "have a mature build process". We're 12 days from the 'final released
bits' date and 2 days from the 'final build date' and STP doesn't have a good
build that conforms to the must dos and "plays well with others".
Are
we going to vote them off the island?
- Bjorn
P.S. I really regret
being the "heavy" here because I know that Oisin and the STP team are nice
people, they are well intentioned, they are trying hard, but the facts are
what the facts are.
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