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[emft-dev] Fw: New release notes engine and how this affects your workflow


Hi, all,

Some nice changes to the EMFT release notes engine are described in the attached e-mail.

Cheers,

Christian



Christian W. Damus
Component Lead,
MDT UML2 OCL and EMFT-QTV
IBM Rational Software

----- Forwarded by Christian Damus/Ottawa/IBM on 11/30/06 11:35 AM -----
Neil Skrypuch/Toronto/IBM

11/30/06 10:42 AM

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New release notes engine and how this affects your workflow




The new release notes engine that I've built is now up and has replaced the old engine.

The left nav for EMF and MDT has been updated accordingly, the EMFT nav has a patch that Nick can commit when he gets in, but here's some direct links:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/news/relnotes.php
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/news/relnotes.php
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php

One of the benefits of this new engine is that you shouldn't need to create duplicate bugs for the maintenance stream anymore, simply tag the commit to HEAD and to Rx_y_maintenance with the same bug id, and the new release notes will sort things out based on where it was commited to in CVS. For example:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php?project=validation&version=1.1M3
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php?project=validation&version=M200611161604
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/searchcvs.php?q=159212

Another benefit of the engine is that you can now see the release notes for a specific build rather than just an entire release cycle, for example:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/news/relnotes.php?project=emf&version=2.3.0M3
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/news/relnotes.php?project=uml2-uml&version=I200604211313
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php?project=validation&version=M200608171956

Overall, the release notes should be more accurate (less duplicates, branch crossing, etc), faster, and less work for committers (and website maintainers) now.

Nick: Could you pass this along to anyone from MDT.* and EMFT.* that I missed?

- Neil

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