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Re: [modeling-pmc] Action items for the Juno release
Anthony,

Comments below.

On 30/08/2011 8:21 AM, Anthony Hunter wrote:
Hi Team,

It has been a while since our last modeling PMC meeting. We likely should schedule one next month to prepare for the Juno release.
Yes, it's been ages.

Traditionally, the modeling projects in the yearly simultaneous release shared many common aspects in their release. I would like to confirm we all intend to do the same thing during Juno.

Off the top of my head, there are currently three, maybe there are more?

1) Platform Support

Eclipse 4.2 is the primary platform, the one used for EPP Packages. ( see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Planning_Council/August_03_2011 )
Unfortunately I missed that meeting.
We need a statement in our release plans with regards to Eclipse 3.8. Historically, we have communicated that we have no interest in actively supporting modeling on multiple versions of platforms. Are we all going to go with "No support for 3.8 based apps." or something else?
That's a good question.  It's hard to imagine having time to create new improved EMF UI bundles that exploit 4.x and don't rely on any compatibility layer.  To avoid forking EMF, we'd need to go with a similar approach and provide a compatibility layer.  The resources for such an effort simply don't exist.

I'm also not sure what we should be say about not supporting 3.8.  I was more imagining for EMF we'd build and test against 3.8 and then it would be nice to also test against 4.2 (or assume that a whole bunch of downstream clients will test against 4.2 so we don't have to).

2) Builds on 4.2

Since we ship on 4.2, we need to move our builds to 4.2.
I'm not sure that's a forgone conclusion.  Shouldn't we be producing results that work on 3.8 and on 4.2, expecting the same result to work in both places, and if they don't, it's a problem the platform team needs to address in the compatibility layer?
Has there been success so far? We used to have a common modeling build, but since then, we have many build technologies. I am looking for something that works on 4.2 for some of the projects I lead.

3) GIT migration

I cannot find the reference, perhaps someone can help me, but we have a mandate to migrate from CVS to GIT. Has this been a successful migration?
Again, whether resource exists to migrate to GIT isn't a forgone conclusion.  I'd certainly very much like to migrate "my projects" (EMF core and XSD) to GIT.

Cheers...
Anthony
 

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