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[mylyn-reviews-dev] Reviews M6: Please pardon our dust…

Greetings, fellow Reviews users:

You might have noticed that M6 is ..um.. not so perfect. (The issues seem to be all remote refresh related, and one annoying work around is to close and re-open the review. This is all being heavily reengineered so it probably doesn't make sense to file more bugs against it.) Depending on your tolerance level, you may return to 1.1 for the time being and not install 2.0/M6 if you haven't yet.

Given awkward project timing, the current drop is more like a 2.0 M1. Most Mylyn projects milestones are near production quality and we already knew we wouldn't meet this very high bar. (See http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/mylyn-reviews-dev/msg00679.html). But mea culpa -- in the push to keep things moving through review for EclipseCon, changes went in to M6 that probably should have waited. To make a house reno analogy, we replaced all the bathroom fixtures, but in the process "discovered" all of the pipes were corroded and didn't fit. So you can use the toilet, just don't flush! ;) (BTW, for those wondering "why didn't you make those changes on a separate dev branch?!": Given that *all* of the improvements we are making (including such things as the new Review Explorer and the editor integrations) that would have meant that there were basically *no changes* to the actual milestone releases, until we dumped everything on the community at RC1, which to my eyes sort of negates the whole point of the release train in the first place.)

The good news is that M7 should suck *much* less and we expect RC1 to be at or near release quality. The new remote API implementation will be finished and we'll have replaced all of the existing Gerrit connector bits, so we'll be on a new unified architecture, which will support all kinds of great stuff.

thanks for your patience!

Miles


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Miles T. Parker
Tasktop
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Project Lead: Mylyn MFT and AMP
Committer: Mylyn Reviews, R4E, Virgo
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