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[sirius-dev] Status update for Sirius 1.0.0M7
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Hi all,
The next milestone, Sirius 1.0.0M7, will be released on 2014-05-09. Note
that this date is for the whole Luna M7 release. Platform is released
one week earlier, and Sirius having an offset of +3 must be released and
contributed to the aggregation by May 7 (earlier is better). We want to
keep the last week before the release for stabilization only, so this
gives us this calendar:
* April 28: feature freeze, last date to merge impacting changes on
master for M7, start of stabilization period.
* May 7: Sirius 1.0.0M7 released and contributed to Luna M7.
* May 9: Luna M7 released.
The following items are already completed for M7:
* #430527: We fixed all packaging issues identified by the automated
reports which were launched on M6. In particular our update-sites now
include pack200 versions of our JARs.
* #428322, #431634: The dynamic tabbar work, which was disabled by
mistake in M6, will finally be visible in M7. This allowed us to find
(and fix) a memory leak in the platform, which will also by released in M7.
* #427803: The metamodel and associated code for the diagram dialect has
now been completely moved out of the core of Sirius itself.
* #430263: Starting with M7, Sirius will no longer automatically start
and load itself as soon as Eclipse is launched, but instead will be
loaded only when it starts to be used. This will improve the startup
time of the Eclipse Modeling Package (among others).
These are in progress, and should normally be finished before the freeze:
* #431132, #431133, #430536: Various improvements in the way we manage
the target platforms used to build Sirius. They should enable a better
control on what we depend on and better/earlier visibility on potential
integration issues.
* #429682: We had to change some of our APIs (with no loss of
functionality) to avoid exposing Guava-specific types. See the bugzilla
(and the related #428976) for the technical details, but the end result
is better compatibility with the other components of the release train
(and ecosystem at large).
* #427247: Cleanup of our metamodels by removing very old and
unsupported parts. While each of these are technically API changes, they
should have very little impact on most users. If you rely heavily on the
Sirius meta-models in your code, please see the details in the bugzilla
about the actual changes, and the release notes which explain how to
adapt your code when relevant. Note that this is actually a rather large
task, only parts of which will be done in M7.
* #431359: For historical reasons, the definition of the Sirius session
resources (the aird files) was done in the diagram-specific plug-ins.
This can cause issues when only the core of Sirius but not the
diagram-specific parts are installed. This issue is about moving this
definition back into the core. The related #427017 tries to remove a
costly GMF-specific adapter on aird resources.
These are either not started yet or not in an advanced state but are
important bugfixes or improvements that we'll do our best to include
before M7:
* #432986: This is a loss of functionality as a side-effect of moving
the diagram dialect out of the core. We understand what happened and how
to fix it, but have not started working it yet.
* #432021: Sirius installs some of its (layout) providers too broadly,
which causes issues when using other GMF-based tools (e.g. Papyrus) if
Sirius is installed.
* #430495, #432931: better support for XText-based models.
* #430579: better defaults in Tree dialect to avoid performance issues.
* #430724: use a more efficient session SavingPolicy by default.
* #432133: possible incompatibility with XSD-based Ecore metamodels.
* #430529, #427278, #427275, #427273: various tasks, mostly very small,
to improve the Sirius branding, in our features and on the website.
Best regards,
Pierre-Charles David (Sirius co-lead)
