| Hi David
Whether we graduate now or remain in incubation until Buildship is included in Mars with SR1 in fall is not critical to us.
But, we really want this to be 1.0 - not 0.9. We feel the project is mature from a technical perspective. We have added certain types of high-level functionality early and since then we have improved, polished, and fine-tuned that functionality based on our own experience and based on the feedback from the community. This is reflected in new Gradle versions, new Tooling Commons versions, and new Buildship versions. Personal feedback/input/reports came from companies/people like XText, Vogella, RedHat who I respect highly. We are ready for 1.0.
Regards, Etienne
I hope other PMC members take a look at
this request, and chime in, but I'll make some high level comments.
I certainly have no objections to the
project releasing, but given the version number of "1.0", I assume
this review is not only for release, but also to graduate from incubation.
Do you, (project lead and mentors) really
think the project is ready to be a graduated, "stand alone" project,
without continued mentorship?
I know I'm old-school, but would list
the following references. I wonder if you've read them?
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Process_Guidelines/What_is_Incubation
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Incubation_Phase
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Criteria_for_Graduating_from_Incubation_Phase_to_Mature_Phase
From what I can see in the write-up,
I don't really see it.
I will admit I am biased, since I'm
not sure how any project can prove "ready to graduate" after
only 2 months at Eclipse.
And, this project is obviously a special
case, and perhaps does not fit into any Eclipse criteria (reference points)
that I allows me to make a judgment?
Here's some things I found anomalous:
- 69 bugs open and many of them fixed
(that's good) but seemed that most were opened by 2 or 3 people (not strong
evidence of "a community", in other words).
[I know in the past, you've claimed
to have a community "outside of Eclipse" ... and if that's part
of the justification, then details should be given in the documentation,
such as pointers to another bug tracking
system? (Not sure that's good, to have another build tracking system ...
just saying, if there's something "outside" of Eclipse that demonstrates,
readiness to graduate, then I think
should be included.]
- You had 4 "milestone builds"
but they were a week apart. That's not normally what we would call a "milestone"
at Eclipse, so wonder what your definition is. Do you plan to continue
to have weekly "milestones"?
If so, would be good to cover that,
and define what that means, in your release/graduation review.
Given our history, about the release
train, I was afraid to say anything, for fear of giving the wrong impression
of being "not supportive" or "in the way".
But, I do really do mean these remarks
as constructive.
And, I feel a responsibility to "treat
all projects equally" and these are questions and things I would look
at for any graduating project.
And, since no other PMC members said
anything ... thought I should say something.
Hope you find my comments at least a
little helpful, and again, would welcome comments from other PMC members.
Thanks,
From:
Etienne Studer <etienne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
06/12/2015 06:39 PM
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Request for approval of Buildship 1.0
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Hi
I would like to ask for review/approval of the release review documentation
of Buildship 1.0:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.buildship/reviews/1.0-release-review
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