[wtp-pmc] Request for a 0.7 maintenance release

[Jeffrey Liu <jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to request for a 0.7 maintenance
release. The purpose of this request is to deliver a high quality set of
language packs to the WTP community. It can also be used for critical "stop
ship" bugs found in 0.7.

Problem description:

Over the pass week, we have about 50
new translation related bugs opened against WTP (28 major and 20 normal).
These bugs mainly fall into 2 categories, they are: strings that are not
externalized and truncations in the UI. I was able to talk to some the
TVT testers, and the consent is that some of these bugs are high user impact.
For example, a table is truncated in such a way that a user cannot select
anything in the table. This renders the table (or even the wizard) useless.
To help non-English adopt WTP more easily, we should get these bugs fixed.
I've create a query on the bug status page that shows all the translation
related bugs that are still opened[1].

Schedule:

In the pass, other Eclipse projects
have used maintenance releases to roll out fixes for translation bugs.
After talking to people from other projects, here's what they have in plan:

Eclipse 3.1.1 - Fall 2005 (likely end
of Sept) [2]
EMF - Mid to late Sept (after Eclipse
3.1.1)
GEF - Shortly after Eclipse 3.1.1
VE - Weren't able to contact them

I would like to request that we do something
similar. Roll out a 0.7.x maintenance release a week or two after our pre-reqs
release theirs.

Other issues:

1. Creating a maintenance release means
developer will need to retrofit changes from the 0.7 branch to the HEAD
branch. This shouldn't be too hard, and we have to do it sooner or later.
So this should be a good opportunity for us to start working with multiple
code streams.

2. Teach the build script to build from
the 0.7 branch. This should be easy.

3. More testing and etc... If we really
limit ourselves to critical fixes, then this should not introduce too much
churn to the 1.0 release.

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/bugs/bugs.html

[2] http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_maintenance_schedule_3_1_x.html

Thanks,

Jeff