I spoke to John Wiegand today about the
timing of 3.1.1. He described their current schedule as “October or
November”. This implies significant risk of our 0.7.1 slipping into the
rampdown phase for 1.0, and it would be prudent to instead consider shipping 0.7.1
earlier and on top of 3.1.
From:
wtp-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wtp-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Liu
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 1:29
PM
To: wtp-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wtp-pmc] Request for a
0.7 maintenance release
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
