Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Who's +3 again?

["Nick Boldt" <codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a banding exercise, and right now there are
+0, +1, +2, +3 and EPP final bands.
 (my band) = (my dependency with highest band number) + 1

If others agree with this statement (as I do), I'd suggest that the +2 projects who want more time should update the Ganymede project lists [1], [2], [3] with their preference for +3'ness.

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede#Projects
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede/Signoffs#M3_Status
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Template:Ganymede/Signoffs

The caveat here is that if you make yourself a +3 and you have large-scale downstream consumers, you might be impacting them adversely. For example (not to pick on DTP, just to grab something that WTP and TPTP both require)... if DTP decides it's a +3, then everyone that consumes it must also be +3 and we're back where we started with everyone +3-or-more scrambling at the last minute. If projects who had no problem meeting the +2 deadlines stay as +2, then the projects built on top will simply get an extra couple of days' grace.

But if you're the end of a stack and just want more time, there's no harm IMHO in asking for it by upgrading to +3. There's also no harm in releasing early. Because UML2 Tools is a +9 and GMF is a +8, EMF strives to release the day BEFORE +1 so that all the GMF deps can be done sooner. You're not actually losing time by releasing early, you're just shifting it back slightly. 

So, to borrow a line from Indianna Jones 3, choose... choose wisely. ;-)

Nick