[eclipse.org-planning-council] Status of SR2 respin plan

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues, 

Just wanted to keep you all up-to-date
on the latest plan for Juno SR2 respin. 

First, my little "surgical"
manipulation didn't work but by the time I tried, I was mostly curious.
I think Konstantin had a good point that the aggregator is an easy way
to make sure no one else in repo slipped in a hard requirement on EGit
2.3. While there's other ways to tell, I also became concerned about that
approach because a) The aggregator makes the "categories" too,
and apparently there were changes there too, and b) it is common "practice"
(or, best practice, if not a common) that when composites are used, each
sub-repo of the composite is itself "well formed" which it would
not be if we simply removed EGit. (Or, at least, would be hard to tell,
and that is what the b3 aggregator does easily). 

So, after deciding to use the "make
an aggregation from the aggregation" approach, it was just a question
of which version of EGit to use. I went with 2.2 (instead of 2.1) since
there was a request from WTP's PMC lead (who also maintains the JEE package)
and others, on cross-project list. That, and even if we "tightened
the rules" about minor updates during maintenance releases, EGit's
2.2. release would almost qualify, except they missed RC1 and RC2. (I added
some ideas for "tightening the rules" in the summary of our "emergency
meeting" [1] ... we can discuss at next meeting (or, at least before
next maintenance release :)  

I've opened bug 401639 to document the
mechanics of the respin, but if any of you have any concerns/comments about
this slightly updated plan, please say. We can always hold another emergency
meeting if you'd like? :)  My only concern at this point is if there's
some "greedy requirement" or or something that gets pulled in,
that might effect packages ... unlikely, but ... we'll know on Monday,
or Tuesday. 

In all seriousness, thanks for your
help sorting through this complicated situation. 


[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Planning_Council/February_22_2013#Summary
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=401639