The
Eclipse Project Handbook
describes our processes in painful detail. If you're
not sure about what you're supposed to do, that is a
good place to start. Please don't be shy to connect
with the PMC via this list. We also have the
incubation mailing list
for questions. If you're really stuck, you can email
emo@xxxxxxxxxxx and
Cydnie and I will take care of you.
All Eclipse Projects are required to engage in a
Release Review before distributing anything called a
"release" to the general community. Distributing
"milestone" or "snapshot" builds, intended for a
more limited audience to gather feedback, during
your release cycle is permitted by the process and
strongly encouraged by the PMC and EMO.
Before your project can engage in a Release
Review, we need to first have all of the
intellectual property taken through the complete IP
Due Diligence process. That is, everything must
either be "license_certified" or "approved" by the
IP Team before you can engage in the Release Review
process.
Note that you absolutely need to create a CQ for
your project's initial contribution and for every
bit of third-party content that your project uses.
Please take a look at your dependencies using "mvn
dependencies:list" or "mvn dependencies:tree" should
help you discover dependencies that you may have
missed (as a general rule, anything that is
"compile" phase is probably a
pre-req dependency)
Regardless of the state of your intellectual
property, if you have not already done so for your
first Eclipse release, please
create a Release record
right now. Set the review date to
December
5/2018, the version to an increment of one of
the patch level over the last release, and the
description to something along the lines of "
First
release from Eclipse. No API or implementation
changes, just new licensing and Maven coordinates."
Note that as a matter of practice you should
create a release record as early in each release
cycle as possible. The IP Team uses the dates for
releases as part of their task prioritization
process. You can change/refine the date as
necessary.
On the newly created release record and click
"Schedule a Release Review for this release" and use
December 5/2018 as the date.
Click the link in "This review is pending;
contact The Eclipse Management Organization to make
it public." to send a note to the EMO. The EMO will
create a Bugzilla record to track the progress of
the release (project leads will automatically be
added in copy).
Wait for the Intellectual Property due diligence
process to complete. Note that the IP Team has made
getting the EE4J Project requests completed a high
priority.
After the IP Team as completed processing
your intellectual property records (CQs), and
everything has either been "approved" or "license
certified", return to the release record and click
"Generate IP Log". Quickly scan the log to make sure
that it looks okay and submit it for review. Do
not submit your IP Log for review until after all
project CQs have been resolved.
Then, click "Send Email to the PMC" with a
request to the PMC for approval of the release and
the corresponding review materials (clicking the
link will form an email with all of the information
that you need). You can do this in parallel with the
IP Log review. The PMC does not need to see the IP
Log, nor do they need to approve it (the IP Team and
EMO will do this).
As the approvals come in, the EMO will update the
tracking record in Bugzilla. When we have everything
that we need, we will turn the release record from
"pending" to "ongoing" and start our part of the
review process.
On the date of the release review, the EMO will
mark the record as "Successful" and update the
tracking bug.
Let me know if you have any questions.
I've set up a call on Friday, November 9/2018.
I'll walk through the process and answer any
questions that you might have. I'm planning a 30
minute call, but have the entire hour blocked off if
we need more time.
Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +16699006833,,939811335# or
+16468769923,,939811335#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number
based on your current location):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 876
9923
Meeting ID: 939 811 335
Thanks,
Wayne
--
Wayne Beaton
Director of Open Source Projects | Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
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