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RE: [epf-dev] Well Done - EPF 1.2 is out
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Per
and everyone on the team,
Congratulations! This is a major step.
Thanks,
Kirti
Hi,
I want to congratulate every body to
yesterday's release of EPF 1.2, which you can download on http://www.eclipse.org/epf/downloads/tool/epf1.2.0_downloads.php
Thanks you all for the hard work.
- EPF 1.2 contains 2 components: OpenUP 1.0 and
EPF Composer 1.2.
- 29 committers and 13 contributors built the
product.
- 631 bugs and enhancements were done to EPF
Composer, and 416 bugs and enhancements to OpenUP.
EPF Composer 1.2 - New Features and Key
Improvements
- Improved Diagram Editor
- Diagram editor has been completely
reimplemented.
- Provides swimlanes, control flow labels,
free-form drawing, and font styles.
- Files can be saved in GIF, JPG, or BMP format.
- Improved Rich Text Editor
- Font family and size can be changed.
- Content cut from Microsoft Word can be pasted
as plain text.
- Links and images can be added in the HTML
view.
- Improved HTML error markers and correction
features.
- Improved Configuration Editor
- Processes can be fine-tuned by adding or
removing categorized elements.
- Improved configuration error reporting for
Method Configurations and Method Libraries.
- Current view is highlighted in configuration
editor.
- Configuration views can be ordered.
- Improved Process Editor
- Activities are displayed with indented and
outdented elements.
- All tasks at any level can be suppressed.
- Activities can have multiple descriptors.
- Additional platform support
- Vista
- Internet Explorer 7
- Mozilla FireFox 2
- Subversion
- Eclipse 3.3
- Other Improvements
- New plug-in naming convention allows
plug-ins to be displayed in hierarchical lists.
- Published sites on application servers
can implement server-based search.
- GUIDs are no longer present in
published filenames.
- A new variability type is provided:
Extends and Replaces.
- Elements in categories can be ordered
alphabetically, manually, or by type.
OpenUP 1.0 - Key
Characteristics
- Scope: OpenUP aims at being
minimal and complete, focusing on only fundamental content
required for a development process that can be used as-is for
specific contexts. This means that we have on purpose de-scoped
many content areas, including environment, advanced configuration
management, GUI prototyping, database refactoring, and
model-driven development, among others. Those and many other
content areas may later be added as plug-ins extending OpenUP.
While de-scoping we have ensured that the resulting process is
complete enough to be applied by a team to build a software
application.
- Field testing: OpenUP captures
the vast experience of its authors on real projects and borrows
from many different processes, including IBM Rational Unified
Process, other variants of the Unified Process, DSDM, XP, Scrum,
Eclipse Way, Agile Model-Driven Development, and the experience of
contributors from a broad cross-section of environments. The
content of OpenUP 1.0 has been written from scratch to provide a
concise and well integrated process that takes an integrated,
team-based and stakeholder focused approach that provides a fresh
perspective on software development. OpenUP is stable enough to be
used as is by project teams, and it will continue to evolve as
teams adopt it and provide feedback.
- Extensibility: Customizations
via extensibility (plug-ins) are encouraged to ease maintenance
when new versions of OpenUP are released. However, we expect to
change the structure of process elements in OpenUP for the next
release to address scalability. This could mean that some
restructuring of your plug-in may be required after OpenUP has
been refactored.
- Consistency: OpenUP has been
collectively written by many people from a dozen or so
organizations. However, we have firmly pursued consistency in
style of writing and depth of content through copy-editing,
published authoring guidelines and extensive
reviews.
This is a
major step forward for the EPF project. We have something to be very
proud over!
Looking
forward, we brainstormed yesterday about future potential
enhancements, and it is obvious that we have many potential exciting
things to work on, including:
- Leverage Wiki technology
- Release Scrum 1.0
- Release XP 1.0
- Refactoring and broadening of
OpenUP content
We
invite you and your friends and colleagues to work on these and many
other exciting capabilities moving forward.
Again, thank you all for the hard work, now
let's go out and help organizations harvest the benefits of what we
have built!
Per
Kroll
Project Lead: Eclipse Process Framework
Rational
Software, IBM Corp
(M)
408-219-2963
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