Papyrus IC/Architecture/MoM/2018-04-03 Architecture Committee Minutes

Attendees

• Rémi (chair)
• Ernesto (Zeligsoft)
• Keith (OneFact)
• Samuel
• Florian (CEA)

Next Phone call: May 15th, 2018, 4PM

Topics

UML2 And Photon

• https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/modeling-pmc/msg04191.html
  • PIC Architecture Committee decided to help UML2 project staying on simrel. UML2 in Photon
  • Initial evaluation for relevant bugs from Eclipse UML2 Bugzilla with CEA - EclipseSource
    • Triage by interest: must-do / nice to have / no interest
    • File:Bugs UML2 - Photon list.pdf
    • 1st phase achieved (gerrit activated, Tycho based build). Initial set of gerrits reviewed by Kenn
    • Next phase: Photon.0 release. Keen to review all proposed contributions.

Collaborative meetings

• Discontinued?
  • volunteers: Ernesto & Philip

Task Forces

Florian: Next year plan

• Roadmap for Photon (see Photon)
• Next version: 4.0.
  • API need some major improvements
  • Copy and Paste issues (Antonio)
• Currently up-to-date

Philip: DSML task force

•  ?

Philip/Ernesto: Textual / graphical modeling

• No news

Per/Rémi: Dependency management, dependencies from Papyrus

• no update on that task

Release train for Papyrus

Oxygen Plan

• Oxygen.3: released (End of March 2018)
• Oxygen.4 (not in simultaneous release train, only on official Papyrus updates): planned for end of May 2018 Oxygen.4 plan
  • Reminder to update the wiki page

Photon Plan

• M6 done
• M7: Mid-May 2018

Additional topics

• Release engineering
  • Volunteers?
  • No proposals yet. CEA is running the releng on its own

• Release train for Photon +1 (Rémi)
  • Naming Photon+ (Rolling Simultaneous Release) issue: Bug 532220 naming bug & Wiki page
  • Proposal in short:
    • not an official release / year in June + 3 minor release anymore
    • 13 weeks release cycle, with per project API deprecation / evolution policy, etc.
    • May put a lot of charge into projects like UML2 and in Papyrus (1. because of potential API breakage and / or not enough ressources to evolve)

• • Florian
  • several product management and project management
    • technical issues can appear with these changes
    • partners would have to follow the same pace, this could be an issue
    • CEA dev team being working on this
  • Patrick to summarize the ideas and share them with PIC

• Photon & Oxygen: Minor release and API breakage (Ernesto)
  • Brought up by Charles in February
  • This topic came because it could break the Papyrus-RT builds
  • Quentin & Ernesto discussed on the technical aspect
    • Issue from Junit tests => issue mostly resolved (from Photon, JUnit plugins will be released - initial problem fixed)
    • 20 plugins with major API changes
  • Proposal:
    • Papyrus community version?
    • Specific branches for specific subprojects/users
      • To be raised to product management and/or steering committee?