Virgo/Community/Minutes-2017-01-25

Attendees

• Florian Waibel
• GianMaria Romanato
• Violeta Georgieva
• Daniel Marthaler

Topics

• Status of 3.7.0.M04 release

1. Virgo Kernel & Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat can be released
2. Virgo Nano is not starting properly
3. Issues on Bugzilla for 3.7.0.M04 must be closed asap
4. Releasing 3.7.0.M04 on the 26th of January 2017, even if Virgo Nano is not fixed by then

• Community feedback to: Discontinuation of VNF and VJS distributions beginning with the 3.7.0.M04 release
• Scope (Bugzilla entries) for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?classification=RT&list_id=15723305&product=Virgo&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=3.7.0.RC01 3.7.0.RC01 and date

1. Release RC01 as soon as we have GW 3.0.0.RC6 in

• Confirm official release date for 3.7.0.RELEASE of 26th of February
• How to release Virgo Tools 1.5.0?

Actions

Todos Fluffi

• Possibly answer to the forum question about the bundle class loader
• emo@eclipse.org sent 17th of January - (waiting for response) Ask Wayne what needs to be done for a “subproject” release such as Tooling 1.5.0 / Bundlor 1.3 / Examples / Snaps / ... publish answer to Mattermost
• Schedule a review for this release.
• Ask Ivan HowTo release an Eclipse project
• Ask Markus to become official mentor for the Virgo project ;-)
• Answer Eduardo F. - https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/virgo-dev/msg01758.html
• Convert Docbook docuware to Asciidoc and try to include it in the Gradle build
• Check/Prepare the IP Log for 3.7 release (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/rt.virgo/iplog/preview) / https://www.eclipse.org/projects/tools/downloads.php?id=rt.virgo
• Create Bug to track legal notes: https://www.eclipse.org/legal/guidetolegaldoc2.php
• Ask Markus/Tom whether we could ship with a patched Equinox?
• Review patch/problem on Bug 500758 with Tony in January
• Migrate the documentation to gradle build to be able to publish along the artifacts
• Documentation Milestone M04 should be online together with the release of Virgo.
• Investigate Spring Framework Bill of Material (Maybe we can use this new project: https://github.com/spring-gradle-plugins/dependency-management-plugin)

Todos Giamma

• Answer to the forum to J. Sousa and recommend adotpion of latest build
• Get status for next hangout - Keep team updated about the progress of the JUnit4 OSGi runner which may be used for testing Spring bundles. We could run a POC, wrap some Spring tests in a “test bundle” and run them in Virgo.
• Check Virgo Wiki Tooling Page if updating is required, also IDE set-up for contributors
• Virgo Wiki Pages (Committers) document Git branching model using git-flow as suggested by Giamma
• Send out an email to acunote to close the Virgo instance, remove reference

Todos Dani

• Publish Bundlor 1.1.3.M01 to Maven Central
• Include Snaps-Guide in Snaps project build so that Stefan Zugal can improve the documentation
• Try to convert docbook documentation to asciidoc using http://pandoc.org/
• Publish Agenda and decisions to the Virgo Wiki