WTP 2009-03-05

WTP Development Status Meeting

Attendees

Project Leads Konstantin Tim Nitin Chuck Kaloyan Raghu Neil David Philippe

Committers Bob Carl Dave Naci Larry Kate Angel Y Valentin Keith Gary Paul Nick Gerry Gabriel Kiril

Friends Chris Eric Elson

Note: feel free to correct any errors/omissions in above attendance record.

Announcements And Special Reports

• Daylight savings time switch on Sunday (at least, in North America)

• No builds on Sunday, for Eclipse.org infrastructure work.

Focus on Quality (Neil)

• Concurrency discussion
• Focus Item:

• Untargeted bugs with patches attached opened before October 1st, 2008 (Last week 47 ; Currently ~ 39)
• Options:

• Mark invalid patches as obsolete
• Target bugs to a release or "future" if not a current release

• Upcoming Focus item
• Past Focus Items

• Untargeted severity "Major" and higher bugs opened before June 1st, 2008 (64, 36, 21, 9)
• Options:

• Target to a specific release or "future" if planning to fix but not in the next release
• Adjust severity as appropriate

WTP 3.0.5

Pending.

WTP 3.1

• Ready to declare weekly build?

WTP Smoke Test Results R31 030509

• Before M6, remember to list exceptions to feature-freeze-by-M6.
  • First, mark for PMC approval (just using flag and email addresses, no whiteboard based summaries).
  • One approval is enough. Once approved, list it in last section of

http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_3.1_Ramp_down_Plan_for_Galileo

like we did for

http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_3.0_Ramp_down_Plan_for_Ganymede

Issues to watch moving up to M6 prereqs

• Common Navigator changes: may change again in M6. See bug 252293: LabelProviders do not obey override rules
• JDT Compiler changes from I20090217-2200: eclipse-dev post

Schedule

Our schedule, based on Platform's proposed schedule.

Normally, our milestone are one week after the Platform's delivery. Exceptions noted below.

3.0.1 Early Maintenance Release Aug 15

M1 -> Aug 22 (extra week added so not to overlap maintenance release)

3.0.2 Coordinated Maintenance Release Sep 24

M2 -> Sept 26 (extra week added so not to overlap maintenance release) (updated)

M3 -> Nov 7 (short milestone, since "making up" for added week above)

3.0.3 Early Maintenance Release Nov 14

M4 -> Dec 19

M5 -> Feb 6

3.0.4 Coordinated Maintenance Release Feb 25

(EclipseCon March 23-27)

M6 -> Mar 20 Feature Complete, API Freeze, UI Freeze, NLS, Accessibility

M7 -> May 8 Performance tuning, documentation, bug fixing

RC1 -> May 22 Serious bugs only, focus on stability.

RC2 -> May 29 WTP will likely not participate in an RC2, based on feedback from last year that RC2 came too soon, needed more fixing, less testing

RC3 -> Jun 5 Very serious bugs only.

RC4 -> Jun 12 Very very serious bugs only.

RC5 -> Jun 19 Hopefully no changes from RC4. Prepare web pages, update sites, etc.

GA -> Jun 24

Other business

Bob Fraser and Nova the look and feel: (see bug 261721)

Advanced Topics:

Follow-up discussion on Concurrency discussion.

Has anyone looked at EMF Transactions framework?

References

See also the WTP Meeting Archive-Reference Page.