WTP 2010-10-14

WTP Development Status Meeting

Attendees

Project Leads Carl Tim Keith Nitin Chuck Kaloyan Raghu Neil David

Committers Bob Konstantin Chris Dave Larry Kate Angel Valentin Paul Nick Gabriel Eric Rob Sam

Friends Elson Ian Aidyl

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

Remember, any committer can add an agenda item. Typically, short announcements or news items go in the "Announcements" section at the beginning. Longer items or issues requiring discussion should go in the "Other business" section at end.

Announcements And Special Reports

• Cool stuff coming up:

ESE 2010

RTP DemoCamp

• The new OSGi Enterprise Tools proposal (finally) went public, with discussion forum created.

WTP Calendar

(Weekly Google Calendar updated through June, 2010)

For Indigo/Helios overall dates, see a Simultaneous Release Calendar

WTP 3.2.3

3.2.3 builds are running on R3_2_maintenance maps (and R2_3_maintenance for Dali)

Still needs work on releng tests and exact distribution zips

Smoke tests and declared M builds will resume in ... ?

See Carl's proposal.

Nitin proposed starting on 10/29.

Oct 29: WTP 3.2.3 M build 
Nov 5:  WTP 3.2.3 M build
Nov 5:  WTP 3.3.0 S build (M3)
Nov 19: WTP 3.2.3 M build
Dec 3: WTP 3.2.3 M build
Dec 9: WTP 3.3.0 S build (M4)
Dec 17: WTP 3.2.3 M build

1/7  WTP 3.2.3 M build
1/14 WTP 3.2.3 M build (Helios SR2 RC1) (start PMC +1)
1/21 WTP 3.2.3 M build
1/28 WTP 3.2.3 M build (Helios SR2 RC2) (start PMC +2) 

2/4  WTP 3.2.3 M build (Helios SR2 RC3) (start PMC +3) 
2/4  WTP 3.3.0 S build (M5)
2/11 WTP 3.2.3 M build (Helios SR2 RC4)

3/11 WTP 3.3.0 S build (M6)

WTP 3.3.0

• Ready to declare latest build?

Planning

• Be sure to read/review Eclipse Platform plan

• Project Leads: See subproject plan documents under standard-project-plans\indigo\

• Tip while writing Planning document: be sure to use '&' in place of merely '&' in URL queries

• Initial Planning document by M2

• Iterate/Review plans by M3

• Final Plans by M4

• Lets review Web Tools Platform Plans

• WTP Common Tools
• Dali Java Persistence Tools
• EJB Tools
• Java EE Tools
• JavaScript Development Tools
• JSF Tools
• Server Tools
• Source Editing
• Web Services
• WTP Releng

Themes

• improve Java EE 6 support

• e4 (Eclipse 4.1) tolerance (no exploitation of non compatible function planned)

• Objective is to work with both Platform 3.7 and 4.1 (with only one set of compiled code ... compiled against 3.7)

See briefest Eclipse 4.0 intro. One thing I forgot there, was a pointer to e4-dev mailing list ... that's were Eclipse 4.0 builds are currently discussed, announced (in addition to e4-only topics).

Other Candidate Themes?

Anyone interested in these? Resources available? Do they cross projects, or just enhancement to one or two?

• Maven enablement support (at least make more friendly for maven users, if not direct support)
• OSGi enterprise support
• Any items from "top 10" list of problems to focus on. deadlocks? performance? modularity? api? test coverage?
• ... ?

Schedule

8/13 WTP M1

9/24 WTP M2

11/4 WTP M3

Other business

• Do we need a feature patch in webtools/helios/repository for bug 321602. Is it a blocker? (in effect) Is it a regression? (since which release?)

Is a regression since Galileo ... just not noticed in Helios initial release. Starts to effect performance with as few as 3 or so projects. Will investigate.

[No action yet]

• Final? status of archived repo: I did separate code and tests repositories, zipped repos now distinct.

• p2 infused builds, taking info account "history" of previous builds is nearing completion. See WTP/Build/Accounting_for_history_during_builds.

• committer-to-committer question on XML Schema Content Model API?

References

Also, see

WTP 3.2.x maintenance release plan

how/when to branch code?

WTP_3.2_Ramp_down_Plan_for_Helios

IP Logs selector

WTP Helios retrospective.

See also the WTP Meeting Archive-Reference Page.