WTP 2015-01-22

WTP Development Status Meeting

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

• Upcoming schedule

1/29/2015 - Status meeting

1/29/2015 - WTP 3.7 M5 candidate I build smoke/declare

1/29/2015 - WTP 3.6.3 (Luna SC2 RC2) candidate build smoke/declare

WTP Calendar

(Weekly Google Calendar)

For Luna overall dates, see the Simultaneous Release Calendar

Release / Build status

WTP 3.6.3: Luna SR2

• Official Luna SR2 schedule

3.6.3 Schedule

1/29 Luna SR2 RC2 candidate

2/05 Luna SR2 RC3 candidate - start PMC +2 approval

2/12 Luna SR2 RC4 candidate - start PMC +3 approval

• Luna SR2 GA: 2/27/2015

3.6.3 Builds

• Smoke Test Results

WTP 3.7.0: Mars

• Mars schedule
• Top level plan here
• Release documents ready for review -

3.7.0 Schedule

01/22 I build smoke/declare

01/29 M5 I build smoke/declare

Mars M5 2/6/2015

3.7.0 Builds

• Smoke Test Results

Bug and Feature Highlights

Focus on Quality

• Improve:

• Major or higher severity bugs by project (This week - 157, last week - 153)

• Targeted to Future (candidates for severity downgrade?) (Total - 69, last week - 69)

• Triage:

• Untargeted bugs and enhancements with patches attached over 7 days old (This week - 56, Last week - 56)
• Untargeted severity "Major" and higher bugs opened over 7 days ago (This week - 82, Last week - 80)
• Options:

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

Release Bug Review

Bugs targeted to 3.6.3

Mars targeted bugs

Blockers, Hot-Bugs, Hot-Features

Blocker and Critical

Hotbugs

Hotfeatures

Hotfeatures - triaged with helpwanted

Project scrum section

• Each project answers
  • What are you working on?
  • What are you planning for next week?

WTP Common Tools

Roberto: fixed bug 362114

WTP EJB & Java EE Tools

Roberto: Fixed bug 446076, bug 319387 and bug 350972.

Server Tools

• This week: Fixed bug 457857
• Next week: TBD

Other business - Long term tracking items

• The EMO is assembling a "Great Fixes" promotion for Mars which will start shortly after M5.
  • multiple two-week cycles; at the beginning of each cycle, we will pick ~20 bugs, primarily from Platform and Web Tools, and encourage contributors to submit patches/fixes on those bugs over the two week period.
  • We'll repeat this up to M7. There will be prizes.
  • Participation from us to make this work... Possibly review current "help wanted" bugs - be responsive to contributions.(Some work up front - but possibly huge benefit gaining additional contributors.
  • Project leads - please send me (Chuck) email if you cannot participate.

• JSDT request for additional dependencies
  • Status?
    • An issue is opened in BugZilla: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=457483 - Move JGit and EGit to offset+1 on release train

• Toplevel webtools project access
  • Sent note to clarify process - get Victor and Carl access to webtools - any status change?
    • Raghunathan Srinivasan explained on how to switch the Project Plans to Mars stream https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/wtp-pmc/msg02123.html
    • He's also suggested to open a bug and attach the patch for the Project Plan, so he (or any other committer) can merge it into webtools project.

• Gerrit adoption
  • Still pending for JavaEE project

• CBI -
  • All open CBI bugs
  • Eclipse Common Build Infrastructure home

• Proposal to merge EJB project into Java EE project
  • Restructuring docs still in progress

References

Also, see

• WTP Git Usage/Discussion page

• New Help for Old Friends

• Provisional API

Kepler release retrospective

Standard Format Plans

WTP 3.6.x maintenance release plan

how/when to branch code?

IP Logs selector

See also the WTP Meeting Archive-Reference Page.