[bpmn2-modeler-dev] Status for Sept 21, 2012

[Bob Brodt <bbrodt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

After a hectic week of bug fixing, the first release candidate (0.1.0-RC1) is still on schedule for September 28, 2012. Here is a summary of the work that has been going on since last week:

* Editor input handling has been changed to support the more generic IStorageEditorInput. This allows the editor to open string streams provided by, for example, webdav services and repositories such as guvnor. Unfortunately this also introduced a couple of new bugs that completely broke the editor on Linux. Thanks to the user community for finding this so quickly!

* The editor now creates temporary files in the system temp directory instead of creating "hidden" project-relative files (the mysterious ".bpmn" folder created in your project whenever you opened a file). The temp directory name is retrieved from the Java system property "java.io.tmpdir" which can be configured using a system environment variable, or can be passed as a JRE argument in your eclipse.ini file.

* Several bugs in the extension point API have been fixed and the API has been stabilized. Thanks Dominik, for helping with testing and flushing out a lot of these issues.

* The following bugzilla reports have been resolved - just follow the links if you need more details:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389905
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=390227
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389668
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355675
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378094
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=385433

This week's builds can still be found here [1] and here [2].

On the to-do list for next week:

* Prepare for RC1 release (prepare Release Review docs and, of course, testing, testing and more testing).

* Assuming all goes well with testing, we will send the EMO a project Release Review request for version 0.1.0, available October 15, 2012.


[1] http://download.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/site/
[2] http://download.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/site-helios/


"No wine before its time"

________________________
Robert ("Bob") Brodt
Senior Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat