Andrew,
We have collectively created a great cathedral, but when one
looks closely at the bricks, it's also a house of cards. Small
teams with no funding currently keep the cards in place. Pull a
card off the top, and the cathedral will be less pretty. Pull
card out from lower down and the edifice crumbles.
One really has to ask, why should the UML "team" fix problems for
free when there are multi-billion dollar/euro corporations using
it without contributing a penny? It's completely beyond
dysfunctional.
Thanks for being responsive. In the best case, your
contributions don't transitively depend on BIRT's unsigned
contributions...
Regards,
Ed
On 06.12.2019 20:03, Andrew Johnson
wrote:
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 18:38:24
+0100
From: Ed Merks
To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:
Fred,
We're definitely on the path to greatness again.? Many teams
have taken
action so the RC1 report is much improved:
https://download.eclipse.org/oomph/archive/reports/download.eclipse.org/releases/2019-12/http___download.eclipse.org_releases_2019-12_201912061000.html
Special thanks to the Eclipse Collections team who I know
invested
significant time.
There are unfortunately some hold-outs that continue to
reflect poorly
on our group's results:
These outstanding bugs are open for each of the bad license
problems
because it appears that these contributors are not reading
cross-projects:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553879
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553523
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553880
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553881
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553882
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553883
*Please pay attention t4me, uml2, m2e, m2e-wtp, mylyn docs,
and xwt teams.*
Also, given that the Reporting package has been removed I
would
recommend removing BIRT itself from SimRel.?? This content is
more than
two years old with bad licenses and with the only remaining
unsigned
content. ? I don't hold out hope that there will be a new
build so I've
*not *opened a Bugzilla. *
*
*
*
*Does BIRT removal affect anyone?*
Regards,
Ed
Yes,
Eclipse
Memory Analyzer uses BIRT for graphing of memory usage. We would
not have
any pie charts if BIRT was removed, both dynamic charts in the
overview
pane and HTML charts in reports. The pie charts shown on our
home page
https://www.eclipse.org/mat/
and here https://www.eclipse.org/mat/about/overview.png
and here https://help.eclipse.org/2019-09/topic/org.eclipse.mat.ui.help/tasks/listbiggestobjects.html
is generated by BIRT.
Fortunately
the
graphing is in a separate feature, so it would not break the
rest of the
tool, but it is useful for us. We only have a small team and
don't have
the time or expertise to use a new graphing package. If it has
to be removed
then we need plenty of notice, and ideally some help in writing
code to
use a replacement. Please keep BIRT.
Thanks,
Andrew
Johnson
Committer,
Eclipse
Memory Analyzer project
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