| [cross-project-issues-dev] Staging for SimRel 2023-12 M3 is Complete |
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We are up to 38 duplicates. This is clearly going completely in the wrong direction.
Some of these duplicates are to be expected because they involve
major version differences (API breakage) that cannot necessarily
be accommodated by the consumers. But many are different minor
versions and are present simply because way too many projects are
just not bothering to contribute new builds. This is super unfair
to the great many projects that are actively updating their
dependencies. This will need to change in the next release
cycle. I will be preparing a list of projects that will be
removed. I will send an announcement, with a link to the issue.
But it's clear that folks often don't read what I write and folks
often don't even respond on issues that are opened for their
projects. This is beyond unacceptable not just for SimRel but for
an Eclipse project in general.
This prototype report computes the liveliness of each project:
https://github.com/merks/test/blob/master/report.md
I will use this to compile my hit list. For those of you contributing stale content and that locks in stale older dependencies, you are at the top of my hit list for removal. If you are downstream from such project, you need to consider not being downstream from that project or consider contributing to that project. For example, it appears that Graphiti is in a coma and that we might need to pull the plug:
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/graphiti/graphiti/-/issues/3
Regards,
Ed