[e4-dev] 0.9 release plan

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As required by the Eclipse development
process, the e4 project needs a plan in order to have a release. I have
written up a draft e4 plan by starting from the Eclipse project plan and
revising as appropriate with input from McQ:

http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=eclipse.e4

As e4 is a broad community effort, the
plan needs input from everyone involved. In fact there are three areas
of the plan in particular where your input is needed:

Release deliverables:
 - This section describes what
the release looks like. Currently we build a single "master all in
one" zip, so that is the only downloadable deliverable listed. If
you plan to ship other deliverable pieces, please say so. For example,
will there be a separate dowloadable SWT browser edition, or downloadable
demo applications?

Target platforms:
 - This section describes our external
dependencies on OS, JVM, etc. In e4 we will also need to list our dependencies
on other external technologies, such as Flash, _javascript_, etc. If someone
could take a stab at listing "reference platforms" for these
different dependencies outside the JVM, that would be appreciated (technology
names, vendors, and versions that we build/test against). The supported
OS/JVM list is greatly reduced from the Eclipse project plan, reflecting
the fact that we won't be widely testing e4 on the full set of Eclipse
project platforms. If you think an important platform is missing, please
comment. The full set of Eclipse project reference platforms *should* work
fine, but not listing them in the e4 plan reflects lack of dedicated testing
on these other platforms.

Plan items:
 - Currently the plan items listed
there are those from the "Future" section of the Eclipse project
Galileo plan. Some may still be applicable, but others may need to be altered
or removed. Please chime in with additions, changes, or deletions of plan
items.

John