Re: [eclipse-pmc] Mars (4.5) Release Review Material

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1, I read through the material and it
looks good to me. Thanks for putting this together, Dani. A couple of comments:

• I believe this is the first release that will not run at all on Java 6, so I think that is worth noting in the "Architectural Issues" section.
• As a response to Martin's PDE comment, I think it is fair to have a comment that PDE Build is in maintenance mode and is no longer used to build the platform itself. I may even be worth saying it is entirely deprecated.
• In the security section, "Eclipse top-level continues " should say either "Eclipse top-level project continues" or "Eclipse project continues"

John



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Hi Dani,
 
Great work – very informational
while not too verbose, and well structured. I like it a lot, thanks to
the author(s) for great work, +1 approved !
 
Some minor comments – mostly
cosmetic:
 
1.       Clicking
the planurl (“Mars Plan”) doesn’t work for me, perhaps you need https://www
now instead of http://www
? This URL worked for me though the styling looks a bit basic: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_5.xml

2.       In
the overview, you mention “performance and stability” though later on
you also mention “usability” as a theme. To me, bringing back Perspective
Customization/Export/Import in Mars is a significant achievement in the
Usability sector so I think it would make sense exposing that a bit more
prominently. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378811
isn’t even mentioned
in the N&N or the Plan at the moment ?!?
a.       Might
make sense wording the overview “For more details, see the Mars Plan and
the New & Noteworthy below.” 

3.       Architectural
Issues section: “More APIs have been released” in this context sounds
like it’s a problem or a bad thing ? But likely wasn’t meant that way.
Perhaps move the “More APIs” sentence under the “API Certification”
headline ?

4.       Non-Code
Aspects section: “Open accessibility
bugs” would be good if
hyperlinked to a bugzilla query

5.       Usability
section: “Eclipse User Interface
Guidelines” should be
a clickable hyperlink
 
6.       End
of Life section: The “deprecated API removals” hyperlink points to cgit
master, would it make sense pointing to a tag or branch instead for 4.5
?
a.       In
the documented, consider changing the headline “API removals after June
2015” to “Planned API removals after June 2015”
Since people may read this document at a later time, it should be clear
what has been done versus what was planned

7.       Communities
section – Would be good to have clickable hyperlinks for   http://planeteclipse.org
, http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/IRC
and http://stackoverflow.com

8.       PDE
– would it make sense to talk about the situation in “PDE Build” versus
Maven / Tycho, in the “Architectural Issues” section ? – There is some
confusion around these two in the wider Plugin Developers Community I think
(“Is PDE Build deprecated? Is it still supported ? Do I have to switch
to Tycho?”) .
 
 
Thanks,
Martin
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On Behalf Of Daniel Megert
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 10:49 PM
To: eclipse-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [eclipse-pmc] Mars (4.5) Release Review Material
 
Dear PMC members,

please review the Mars
(4.5) release review material and
respond with feedback to this list. Please also respond whether you approve
or decline the review (needed by the EMO) by June 3,

NOTE: The IP Log is not yet attached as it is still under review by the
Eclipse IP staff and a late CQ is under review.

Thanks, 
Dani_______________________________________________
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