[eclipse.org-members-committers] Upcoming Reviews, October 6-12/2011

[Wayne Beaton <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings folks.

We have a single review this week.

Vex [1] is a set of plug-ins that provide WYSIWYM editing ability for
XML files. This can be used regardless of the XML involved, and uses CSS
stylesheets to provide the formatting for the presentation layer. All
that is needed is a stylesheet and an appropriate XML file to edit. It
hides the XML tags from the user, allow them to have a word processor
like experience but store the information in the native XML format.

I'm testing an extension to the Automated IP Log to include author
information from Git. The extension works by extracting log information
from the Git repositories indicated in the project metadata. It scans
the logs for contributions with an "Author" field that contains
information about a non-committer. It actually works in two stages: the
first stage mines information about commits that have different values
in the "Commit" and "Author" fields (we currently have 55 projects with
at least one commit in this stage); in the second phase, the authors of
those commits are checked against the Eclipse Foundation Database to see
if the author was a committer on the project at commit time.

The revised Automated IP Log is here:

    http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log2.php?projectid=technology.tycho

This is the log for the Tycho project. To test it on your project,
change the projectid field (e.g. '?projectid=rt.virgo', or
'?projectid=rt.virgo,rt.ecf').

Let me know what you think on Bug 327594 [2]. FWIW, I know that it
doesn't work for the EGit and JGit projects.

Note that there will be some duplication of contributions (from both
Bugzilla attachments/records marked iplog+ and Git commit records).
Projects that have been following our guidelines for Handling Git
Contributions [3] will have created Eclipse Bugzilla entries for some of
these commits. I have some thoughts on how we might deal with this
duplication; for now, though, please continue to follow those guidelines.

Thanks,

Wayne

[1] http://eclipse.org/proposals/mylyn.docs.vex/
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=327594
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Handling_Git_Contributions

-- 
Wayne Beaton
The Eclipse Foundation
Twitter: @waynebeaton