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[eclipse.org-planning-council] Fw: Regression in Luna SR1, due to "Platform Runtime Binary" regression, may be worthy of respin

Fellow Planning Council Members,

I've just sent this not to Eclipse PMC ... but expect this to be a "rapidly developing story" today, so wanted to make Planning Council aware of it at the same time, and begin to solicit your requirements and advice on the best course of action. I believe the attached note (and all the bugs linked to other bugs) contain all the information that's needed, but we should also get some input from "webmasters", since I believe there is a new, just discovered, issue with our "Mac Signing Service" that we could "fix now" or "fix later". Their input might impact which course of action there is the best one to take.

Thanks for any help or advice on what's best for our user community and the needs of our adopters.



----- Forwarded by David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM on 09/25/2014 06:35 AM -----

From:        David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM
To:        eclipse-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Date:        09/25/2014 06:35 AM
Subject:        Regression in Luna SR1, due to "Platform Runtime Binary" regression, may be worthy of respin




Eclipse PMC,

There's been some late-breaking regressions found in EPP packages, which, at their root, are (partially) due to a regression in Eclipse Platform Runtime. (no regression with SDK, but even there, it will be effected by new Apple requirements for signing apps for 10.9.5).

This regression concerns Macs only and is related to the Info.plist file.

Plus, while investigating that, I've discovered there are new signing requirements for Mac OS X 10.9.5 and higher. While that OS version has only been out a week or two ... it has been no secret it's changing and we may look pretty poor if "Eclipse.app" suddenly stops working, after people upgrade to 10.9.5. (Though, would still work, from command line, which I suspect is why none of us noticed it, until now).

I have opened a "central" bug to discuss what options we have for Luna SR1 (Bug 445064 ) as well as what to do for Mars M2, which has same issues (Bug 445062 ).

I have taken the liberty of starting a maintenance rebuild, which is nearly done building. And will soon start re-building the Sim. Release repo (where, only the Eclipse and Equinox contributions will change) ... but can always "throw them away" depending on if the PMC (or Planning Council) wants to take some other action. And/or "through them away" and do all over again, if the webmasters say they can fix the new signing requirements issue this morning. [The new signing requirements is a pretty sticky issue, since if I am reading it right, we should actually go "back in time" and re-sign existing, old releases as well, for them to work on 10.9.5! -- in other words, a lot of work -- for someone].

I'll be sending a note to Planning Council "in parallel", just for efficiency, but its my belief the "first decision" should come from the PMC.

Your advice welcome,

Thanks,


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