[edt-dev] 0.8.1 Final Daze / Transition from CVS to Git

[Matthew Heitz <mheitz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

EDT developers,


As you know, we're almost done with
the 0.8.1 release.  We plan to finish it this week, though it won't
be officially announced and available until the 27th or so.

Some of us have already been working
on 0.8.2.  When the 0.8.1 build is complete, we'll allow you to commit
changes to CVS for one or two days.  Then CVS will be frozen again
and we'll change our code repository from CVS to Git.  We don't know
exactly when these things will happen, but I'll send you the schedule once
it's finalized.

After we switch to Git, our CVS repository
will remain but it will be read-only.  The history of our files will
be migrated to Git.


I'm making a list of the projects that
are in CVS but are no longer used, so they don't need to be migrated to
Git.  This is my list so far:
   org.eclipse.edt/gen/org.eclipse.edt.gen.java.templates.egl.core
   org.eclipse.edt/widgets/org.eclipse.edt.rui.dojo_0.7.0
   org.eclipse.edt/widgets/org.eclipse.edt.rui.dojo.mobile.0.8.1
   org.eclipse.edt/widgets/org.eclipse.edt.rui.dojo.remote_0.7.0
   org.eclipse.edt/widgets/org.eclipse.edt.rui.dojo.runtime.local_1.6.1
   org.eclipse.edt/widgets/org.eclipse.edt.rui.dojo.runtime.remote_1.6.1
   org.eclipse.edt/widgets/org.eclipse.edt.rui.dojo.widgets_0.7.0
   org.eclipse.edt/widgets/org.eclipse.edt.rui.widgets_0.7.0

I'm not sure if we need these seven
projects:
   org.eclipse.edt/gen/org.eclipse.edt.gen.eck
   org.eclipse.edt/ide/org.eclipse.edt.ide.generator.egl
   org.eclipse.edt/ide/org.eclipse.edt.rui.samples.helloworld_0.7.0
   org.eclipse.edt/samples/org.eclipse.edt.samples
   org.eclipse.edt/tests/org.eclipse.edt.tests.validation
   org.eclipse.edt/tests/smoketest
   org.eclipse.edt/tests/smoketest.eunit.java
Please let me know if we need to migrate
any of them.  They will not be migrated unless someone tells me that
we need them.

Finally, I've learned that some of our
plugins contain a very small number of classes.  This is a bad practice.
 While CVS is open for changes (between the 081 build and the migration
to Git), I plan to move their classes into some other plugin.  These
plugins will not be moved to Git.
   org.eclipse.edt.gen.generator.deployment._javascript_
 (contains one class)
   org.eclipse.edt.gen.generator.egl
 (contains one class)
   org.eclipse.edt.gen.generator.eglsource
 (contains three classes)
   org.eclipse.edt.gen.generator.java
 (contains one class)
   org.eclipse.edt.gen.generator._javascript_
 (contains one class)
Please let me know if there's a reason
why I should not make this change.


  -Matt

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Matt Heitz
Developer, Eclipse EGL Development Tools and IBM Rational Business Developer
http://www.eclipse.org/edt/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/products/rbde/