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Re: [emf-dev] EMF 2.3.3 GA?
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I disagree. It just shows a maintenance branch that no one really cares
about, and an untended bit of releng work on my part that should have
been done this summer.
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As to your off-topic request, wanting to do XSD 2.5 builds independent
of EMF 2.5 is one thing. Supporting maintenance branches from 2 years
ago is another kettle of funky fish, and I'd be VERY happy if the
official Modeling Project policy on maintenance aligned with what the
Eclipse Platform does: you get from June to February for maintenance;
after that, maintenance is closed so that the focus can be on new
development in the HEAD branch.
If you have a compelling customer need for why XSD has to be built
independent of EMF -- despite its pedigree of being a cross-project
build since its 1.x days, when the EMF project was in Tools and the XSD
project was in Technology -- please share it.
Then, since you appear to be bubbling over with spare time, please begin
the work required to split the XSD tests & examples from the EMF ones so
that there are no criss-crossing dependencies between the projects. XSD
can depend on EMF, or EMF on XSD, but for separate builds they cannot
both depend on each other. I'm not |33+ enough, or free-time-equipped
enough, to be able to do that work; nor do I see a compelling technical
or consumer reason for it. (Eclipse policies are meant to empower
customers, developers, and Member companies, not to introduce extra
administrivia for its own sake.)
When that's done, let me know and I'll re-evaluate the proposal to split
EMF and XSD into two builds.
'Till then,
Nick
Kenn Hussey wrote:
This is case in point for the ability to do XSD builds/releases independently of EMF.
Kenn Hussey
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-----Original Message-----
From: emf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:emf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Boldt
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:28 PM
To: Eclipse Modelling Framework
Subject: [emf-dev] EMF 2.3.3 GA?
Guys,
Back on 2008/03/12, we released an M build for EMF/XSD 2.3.3 to fix a
single XSD bug. It's 8 months later and I guess no one has really been
beating down the door for this fix, since we never released it in an R
build.
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/news/relnotes.php?project=xsd&version=2.3.x
Is it time to do one simply to make the fix available to people who only
watch the update sites, and to end the maintenance of EMF 2.3.x?
I'd say yes -- any objections to spinning a final 2.3.3 GA next week?
Nick
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Nick Boldt :: http://wiki.eclipse.org/User:Nickb
Release Engineer :: Eclipse Modeling & Dash CBI
