Re: [epp-dev] Proposal for EPP schedule

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 20:26, Ian Skerrett wrote:
> I'd like to suggest that the EPP project focuses on producing the four
> packages between now and Europa but without the installer component.   We
> have only three weeks left, so time is very very short, and we need to
> focus on producing high quality, well tested packages.   I would love to
> have the installer included but I just can't see that we have enough time
> to guarantee sufficient testing.
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> The main reason for my suggestion is that we want to use the output from
> EPP for a new download page.   The eclipse download page is the more
> popular page on our site, so everything on that page must be perfect.  
> Hence my suggestion that we focus on getting the right testing done on the
> existing packages that were released yesterday.

This is definitively something that we must discuss in our status call today.

I've learned in the past week that a release review for the new installer code 
is mandatory. Such a release review needs a lot of preparation, a community 
and more code cleanup (e.g. copyright headers, about.html's, ... are still 
missing) - and it needs time (the slides/documents must be ready and 
available one week before the review is held, the voting takes another week 
after the review).
The packages itself doesn't need such a review (AFAIK - please correct me!) as 
they are taken from projects/update sites that already have done their 
release review. But I have to check this first.

So I suggest to use the packages as input for the Europa download page, and 
integrate the installer at a later date. Maybe we can create another updated 
release in July that contains packages with installer. Would this be a 
solution that WE ALL can live with? Dan, Andrey, what's your opinion? I know 
that you made lots of progress in the installer area during the last weeks, 
but is it really ready for the Eclipse download page?

Thoughts, comments?

Markus