Re: [epp-dev] Status of Galileo M5 builds

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like it if you have your committer hat on... yes, I would be very
thankful if you could do this. I already added a few words to
http://www.eclipse.org/epp/download.php, but this is probably not the
place where everybody expects the milestone status.

Thanks,
Markus

2009/3/2 Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> It'd still be nice to see a note on the website that indicates this to the
> average consumer.
>
> FWIW, one of the reasons why Eric was invited to join the Technology PMC is
> because he primarily looks at the projects from the outside-in. If Eric is
> having troubles or concerns about this, then there's a good chance that a
> significant part of our community is also having trouble with this.
>
> Putting my project committer hat on... would you like me to try and add a
> few words to the site describing the issue?
>
> Wayne
>
> Markus Knauer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> the communication is not that bad... ;-) Maybe you missed an important
>> email from January 7th that I sent to different mailing lists, such as
>> cross-projects, planning-council, etc. ("EPP planning update for
>> Galileo"):
>>
>>
>>>
>>> This year we are going to change to use p2 to build the packages.
>>> We will also be changing how the packages are defined to use the
>>> PDE product file format. The plan is to have both these changes
>>> done and an initial build completed by EPP M5.
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately this took longer than I expected and after going a step
>> into the wrong direction, I think we found a p2 way to build the
>> packages that is easier for us (and the package maintainers). There
>> are still some things to work out, but I hope to have packages
>> available until the end of this week.
>>
>> Markus
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/2 Eric Rizzo <erizzo-eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>>
>>> Two questions about Galileo M5 builds:
>>> 1) what is the status? The Galileo wiki page
>>> (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Galileo_Simultaneous_Release#Milestones_and_Release_Candidates)
>>> says they were supposed to be available more than 2 weeks ago.
>>>
>>> 2) WHY is there no information available on the EPP home page or the wiki
>>> about the status? That is unacceptable, especially since the EPP page has a
>>> link to download "milestones" but it points to the Ganymede SR2 release.
>>>
>>> More generally, the EPP team is doing a very poor job of communicating to
>>> the user community. Putting my Technology PMC hat on, this is something that
>>> must be corrected.
>>>
>>> Eric
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