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

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay. I'll put something together based on your words below and push it out.

Wayne

Markus Knauer wrote:
> 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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