Hi Everyone,
There has been much progress for the Long Term Support (LTS) program
at Eclipse on many fronts. This email is intended as a quick update
and map to various resources to find more information.
In no particular order:
1) Draft charter
A draft of a charter
for LTS is available for review.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to reply
to this list to share them.
2) Initiating members
As per our industry
working group process, we require a strategic member to
initiate an IWG. We're fortunate to have IBM, SAP, CA Technologies,
and EclipseSource as initiating members for LTS. Thank you to each
organization for supporting this important initiative.
3) Chairs
Identifying the chair for the IWG is another important requirement
as per our process. Pat Huff from IBM, and Jochen Krause from
EclipseSource/Innopract have tentatively agreed to be the inaugural
co-chairs of the LTS IWG. Thank you both.
4) Project LTS readiness definition
Working with a large team from a diverse set of projects and
organizations, we have created a draft LTS-Readiness
definition. This is a set of requirements that defines whether
a project is ready to be included into the LTS forge or not.
5) Eclipse platform work
We have done much work with the Eclipse platform to help it move
towards achieving LTS-readiness. Notable in this work is the Common
Build Infrastructure (CBI) build for the Eclipse platform.
This work has enabled someone with very little prior experience with
the Eclipse platform to build it for themselves in minutes. Special
thanks to Paul Webster, David Williams, Igor Federenko, and Thanh Ha
for their work here.
6) Release engineer
Speaking of Thanh Ha, I'd like to introduce him as the Eclipse
Foundation's new release engineer. It's coming up on two months
since he started but you'd never know given how fast he's learned so
many things and contributed to the CBI & LTS programs.
7) LTS Forge
One of the important things Thanh has done is set up the LTS forge.
We have a number of important project building regularly in that
forge already. The projects include the many components of the
Eclipse platform, CDT, EGit, JGit, and Mylyn. We will be adding
other projects as they are ready to be included.
We recognize many projects are focused on Juno M7 & SR0 right
now. More on LTS-Readiness soon.
Best regards,
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