[mdt.dev] Re: MDT Newsgroup Build Announcements (was Re: MDT Project Pro

[Kenneth Hussey <khussey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick,

The issue is that OCL and EODM are no
longer EMFT components... so they should not be publicized as if they were.
We need to do whatever necessary to make it obvious that these components
have moved - links pointing to new site would be fine in the short term...

Cheers,

Kenn Hussey

Senior Software Developer
Rational Software, IBM Software Group

770 Palladium Drive
Kanata, Ontario, K2V 1C8

T: (613) 599-3980  F: (613) 599-3912

Nick Boldt/Toronto/IBM

11/08/2006 06:02 PM

To	Kenneth Hussey/Ottawa/IBM
cc	MDT developers <mdt.dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject	Re: MDT Newsgroup Build Announcements (was Re: MDT Project Provisioned)Link

Well, due to interconnection between
download and build pages, I'm hesitant to trash working emft pages until
I have replacements ready. Do you want me to remove EODM and OCL from the
EMFT site (nav, home, etc.) ? Or update links to point to the new site?

What's the issue with being able to
get EODM and OCL bits from two different places?

--
Nick Boldt :: Software Developer, IBM Toronto Lab
Eclipse Modeling Framework :: http://eclipse.org/emf
905/413/4308 (t/l 969) :: codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx

Kenneth Hussey/Ottawa/IBM

11/08/2006 02:58 PM

To	Nick Boldt/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
cc	MDT developers <mdt.dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject	Re: MDT Newsgroup Build Announcements (was Re: MDT Project Provisioned)Link

Nick,

I think it makes sense to announce the
builds in the component-specific newsgroups.

I assume that EODM and OCL will disappear
from the EMFT Web site in the very near future... right?

Cheers,

Kenn Hussey

Senior Software Developer
Rational Software, IBM Software Group

770 Palladium Drive
Kanata, Ontario, K2V 1C8

T: (613) 599-3980  F: (613) 599-3912

Nick Boldt/Toronto/IBM

11/08/2006 02:45 PM

To	Kenneth Hussey/Ottawa/IBM
cc	MDT developers <mdt.dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject	MDT Newsgroup Build Announcements (was Re: MDT Project Provisioned)Link

Regarding build announcements in newsgroups:

UML2 (now UML2 UML) will have to update
its promoteToEclipse.uml2.properties file so that announcements will go
to the new newsgroup. 

For the projects that are currently
in two places (EMFT and MDT)... like EODM and OCL... I presume you'll want
to do the same, so that your announcements will be in the new newsgroup
instead of the old. Please update your properties file in CVS then extract
it to the correct place on the build server (eg., /home/www-data/build/emft/scripts/).
Ping me if you have problems or questions with doing so. Christian, since
at the moment all four of your projects share a properties file, you'll
most likely want to split ocl into its own since the other three (query,
validation, transaction) haven't moved and should therfore remain unchanged).


Finally, for XSD... I'm not sure what
the gameplan is there. For the moment, until XSD gets its own build, I
guess we can continue to do announcements in the eclipse.tools.emf newsgroup?

Oh, and just to throw in a 'what if'
option... perhaps it would be cleaner/better/more centralized to have all
announcements going into eclipse.modeling.mdt instead of the subprojects'
newsgroups? That's certainly doable too.

Cheers,

--
Nick Boldt :: Software Developer, IBM Toronto Lab
Eclipse Modeling Framework :: http://eclipse.org/emf
905/413/4308 (t/l 969) :: codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx

Kenneth Hussey/Ottawa/IBM

11/08/2006 08:37 AM

To	MDT developers <mdt.dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
cc	Nick Boldt/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
Subject	MDT Project Provisioned

Team,

Initial provisioning of the MDT project
is now (finally) complete! The website is publicly available at http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt
(or http://www.eclipse.org/mdt).

A newsgroup has been created for each
(sub)component - eclipse.modeling.mdt.eodm, eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2.ocl,
eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2.uml, eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2.tools, and eclipse.modeling.mdt.xsd.
As component owners, it will be your responsibility to moderate these specific
newsgroups. The eclipse.tools.uml2 legacy newsgroup has been locked down
(redirecting users to the new group) and the new eclipse.modeling.mdt.xsd
newsgroup has been made read-only (redirecting users to the old group,
at least for now). Christian and Gordon, in case you haven't already, please
make an announcement on the EMFT newsgroup to redirect your clients to
the new groups.

Bugzilla inbox accounts have also been
set up for each (sub)component - mdt-releng-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx, mdt-website-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx,
mdt-eodm-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx, mdt-uml2-ocl-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx, mdt-uml2-uml-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx,
mdt-uml2-tools-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx, and mdt-xsd-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx. Please
edit your Bugzilla preferences so that you are watching the appropriate
account(s).

Note that Nick has been kind enough
to set up Wikis for each (sub)component - please start evolving these to
provide appropriate documentation, FAQs, etc. to your user communities.
As always, if you have any questions, let us know!

Cheers,

Kenn Hussey

Senior Software Developer
Rational Software, IBM Software Group

770 Palladium Drive
Kanata, Ontario, K2V 1C8

T: (613) 599-3980  F: (613) 599-3912