[mdt.dev] Fw: New release notes engine and how this affects your workflo

[Kenneth Hussey <khussey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenn Hussey

Senior Software Developer
Rational Software, IBM Software Group

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Neil Skrypuch/Toronto/IBM

11/30/2006 10:42 AM

To	Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, Nick Boldt/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, Dave Steinberg/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, Marcelo Paternostro/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, Dmitry Denisov/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, Kenneth Hussey/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA, Lei L Zhang/China/IBM@IBMCN, Paul Elder/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA, Christian Damus/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA, mtaal@xxxxxxxxx, stepper@xxxxxxxxxx, jcheuoua@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject	New release notes engine and how this affects your workflow

The new release notes engine that I've
built is now up and has replaced the old engine.

The left nav for EMF and MDT has been
updated accordingly, the EMFT nav has a patch that Nick can commit when
he gets in, but here's some direct links:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/news/relnotes.php
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/news/relnotes.php
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php

One of the benefits of this new engine
is that you shouldn't need to create duplicate bugs for the maintenance
stream anymore, simply tag the commit to HEAD and to Rx_y_maintenance with
the same bug id, and the new release notes will sort things out based on
where it was commited to in CVS. For example:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php?project=validation&version=1.1M3
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php?project=validation&version=M200611161604
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/searchcvs.php?q=159212

Another benefit of the engine is that
you can now see the release notes for a specific build rather than just
an entire release cycle, for example:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/news/relnotes.php?project=emf&version=2.3.0M3
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/news/relnotes.php?project=uml2-uml&version=I200604211313
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/news/relnotes.php?project=validation&version=M200608171956

Overall, the release notes should be
more accurate (less duplicates, branch crossing, etc), faster, and less
work for committers (and website maintainers) now.

Nick: Could you pass this along to anyone
from MDT.* and EMFT.* that I missed?

- Neil