Re: [mdt.dev] New Project Plan Format - Problem

["Christian W. Damus" <cdamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Kenn,

As I understand it, the Board has given us projects until the end of  
August to publish our plans so that they can vote on them in September.

In any case, I followed up Nick's suggestion to raise this on the  
original project-plan-XML bugzilla (comment #73).

cW


On 30-Jul-08, at 3:59 PM, Kenn Hussey wrote:

> We have until the end of September to publish the plans... hopefully  
> by
> then the kinks in the new format will have been worked out...
>
> Kenn Hussey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdt.dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mdt.dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Christian W. Damus
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:53 AM
> To: MDT developers
> Subject: [mdt.dev] New Project Plan Format - Problem
>
> Hi,
>
> I have drafted an OCL 1.3/2.0 plan in the new XML format mandated by
> Eclipse:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/www/modeling/mdt/ocl/project-in
> fo/plan.xml?root=Eclipse_Website&content-type=text%2Fplain&view=co
>
> Unfortunately, as the components of MDT are not (yet) recognized by
> the Eclipse Foundation as projects, this plan document isn't
> particularly consumable:  the XSLT simply shows a link to the project-
> plan PHP script.  However, as MDT OCL isn't a project and doesn't have
> the meta-data required to drive the Foundation's common web
> interfaces, this just doesn't work.
>
> I don't see, either, how the MDT project plan will aggregate the
> component plans into its XML plan document, unless perhaps it maps
> components to Themes.  That doesn't seem right, though.
>
> Any ideas out there?  We are supposed to be publishing these plans,
> soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian
>
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> Component Lead, Eclipse MDT OCL and EMF-QTV
> E-mail: cdamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Christian W. Damus
Senior Software Developer, Zeligsoft Inc.
Component Lead, Eclipse MDT OCL and EMF-QTV
E-mail: cdamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx