Re: [pde-dev] preparing to graduate API tooling

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

- Do you expect to have version checking
tools as well?  That is, checking that the version numbers were properly
incremented based on the analyzed changes.

- Will you support headless build time
analysis?

Jeff

Darin Wright/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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PMC and others, 

We are preparing to graduate the API tooling component from the PDE incubator
to the Eclipse project. Our top level wiki page can be found here:

        http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE_UI_Incubator_ApiTools

I have requested a graduation review with the EMO. For the 3.4 release
we will be focused on delivering the following critical features:

* Javadoc tags for documenting API rules in classes, interfaces, and methods
(effectively replaces the old 'component.xml') 
* A user interface to define and manage "API profiles" (used
for comparison purposes) 
* An integrated builder that reports API usage and binary compatibility
errors with a previous release 
* Support to flag and quick fix missing @since tags and incorrect bundle/plug-in
version numbers 
* Workspace and project specific settings for API problem severities
* Support to filter/suppress known/allowed API breakage problems

We will also investigate other feature such as: 

* Searching API profiles for use of API and non-API code
* Analyzing versions of prerequisite bundles to determine which are "API
compatible" in terms of use (helps determine minimal required versions
of prerequisite bundles) 

Upon successful graduation, we will want to create some new bundles in
the Eclipse project and assign commit rights to developers from the incubator
project. 

Let me know if you have any questions. 

Thanks, 

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