| Re: [platform-update-dev] Call for short-term help |
As an ex-commiter, I will make sure I provide as much insight and expertise about the code and the architecture as I can... Please provide us with your top issues and I will work with the community to solve them... Dejan, if you have a list of top bugs, let us know... Christophe Elek - Senior Software Analyst IBM Rational Serviceability Architect IBM Toronto Lab 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, L6G 1C7 Phone Number: (905) 413-3467 Email: celek@xxxxxxxxxx (Embedded image moved to file: pic19257.gif) Web:http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/ (Embedded image moved to file: pic26255.jpg)http://www.ibm.com/rational/rsdc Dejan Glozic/Toronto/IB M@IBMCA To Sent by: platform-update-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx platform-update-d cc ev-bounces@eclips e.org Subject [platform-update-dev] Call for short-term help 04/11/2007 11:52 AM Please respond to "Eclipse Platform Update component developers list." <platform-update- dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Hello, You are probably aware that a new Provisioning effort is underway in the Equnox Incubator (http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/provisioning/). Ultimately this effort will graduate into a strategic solution for installing and updating bundles of your Eclipse applications. Meanwhile, we have current needs and deliverables (Eclipse 3.3 and Europa release being one of them). For these we must ensure that the current Install/Update code base serves us sufficiently well. You have probably noticed that we have a few high level Update bugs that we need to look at for 3.3, and there are also several lower-level issues that were not looked at in a while. The reason for this is that Install/Update component had a misfortune of loosing most of its active committers. What it means to all of us is that we must be pragmatic when it comes to fixing Update defects: you (community), people who are directly affected (product teams) need to give us a hand by debugging the problem, doing some investigation and suggesting possible patches. The runtime/Equinox team has been proactive in this regard, and we have seen other members of the community (e.g. James D. Miles, Chris Aniszczyk) contribute patches on a regular bases. As Bjorn once said, 'Eclipse is You' :-). While it sounds like a very 'in' thing to say (and Time magazine even used it for their Person of the Year issue), it is literally the case when it comes to Install/Update at the moment. Therefore, if you have a long-standing Update problem and it affects your project or product, spend some time, investigate it and attach a patch and we will make sure it looked over and checked in (but please, don't waste time on fluff or new features - just focus on high-level, important bugs that affect the existing function and the essential usage flows). If you believe that it makes sense for your team to dedicate some cycles and become a committer, that would be fantastic. Again, we are not looking for a 'till death do as part' kind of commitment, just a pragmatic investment in solving your problems of today. Regards, Dejan Glozic, Ph.D. Manager, Eclipse Development 1A D1/R0Q/8200/MKM IBM Canada Ltd. Tel. 905 413-2745 T/L 969-2745 Fax. 905 413-4850 _______________________________________________ platform-update-dev mailing list platform-update-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-update-dev
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