Dear Technology PMC,
As
I wrote last week, we have identified a serious issue in Neon.1 that
prevents the use of EGit with repositories using HTTP with
authentication. The problem was introduced by MPC's version in Neon.1,
which tried to work around problems caused by EGit's replacement of the
global java.net.Authenticator. Details can be found on bug
http://eclip.se/501000. A new version of MPC that disables the
problematic behavior is available[1]. The fix has been confirmed by
various parties by now.
I have talked with Ian, and we think that
due to the impact on the user community, this is serious enough to ask
for a respin / update of the Neon.1 simultaneous release repository to
make the fixed MPC available to all users via "Check for Updates...".
The consensus on the bug is the same.
So I would like to ask for
the Technology PMC's support for a simrel update. Ian, I believe your
+1 is required here as MPC project lead.
Please note that in
order to provide the MPC update in the simrel repository, the EPP
package features will need to be rebuilt, since MPC is not a root
feature, see
http:// eclip.se/501000#c40. Also, the discussion thread on
the bug by now includes discussion on the original issue, on the
resulting problem in EGit, and on how to best ship the fix. If
preferred, I can open a new bug specifically for the fix that should go
into the requested update, and summarize the relevant information there.
Best
regards,
Carsten Reckord
