[tools-pmc] Requesting exception for patch feature shipped by Object Tea

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Tools PMC,
(Cc: our Mentors)

Bug 330288 [1], which is actually a technical bug in the b3 aggregator
has triggered a discussion in bug 330312 [2], which may or may not
significantly influence the future of the Object Teams project.

I've actively tried to trigger this discussion for a long time and I appreciate
that it is happening now.
However, if the rules proposed by Gunnar will be enforced in the near
future, perhaps as a pre-requisiste for participating in the release train,
this would potentially rule out our (Object Teams) participation in the train.

Therefor, and in order to keep special case considerations out off that
discussion, I precautionarily request an exception from those future rules.
If relevant I will ask you (the Tools PMC) to forward this request to the 
Planning Council.

I believe I have sufficient arguments for justifying this exception.
Please let me know, where and how I should communicate these arguments.

Thanks for considering,
Stephan


[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=330288
     Indigo repository does not include all the versions of jdt.core

[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=330312
     Rules for project patches in the train