Re: [tools-pmc] TCF would like to piggy-back on the Oxygen RC4a respin

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Martin Oberhuber
<mober.at+eclipse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Tools PMC,
>
> The TCF project would like to piggy-back on the Oxygen RC4a respin on
> Tuesday (in case it happens), and requests tools-pmc support for this as per
> the Simrel exception process.
>
> Our rationale:
> When updating our releng / build infrastructure after our Oxygen
> contribution, it turned out that newer build JRE required a newer Tycho,
> which in turn uncovered one invalid pom.xml (that did not cause any issues
> with older Tycho). Bottomline: our binaries contributed to Oxygen are fine,
> but nobody could build it from source unless using Java 7 with Tycho-0.22 .
> This is not a blocker for users (so we'd not request a respin just for
> that). But we'd much appreciate cleaning this up, to make our Oxygen
> binaries consistent with the source builds so we'd like to piggy-back if a
> respin occurs.
>
> TCF is not in any epp package, and I'm not aware of any downstream consumers
> on simrel so the risk should be minimal.
>
> Our updated contribution has been made available as rc4a . A Gerrit for
> simlrel is ready and verified by Simrel Hudson, so this can merge if the
> tools-pmc / planning council agrees on the respin:
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/99564/
>
> I'll be happy to answer any questions, and would like to requests the
> tools-pmc's support at the planning council.

+1 From Tools PMC. Being able to build from source is one of the major
virtues of FOSS.

>
> Thanks!
> Martin
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Nature autodiscovery broken!
> Blocker? - Was: [epp-dev] Oxygen RC4 EPP packages
> To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Respin of RC4 is scheduled for Tuesday, June 20th, if the fix is in and
> no additional blockers have been found by Monday night CET.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
>
> On 16.06.2017 08:59, Andreas Sewe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>> the Oxygen RC4 packages are ready for testing at
>>>
>>>
>>> https://hudson.eclipse.org/packaging/job/oxygen.epp-tycho-build/318/artifact/org.eclipse.epp.packages/archive/
>>
>> while testing the RC4 Java package, I discovered an issue related to the
>> "nature autodiscovery" feature recently introduced (by the Eclipse
>> Marketplace Client?) that I consider a blocker for Oxygen (hence Cc'ing
>> to cross-projects).
>>
>> Creating a new *Java* project with the Eclipse IDE for *Java* Developers
>> complains that it doesn't have support for the Java nature (which it
>> does) and that JDT needs to be installed (which already is). This is
>> obviously not a good first impression.
>>
>> See Bug 518336 [1] for details.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> [1] <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518336>
>>
>>
>>
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Alexander Kurtakov
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