[wtp-dev] Too few Internal non-API use bugs?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Our 1.5.0 release had 27 plugins
with "internal API violations". 
See http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R1.5/R-1.5.0-200606281455/apiresults/api-violation-summary.html

Our last declared 1.5.1 maintenance
build had 15 plugins with such violations
See http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R1.5/M-1.5.1-200608241726/apiresults/api-violation-summary.html
And, I think 2 of those should not be
on the list, that fixes have been made, but the plugin owners apparently
did not release the fixes? 
wsdl.ui and rdb.connection.ui? 

So, 27 to 13? A reduction of  half
the plugins with violations?  In a maintenance release? 

First, this tells me to say thanks to
everyone making the fixes ... and while I made most of them, I appreciate
everyone else who helped. 

Second, most of these fixes were for
"easy" things, for which there were obvious API alternatives
or commonly used work-arounds (such 
as "copying" strings, instead
of refering to non-api versions of the strings). 

Third ... what the heck happened for
1.5.0 release ... well, I guess I took my eye off the list and just assumed
every component was carefully 
managing their usage. Since that wasn't
the case, I will be focusing on this serioius problem as we finish up 151
and begin 2.0, 

In particular, of the 13 remaining plugins,
I see only 5 or so "[internal api]" bugs opened in WTP.  We
should have at least one bug open 
in WTP for each plugin that shows up
in the violations report, just to explain the usage, and if its really
required, point to the 
feature request we've opened to "fix"
in the future. 

So, maybe the bugs weren't open? Or,
have something other than [internal api] in their subject? 

In either case, we'll start a little
"component owners hot seat" section of the status call, so that
if the bugs are not open by the status call, 
we'll go through the plugins in violation
one by one, and the component owners can explain on the spot. I need to
understand 
these, and what we need from other projects
next release!