[jbosstools-dev] Target Platform Updates :: It's Time To Test Indigo SR2!

[Nick Boldt]

With Xmas just around the corner, holiday shutdowns coming, and Indigo 
SR2 being released February 24 2012 [1], the runway to get fixes into 
Eclipse, WTP, DTP, BIRT, RSE, Mylyn, etc. is increasingly short.

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Indigo/Simultaneous_Release_Plan#SR2

Based on their RC schedule, and how hard it is to get fixes done during 
the RC cycle, I would say the hard deadline for ANYTHING to be fixed in 
Eclipse.org upstream bits is *January 13*, which means you need to get 
bugs filed, if necessary, at least a week or two before that.

To that end, I'd like to have people start testing their builds locally 
w/ the latest Eclipse Indigo [2] bits.

[2] http://download.eclipse.org/releases/maintenance/

In the next few days, I'll put together a new composite requirements 
site [3] and TP [4] using these updated versions so it'll be easier to 
test w/o being restricted by Eclipse.org mirrors.

[3] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/indigo/SR1/, 
http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/indigo/extras/SR1a/

[4] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/target-platform_3.3.indigo/

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As a reminder, should you feel you need something added to (or updated 
in) the TP or reqs composite sites to facilitate building, running, 
installing, or testing any part of JBoss Tools (or Developer Studio), 
PLEASE ASK FIRST via direct email, mailing list, or JIRA.

We recently found a new requirement on a JDT patch feature, which I 
erroneously added to the TP assuming that it should have been there. I 
tend to assume any new requirements are added intentionally, but we need 
to ensure we're properly communicating so that accidental dependencies 
aren't added and cause build issues.

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For reference, here are the latest updates to the TP over the last 
month, based on svn log data:

11/28: remove org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.core.patch
11/25: add org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.core.patch
11/23: BPEL updated from 0.5 to 0.8
11/07: Mylyn/JIRA added (JBIDE-9351, JBIDE-10094)
10/27: Mylyn
10/26: Mylyn eGit connector (JBDS-1904)
10/25: apache.commons.io 2.0.1 added

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Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat
Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio
http://nick.divbyzero.com