Thanks, David. When thinking about plugin developers, I find it is useful to 
further divide that group into those working on eclipse.org projects and the 
rest. Those working on eclipse.org projects, especially those also 
participating in the simultaneous release, need to track integration builds of 
their dependencies, know where those come from, etc. The rest could certainly 
benefit from being able to get everything they need (including source) from the 
simultaneous release repo. 

 

I will start opening bugs for projects that don’t contribute source as I need 
it for the Ultimate Edition. Let me know if the Planning Council needs further 
input from me on this topic.

 

Thanks,

 

- Konstantin

 

 

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I'll add to Planning Council Agenda, but you might "work you point of view" 
through your Planning Council rep ... with a specific proposal. I'm not sure 
"EPP" vs. "Common Repo" changes that much (just in my opinion) since the common 
repo has been seen as primarily for "end users" (granted, some end users are 
"developers of plugins") so it'd be nice to have concise clear statement of 
what projects "should do", in general. But, yes, you (anyone) can always ask 
specific projects to do it differently ... we have no prohibition against it. I 
know for WTP, many years ago, it was decided not to include source, simply 
because it was felt developers "knew how to get the source" from WTP's project 
and no reason to burden everyone else with it. [And, believe me, the Planning 
Council has discussed many times and could never even come up with a good 
definition of "SDK" :)  ... well, you know, one that applied to all Eclipse 
projects.]. 

This history is one of the reasons we (me especially) recommend people do not 
"build against" the common repo ... but, instead build against each individual 
project they want ... but I know that advise usually goes unheeded (but was 
happy when I once saw you give the same advice :) 

Thanks for your efforts, 




From:        "Konstantin Komissarchik" <konstantin.komissarc...@oracle.com> 
To:        "'Cross project issues'" <cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org>, 
Date:        08/01/2013 02:18 PM 
Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Source code in simrel aggregate 
repo 
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I suspect that what has happened in at least some of the cases is that the 
requirements of the corresponding EPP package drove what was contributed to the 
simrel repository. A natural effect, but not ideal, since the user base for the 
simrel repo is more diverse in their requirements. 
  
Should this continue to be at project’s discretion or should contributing 
source to simrel repo be a requirement? I doubt that projects would object to 
contributing source if asked, but maybe it would be better spelled out up 
front. 
  
- Konstantin 
  
  
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This has always been viewed to be the contributing project's decision. (Which 
... is true in general ... some projects do not contribute ALL their features 
to common repo; such as perhaps not examples, perhaps not some of the rarer 
functions, etc.). I know for WTP, it was thought best to minimize download (so 
no source ... last I knew), since it was intended for people developing web 
apps ... not for people developing plugins for WTP. 

Hope that answers what you were asking. 
 




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Date:        08/01/2013 12:58 PM 
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As part of working on the definition for Eclipse Ultimate Edition, I have 
discovered that a number of prominent projects do not contribute source to the 
simrel repo. Before I start opening bugs, is there prior context or discussion 
on whether or not source code should be in the simrel repo? Note that I am not 
asking whether source code should be in a particular package as that’s 
dependent on the user that the package is targeting. 
 
Thanks, 
 
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