Releng, yes. (Throws my *red* hat into the ring.) :D

Fixing things broken due to API changes... maybe, but unlikely. I'm not a
DTP dev/expert/user, but I do know my way around Tycho. :)

Nick

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Wayne Beaton <
[email protected]> wrote:

> No. We'll start that process in January in preparation for the M5 build.
>
> Besides, removing it breaks Web Tools (at least).
>
> I'm pretty sure that we have a volunteer to take over releng.
>
> Wayne
>
> On Dec 18, 2017 9:48 AM, "Doug Schaefer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We should probably start planning on the removal of DTP now. It’s not
>> clear it has the resources to even do builds going forward.
>>
>>
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Daniel
>> Megert
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 18, 2017 4:48 AM
>> *To:* Cross project issues <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Can DTP join EGit in Oxygen.2
>> respin?
>>
>>
>>
>> It's good enough to just do a build. The API was deprecated for ten years
>> already. After removing it for Oxygen (4.7) a simple build would have
>> failed with a compile error.
>>
>> Dani
>>
>>
>>
>> From:        "Torkild U. Resheim" <[email protected]>
>> To:        Cross project issues <[email protected]>
>> Date:        16.12.2017 21:11
>> Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Can DTP join EGit in
>> Oxygen.2 respin?
>> Sent by:        [email protected]
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, I think that’s a good idea Stephan. One could possibly set up the
>> build to fail when using deprecated API, in order to get an early warning.
>> I’m not aware of a way of making Tycho do so though. I guess having a
>> no-warnings policy and set the compiler up to fail on warnings is an option.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Torkild
>>
>> > 16. des. 2017 kl. 17:54 skrev Stephan Herrmann <
>> [email protected]>:
>> >
>> > Another option could be: even "inactive" projects could be required,
>> > to perform builds against each SimRel milestone, even when contributing
>> > a previous version. This should ensure that code still works (compiles
>> > and passes tests) against updated dependencies.
>> >
>> > I don't think this should be much of a burden on "maintainers".
>> >
>> > Stephan
>>
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