On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:25 AM Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:00 AM Ed Willink <ed.will...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> ASM, Guice and Guava can be accommodated by losing the upper version
>> bound; they appear to have good compatibility for at least my trivial
>> usages. The explicit upper bound is honest in that it indicates not-tested,
>> but a blocker for anyone who wants to try and test it.
>>
>> The real killers for project relengs are the platform's gratuitous
>> removal of IPlatformRunnable, movement to Java 11 BREE coupled with Tycho
>> evolution.
>>
> Exactly, thanks again for proving my point - Java 9 imposed one set of
> changes, Java 11 additional, Java 14 additional, Java 16 additional and
> even more expected with Java 17. With literally 3 people looking at Tycho
> issues with priority being after Eclipse Platform, WildWebDeveloper, M2E,
> Corrosion, Linux Tools and so on and on it's an achievement that Tycho is
> working on so big a number of environments/jvms.
> I want to be perfectly clear about expectations if Tycho is left with
> current manpower - latest Java and latest LTS Java. I know this has
> implications on everyone but my time is as scarce as everyone else's and
> just like everyone else I have to do what I'm paid for - release Eclipse
> platform that supports latest Java and latest LTS Java. And tycho is just a
> means to achieve that!
> I would very much welcome others joining on daily tasks so we share the
> burden and wider compatibility is preserved. I'm willing to transfer
> whatever extra power one thinks I have on any such decision and let that
> person show us (and teach me!) how to achieve better results in current
> circumstances!
>

I forgot to add that transfer of power goes hand in hand with transfer of
duties.


>
> troublesome are the almost six monthly breakages of the EF IT
>> infrastructure as service is 'improved'.
>>
>>     Regards
>>
>>         Ed Willink
>>
>>
>> On 26/03/2021 07:24, Christian Dietrich wrote:
>>
>> yes we can keep it unless some new ASM, Guice, Guava, Junit5 or another
>> "paying attention" topic forces us to act and build milestones and releases
>> with the 3 weeks pressure.
>> Am 26.03.21 um 08:20 schrieb Ed Merks:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I've been tempted for quite some time to make a similar announcement,
>> only for EMF.   I don't believe I will have the resource to get EMF's build
>> working on the new infrastructure, and most certainly I am highly unlikely
>> to do so without some evidence that the cost and effort involved will *not
>> *be born only by me personally (and by the helpful-but-overburdened
>> Foundation Staff):
>>
>>   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=558735#c1
>>
>> I *strongly *recommend to the IDE Working Group that action be taken
>> without further delay.
>>
>>
>> Christian,
>>
>> One thing that I would ask, and strongly suggest for Xtext, is simply to
>> leave your current contribution(s) to SimRel as is for contribution to
>> 2021-06 such that the IDE Working Group has time to take action.   There is
>> no absolute requirement that you must provide a new release, right?
>> Certainly one would hope that it's reasonable to assume that the Platform,
>> and your other dependencies, will remain fully compatible with your most
>> recently release, right?
>>
>> Physically removing the most recent Xtext release from the 2021-06 train
>> is a bit of a bombshell that affects a great many other projects.  Once we
>> drop this bomb, we may as well throw in the towel...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ed
>>
>>
>> On 25.03.2021 13:28, Dietrich, Christian wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i want to inform you that we at itemis will no longer drive the
>> participation of Xtext in the Eclipse simultaneous release beginning with
>> the upcoming 2021-06 release
>> https://blogs.itemis.com/en/xtext-is-leaving-the-eclipse-simultaneous-release
>> <https://blogs.itemis.com/en/xtext-is-leaving-the-eclipse-simultaneous-release>
>> <https://blogs.itemis.com/en/xtext-is-leaving-the-eclipse-simultaneous-release>.
>>
>>
>> As there are currently no other parties with the capacity to take over
>> the work this will result in Xtext leaving the Simrel. This will also
>> affect other projects in the Simrel that consume Xtext like OCL, Xcore,
>> Parsley and parts of GEF as well as the DSL Package in EPP. (and maybe
>> others)
>>
>> Please feel free to join the discussion at
>> https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1961
>> <https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1961>
>> <https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1961>
>>
>> KInd Regards, Christian
>>
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>> Abdelghani El-Kacimi, Wolfgang Neuhaus, Franz-Josef Schuermann
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