That's great news! Congrats Fred! :-)
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Fred Bricon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > due to personal reasons, m2eclipse-wtp has not been very active for the last > few months. I'm happy to inform you these times are over. > As a matter of fact, I was hired by Red Hat to work on the Jboss Tools and > Developer Studio Team on April 1st. As part of my assignments, > I'll dedicate a fair amount of time to work on m2eclipse-wtp, in order to, > well, make it better. > Recent talks with the WTP team showed folks at eclipse have a great interest > in seeing the m2eclipse/integration improve. > This means whenever the maven integration is limited by WTP itself, we'll > work in concert with the WTP team to make it work, when possible. > > Now, in the near future, I plan to release a 0.12 version of m2eclipse-wtp, > before the end of April. Along with a few bugfixes, > this version will bring web resources filtering capabilities to eclipse. > This should be the last version compatible with m2e-core 0.12.x > > The following version - 0.13 - will be aligned with m2e-core 0.13. Along > with an increased stability, It'll introduce web overlay support, > the most requested feature in m2eclipse-wtp JIRA. The overlay feature will > need to leverage some API introduced in WTP 3.2 (Helios), > hence will require eclipse 3.6 or 3.7 to work. It will be released in June, > in the same time frame as Eclipse 3.7 Indigo. > > Now some of you know m2eclipse-wtp has been plagued for several years now > with random crashes occurring during project import, > (see [1], [2], [3]). It seems the WTP configuration doesn't complete > normally but stays silent. NPEs occur later on, > when the code is relying on that missing configuration. This has proven > impossible to reproduce so far. as the same set of projects > would behave differently on different workspaces. > In order to fix this, I need your help, you as a community : whoever can > reproduce reliably these problems during import, using a clean set of > projects > (i.e. without any eclipse metadata -.classpath, .project, ./settings/), > please try the latest CI built m2eclipse-wtp 0.12.x > I've added some mildly *aggressive* logging, around dependency > configuration, so whenever you see a crash, > please report it in [3] and attach the content of your > workspace/.metadata/.log file. Hopefully, this should give us some leads. > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > > Fred Bricon > > PS: I would like to thank Eugene Kuleshov, Jason Van Zyl, Igor Fedorenko and > Max Andersen for their support all over the past 3 years, > without them, I wouldn't be paid to have fun at Red Hat > > [1] https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MECLIPSEWTP-3 > [2] https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MECLIPSEWTP-14 > [3] https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MECLIPSEWTP-41 > [4] > https://repository.sonatype.org/content/sites/forge-sites/m2eclipse-wtp/0.12.0/N/ > > -- > "Have you tried turning it off and on again" - The IT Crowd > > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users _______________________________________________ m2e-users mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users
