I have made this bug couple of weeks ago.
Bug 549542 - Make a "contribute using gerrit" wikipage for a new contributor https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=549542 It has some useful links and it also mentions that repository locations should have link to "contribute using gerrit for a new user" wikipage. The bug has some useful links as of now but it should ideally be consolidated for better use. Regards, Vikas From: Ed Merks <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 08/13/2019 06:22 PM Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [platform-dev] Need some more current pointers for getting started on JDT projects Sent by: [email protected] Lars, Comments below. On 13.08.2019 12:15, Lars Vogel wrote: Hi Ed, > with the right URLs for Gerrit access (which are?) If you clone via Eclipse these URLs are automatically configured. If you go here: https://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git/ It shows several choices: git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git https://git.eclipse.org/r/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core ssh://[email protected]:29418/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core Not all of these will provide Gerrit access, right? So one must choose the correct one, which is not the first one. > avoiding projects nested in tests Definitely annoying, I agree. For platform.ui test data I removed the .project files for them so that this is no an issue for this repo. IMHO JDT could do the same. Getting all 37 repos to clean up such problems is a challenge... And one most hope no one is compelled to introduce a project at the root of the repo too. > only the core platform developers feel so inclined to keep Lets not discuss that again. :-) No, it's clearly better to not respond to at all to all the changes I made to address the outstanding concerns that were raised. But I'd prefer that newcomers not be steered down the dark path. > only real problem here is that Mylyn is messed up because the project Then I wrote my answer, I did not know that and wanted to help Richard to get started. It sounded to me like you wanted to help him to avoid using Oomph. IMHO Mylyn should finally remove their views from the default Java perspective (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=480696). If someone agrees, please speak up in the bug. Indeed, and I did. Best regards, Lars On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:06 PM Ed Merks <[email protected]> wrote: Lars, Not only do you need to clone the relevant repos, (which ones?), with the right URLs for Gerrit access (which are?), but you need to import the projects from them, at which point you need to figure out which ones are sensible to import, avoiding projects nested in tests that aren't intended to really be independent projects in the workspace. The whole manual process is painful at best and only the core platform developers feel so inclined to keep following that painful approach. But I don't feel it's a good idea to to suggest that this is an approach that a novice should follow. In the end, the only real problem here is that Mylyn is messed up because the project is relatively inactive and is apparently not keeping up with the times, so best just to close this view. I fear that at some point Mylyn will just stop working entirely. The Bugzilla integration has been working poorly for quite some time... Regards, Ed On 13.08.2019 10:54, Lars Vogel wrote: Hi Richard, as an alternative to Oomph you can use the latest I-Build from https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads and clone the relevant repos. The only additional setup is the target platform setup. See https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlatformDevelopment/article.html#exericse-eclipse-user-creation-and-gerrit-server-configuration for the process. Setup usually takes 10-20 min. Best regards, Lars On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:41 AM Richard Steiger < [email protected]> wrote: Hi Ed, Taking your advice, I've been trying to follow ( https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Platform_SDK_Provisioning), and it went pretty much along the Tutorial's path, until the provisioned IDE was launched, at which point, the Task List view shows and clicking Details popped-open the attached Error Log. At this point, I have no idea in what state the SDK's internal invariants are, hence what my next step should be, obvious choices being 1. Is the IDE hosed and I need to start over? 2. can this be ignored and all will be well going forward? 3. is there a voodoo ritual that will unwedge and allow proceeding? Kudos to you for whatever role you played in implementing the installer! Great tool! Much thanks, -rjs On 8/12/2019 12:58 AM, Ed Merks wrote: Richard, As Paul suggests, if you really want to clone the repos and work with (or see all) the source, better to use the installer. There is a tutorial describing how the create an installation with the complete platform SDK: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Platform_SDK_Provisioning Likely this is overkill for your purpose, but I find this an extremely useful resource to have around. It can help you find out how other things are already implemented in the platform and provides search capabilities not possible in any other way. For example, if I see a string some where in some dialog or elsewhere in the UI, I can search all the source to find where that is specified, e.g., often in a properties file. Then I can figure out the name of that property and can search for all uses of that property name in the *.java file files. Typically this will be some static final constant, and then I can open a call hierarchy on that constant to find all the places that its used. The advantage of having all the source is that a constant's value (if it's really a static constant with a constant expression), gets inlined by the compiler, so you cannot find uses of the static constants in other .class files. But with the source available, you can find the uses of constants in other *.java files in the workspace as well. So probably best not to include all the projects from the tutorial because that takes very long to set up, but following the tutorial you can go back to the previous page of the installer and select the subset of projects likely to be useful, e.g., the JDT projects and the various platform UI projects. Best of luck with your explorations. Cheers, Ed On 12.08.2019 09:38, Paul Pazderski wrote: You don't need to clone/import Platform projects to work on JDT. If compilation failed you might not have a correct target platform because the target platform is what is used to resolve dependencies. Also even if most Platform or JDT projects contain pom.xml files you should import them as existing Eclipse projects. I would recommend you to try Oomph setup (Eclipse Installer). https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ * In Eclipse Installer select advanced mode * select Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers (Latest) * on the next page you can select JDT projects and any other projects you are interested Notes on some of your other points: * If you get a timeout while cloning you can try it again. Those errors are usually temporarily. * The URLs on the Git Workflow page look outdated. In general Eclipse git repos are listed at https://git.eclipse.org/c/ and you can find clone URLs if you select a repo. * Regards the using http: as anonymous. You can clone from https: as anonymous. Anonymous only means you do not provide your username. (as required for ssh clone) Best regards Paul PS: found a wiki page for Eclipse SDK Oomph setup. https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Platform_SDK_Provisioning Maybe that helps too. Am 12.08.2019 um 09:04 schrieb Richard Steiger: [FYI, despite having reported and done a bit of investigation on https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518095 , I'm still a total eclipse noob, so please go easy on anything stupid below.] I have a few JDT experiments ("hacks") I want to try-out, and have been trying to follow the instructions in the various dev resources and guides, such as * eclipse.org/jdt/core/dev.php * wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core_Committer_FAQ * https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core_Programmer_Guide * eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/13/ * and numerous others. The central problem (that's blocking me) is the fact that none of the above appear to be both current and correct, compounded by the fact that none of the docs have overt last-modified dates, nor major release level ranges. I therefore invested a fair amount of time trying to build a JDT dev project going down multiple routes, only to discover that each was effectively an abandoned gopher-hole. In more detail: * I tried to clone the repos listed in https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.jdt.core ; determined that maven can build all modules from the command-line with the -Pbuild-individual-bundles profile, but have yet to successfully import the modules into eclipse as a set of maven projects, since the project can't be compiled without the core eclipse infrastructure jars; attempting to extract them from the parent pom is a total crap-shoot, given its inherent complexity (else I might be on my way to at least prototyping the hacks, but miles from creating even a personal release); * I also tried cloning the repose listed in https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Git_Workflows (using http: as anonymous as instructed); the first 3 clones worked, but the next several crapped-out with timeouts, premature EOFs, or other faults; url #6 (*ssh:// [email protected]:29418/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git* ) with the magic *29418 <ssh://[email protected]:29418/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git> * segment alludes to this link being release-specific (viewing History doesn't pin-point what release the page presents, but the latest entry is back to '16 * I was initially excited to find eclipse.platform.common-I20190808-1800, then tracked it to https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.platform , only to find it's either not indexed there, or might be stale. Any advice or live/good links to Getting Started docs would be most appreciated. 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