[cross-project-issues-dev] status of the help center

2024-02-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann via cross-project-issues-dev
Will https://help.eclipse.org be updated with content for 2024-03? If so, also https://www.eclipse.org/documentation/ needs a refresh (already one release behind). Also I'd like to know the schedule of such update, because a N&N entry of mine (web version) wants to link into javadoc that shou

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS support plugin discontinuation - SimRel build changes needed

2023-01-03 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I don't think the major-minor discussion (interesting as it may be) is of any relevance here, because: * The only grace period I could find concerns API removal and that is not controlled by number of releases but by number of years [1] * The code change in question didn't touch any true API.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Sorry, entering a bug into the product JDT has been disabled.,

2022-04-17 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 17.04.22 12:46, Ed Merks wrote: The message could be improved by redirecting here: https://github.com/eclipse-jdt#reporting-issues It sounds like the PMI needs attention too... see https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/1186 Anybody with a bookmark on bugs.eclipse.org or

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Open Software without Free Trade.

2022-03-01 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Let me add a general word of caution: Your intentions to show solidarity with Ukraine totally make sense - from a German point of view, from a western point of view. I'd much hope this would be the unamimous position, but we shouldn't presume so in our global community. In our community we

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] git rollback?

2021-08-04 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I pushed a branch commit that successfully refreshed everything on the branch with the result that the IT team now need to resolve a merge of the rolled back copy, the incremental backed up history and the post 'no-outage' changes.     Regards         Ed Willink On 04/08/2021 02

[cross-project-issues-dev] git rollback?

2021-08-03 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Has the jdt.core git been rolled back? On https://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git/log/ I see master at https://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git/commit/?id=0bfd2bfeaa2c2165c0cebe570d6bfdb416aff602 (from 2021-07-26). But at least two bugs have commits later than that: https:

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [cbi-dev] Building SimRel with Tycho for 2021-03

2020-11-27 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I won't comment on the case of SimRel, as I no longer have any stakes in it, but let me remind you: If the goal is to retire the CBI aggregator, then the migration is not done before also the tool chain for publishing Eclipse artifacts to Maven Central is re-written, too. Just saying, Stepha

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Simultaneous Release Page 2020-09

2020-08-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Object Teams will no longer participate in Simrel, but release on its own schedule moving forward. I have already removed objectteams.aggrcon early in the cycle [1]. Please remove it from your list. thanks, Stephan [1] https://git.eclipse.org/c/simrel/org.eclipse.simrel.build.git/commit/?id=

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Commits Fail to Find ECA

2020-08-22 Thread Stephan Herrmann
My ECA seems to be gone, too (according to accounts.eclipse.org). Stephan On 22.08.20 13:16, Matthias Sohn wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:04 AM Ed Merks > wrote: I have this failure trying to commit: Repository ssh://eme...@git.eclipse.org:29418/emf/org.e

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 2020-06 Release

2020-05-21 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Object Teams will ship the service release 2.8.1: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.8.1-2020-06 thanks, Stephan On 20.05.20 17:59, Wayne Beaton wrote: Hey folks! I've created the record for the 2020-06 Simultaneous Release

[cross-project-issues-dev] simrel.runaggregator.pipeline disabled

2020-03-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I see the pipeline [1] disabled. Is this on purpose? Stephan [1] https://ci.eclipse.org/simrel/job/simrel.runaggregator.pipeline/ ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org To unsubscribe from this list, visit https

[cross-project-issues-dev] weird MPC versions causing grief

2020-02-20 Thread Stephan Herrmann
We've been getting some desperate bug reports about failing installations, all mentioning that mpc artifacts cannot be found. This already happened with version 1.7.7 but today I found some weirdness regarding version 1.8.1: Eclipse fails to update saying: No repository found containing: osgi.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [WARNING] SimRel Headed Off the Tracks

2020-01-30 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 30.01.20 13:58, Ed Merks wrote: On 30.01.2020 11:53, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: Well, focus on "what" is quite important as I still haven't seen anywhere written what exactly is needed for the "who" decides to take EPP. There won't be any "who" until "what" is clearly defined. That is inde

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [WARNING] SimRel Headed Off the Tracks

2020-01-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Thanks, Ed, for raising these concerns. The thread is already at a volume which makes it hard to digest, I can only hope I got the essence of what everybody is thinking. One way I could interpret the situation is: It takes a very small number of qualified people to herd the train - full-time

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] LSP4E: A Problem Waiting to Happen?

2019-12-08 Thread Stephan Herrmann
thanks for nagging :) While we are at it, is anybody using validation from the aggregation editor?? Reason for asking: whenever I try that, it aborts with this message: Unable to load repository https://archive.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R3.2/C3.2.0/I-C3.2.0-20100614204142/repository

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] The Eclipse IDE 2019-06 release is available now!

2019-06-20 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 19.06.19 16:11, Ed Merks wrote: Fred, I was successful installing the Eclipse IDE for Java product with the latest installer, the latest repos, and the latest product catalog. I'm not having success installing via Oomph. Is it just me, is it Oomph or a problem in the repo? Oomph is not

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Projects participating in 2019-06

2019-06-04 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Object Teams is contributing version 2.7.4 (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.7.4-2019-06) thanks, Stephan On 03.06.19 20:34, Wayne Beaton wrote: I've updated the project participation list to reflect what I believ

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Eclipse and Equinox M2

2019-05-22 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Yes, that's intended. The Eclipse project contributed a build that has not undergone the full milestone procedure (AFAIK this rule applies to all M2 since the switch to the new cadence). Retention of milestone builds is a separate issue, but since the bits are contained in the simrel repo ther

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Simrel Version issue - Object Teams

2019-04-16 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Thanks for the heads-up The Object Teams contribution has been updated and re-enabled. Since nothing related has changed in the Object Teams build for a long time, and since failures also started occurring during the Object Teams build just now, I have the feeling that p2 resolution / constrai

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] imRel 2019-03 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available

2019-03-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
The NumberFormatException looks like https://bugs.eclipse.org/544860 which is verified fixed in RC2 best, Stephan On 09.03.19 18:22, Eike Stepper wrote: Hi, As Patrick found out earlier there's definitely a typo in compositeArtifacts.jar. I've asked someone to call up Fred. I could work ar

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] User-friendly Eclipse platform for evolving Java

2018-12-16 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I agree with Ed that there is much room for improvement, or: opportunity to help our users. I suggest to separate 2 discussions for now: (1) How can Eclipse itself be made more stable to be runnable on more versions of Java without hiccups like experienced by Code Recommenders, Mylyn etc? (2)

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Incompatible / incomplete update of tycho 1.3.0-SNAPSHOT?

2018-10-02 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Turns out, all JDT/Core tycho builds are affected, even after many retries. And I assume many other builds will be, too. I filed https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539733 Stephan On 02.10.2018 18:35, Mickael Istria wrote: Hi Stephan, On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 6:21 PM Stephan Herrmann

[cross-project-issues-dev] Incompatible / incomplete update of tycho 1.3.0-SNAPSHOT?

2018-10-02 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Just now I started seeing the following exception in builds: 18:11:08 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.eclipse.tycho.p2.metadata.DependencyMetadataGenerator.generateMetadata(Lorg/eclipse/tycho/p2/metadata/IArtifactFacade;Ljava/util/List;Lorg/eclipse/tycho/core/resolver

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams participation in SimRel 2018-09

2018-07-15 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Object Teams will participate in SimRel 2018-09 with a 2.7.1 bugfix release [1] at it's usual +2 offset. best, Stephan [1] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.7.1 ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-is

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Gerrit Builds fail with Unknown host download.eclipse.org

2018-06-29 Thread stephan . herrmann
The SecurityException is the same symptom as https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536445 and https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1231 Stephan Am 2018-06-29 16:35, schrieb Mollik, Ralf: > Hi all, > > the name resolution is working again - now I get > > [WARNING] Error injecting:

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Which version of pack200 to avoid "Unable to unpack artifact ..."?

2018-05-15 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Nevermind, just some fallout from my (involuntary) attempts to switch to the jar signing web server ... On 15.05.2018 23:02, Stephan Herrmann wrote: The Object Teams contribution for M7 currently fails the aggregation with errors like: [exec] - mirroring artifact osgi.bundle

[cross-project-issues-dev] Which version of pack200 to avoid "Unable to unpack artifact ..."?

2018-05-15 Thread Stephan Herrmann
The Object Teams contribution for M7 currently fails the aggregation with errors like: [exec] - mirroring artifact osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.ui,2.7.0.201805151219 [exec] doing copy of optimized artifact [exec] unpacking optimized artifact [exec] Unable

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Simrel branch for 4.7.3a

2018-03-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 29.03.2018 08:31, Matthias Sohn wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Evgeny Mandrikov mailto:mandri...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:05 AM Stephan Herrmann mailto:stephan.herrm...@berlin.de>> wrote: To avoid incompatibilities with the Object

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Simrel branch for 4.7.3a

2018-03-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
To avoid incompatibilities with the Object Teams Patch feature I tried to contribute a version synced with 4.7.3aRC1 from JDT, but found that my gerrit[1] is not picked up by any jenkins job, nor do I see *any* job working from that branch. Am I missing anything? It's not that I want to unduly pu

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [epp-dev] Photon M6 is available now

2018-03-20 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Have you seen https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=532625 ? I don't know if this explains all symptoms you are observing, in particular why *expected* updates were *not* proposed. Anyway, I think it would be good to remove M4 from the composite sooner, rather than later, to effectively t

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] simrel.photon.runaggregator.VALIDATE.gerrit job is broken

2018-02-22 Thread Stephan Herrmann
wrote: Yeah, I later realized the fault was mine, and my not understanding how b3 works w.r.t. its internal model consistency. Also helps that I figured out I can just *remove* the version ranges. \o/ Apologies for the spam, Nick On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Stephan Herrmann mailto:stephan.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] simrel.photon.runaggregator.VALIDATE.gerrit job is broken

2018-02-22 Thread Stephan Herrmann
To me this looks like p2 reporting a fairly normal error: Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being installed: validationSet_main 1.0.0 Missing requirement: mappedRepo_home_data_httpd_download.eclipse.org_datatools_updates_1.14.100

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] p2 <-> aggregator sync.

2018-01-30 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I pulled the plug on Object Teams. hope to be back early during M6 Stephan On 29.01.2018 23:26, Stephan Herrmann wrote: Meanwhile I could reproduce David's observation after getting me a fresh simrel workbench via Oomph. As requested by Todor, I filed https://bugs.eclipse.org/530470

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] p2 <-> aggregator sync.

2018-01-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
bility at all and not be serialized in a form that older runtimes would even loaded, so would be invisible in order runtimes. But perhaps this repo was produced with an M4 version of p2 and not the current version that's in the 4.8IBuilds. On 29.01.2018 08:37, David Williams wrote: On 01/28

[cross-project-issues-dev] p2 <-> aggregator sync.

2018-01-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I've been observing conflicts between recent changes in p2 and the CBI aggregator for some weeks [1]. Today, I triggered a gerrit test with latest from Object Teams, which is provided as a repo created by latest from p2 (as of M5). Result [2]: Unable to load repository p2:file:///home/data/http

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] HTMLPrinter is Broken

2018-01-25 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Interesting thread, indeed. Much of this boils down to how interdependent projects communicate, right? I'll summarize a few goodies in this field that have been mentioned: 1. downstream observes upstream changes by frequent builds against latest. 2. upstream may optionally help downstream by ann

[cross-project-issues-dev] Publishing to Maven Central?

2018-01-14 Thread Stephan Herrmann
How important is Maven Central as a channel for our releases? As more and more projects do publish their results to Maven Central, I wonder whether this is something that can sufficiently be handled by individual projects, or whether some more coordination is needed to make our users happy. I re

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Can DTP join EGit in Oxygen.2 respin?

2017-12-16 Thread Stephan Herrmann
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

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Latest FeaturesAndBundlesPublisher from p2 incompatible with CBI aggregator?

2017-12-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Let's connect the dots: since M3, p2 generates metadata that breaks Oomph Targlets, the CBI aggregator and possibly more. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/313553 M2 is the last "good" build in this regard. Stephan PS: Thanks Ed for looking into this! On 10.12.2017 21:22, Stephan

[cross-project-issues-dev] Latest FeaturesAndBundlesPublisher from p2 incompatible with CBI aggregator?

2017-12-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Anybody else having trouble validating an aggregation if a p2 repo was created using the latest from p2? See https://bugs.eclipse.org/528387 Stephan ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams participation in Photon

2017-12-09 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi, Re-joining at M4, Object Teams participates in the Photon simultaneous release train. Offset: +2 Version: 2.7.0 Release record: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.7.0 Stephan ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Possible SPAM BOT

2017-11-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Perhaps related: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/sp/218037/ some answers copy bits and pieces from previous answers in the same thread. I wouldn't think of a bot, though, more likely someone trying to look smart? Stephan On 27.11.2017 14:13, Ed Willink wrote: Hi Beware that we have

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] unable to push to gerrit - "session is down"

2017-11-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Thanks heaps, indeed! With latest EGit/JGit from nightly I'm back on stage. You saved my day :) Stephan On 28.11.2017 19:03, Thomas Wolf wrote: On 28 Nov 2017, at 17:49 , Stephan Herrmann mailto:stephan.herrm...@berlin.de>> wrote: when trying to push to Oxyge

[cross-project-issues-dev] unable to push to gerrit - "session is down"

2017-11-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
when trying to push to Oxygen_update of org.eclipse.simrel.build.git I get this error: Can't connect to any repository: ssh://sherrm...@git.eclipse.org:29418/simrel/org.eclipse.simrel.build.git (ssh://sherrm...@git.eclipse.org:29418/simrel/org.eclipse.simrel.build.git: session is down) anyone

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen.1a is broken when installed on top of the BETA Patch feature

2017-10-14 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Interesting idea, let's hope we still have the bits to perform the necessary experiments, see https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-releng-dev/msg28664.html Stephan On 14.10.2017 02:08, David Williams wrote: I have not looked at this in detail, but one solution would be to produce a ne

[cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen.1a is broken when installed on top of the BETA Patch feature

2017-10-13 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On day 2 after the Oxygen.1a there was quite a disastrous report on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46731161/jdk-9-wont-let-me-use-strings-java-lang-string-is-ambiguous It turned out to be a "simple" installation problem, and I'm afraid that many users will run into this, too: Installin

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [eclipse-pmc] Fw: Xtext is broken in Oxygen 1a

2017-10-07 Thread Stephan Herrmann
In case the PMC decides positively (which I don't know as of now), I created a gerrit [1]. I don't want to play a blame game, but still I would like to understand why this problem was not detected during the .1a RC1 cycle. Stephan [1] https://git.eclipse.org/r/106393 On 06.10.2017 14:15, Danie

[cross-project-issues-dev] Eclipse plug-ins as automatic modules in Java 9?

2017-10-05 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi, I just noticed by chance that none of the artifacts we are producing are consumable as "automatic modules" in Java 9 speak. The reason is: JPMS defines an algorithm how names for automatic modules are derived from the jar file name. Unfortunately, the spec expects any version to be separated

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams needs to skip Oxygen.1a and Photon M3

2017-09-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Now that that JDT's Java 9 support has been merged, Object Teams needs to merge all these changes into our fork of jdt.core. Since I did not have the time to perform this merge, we have no version of Object Teams that is compatible with latest versions from JDT. To avoid any confusion, accidental

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [aeri] New Problems first seen in Eclipse 4.7.x / Oxygen by Projects

2017-04-01 Thread Stephan Herrmann
FYI: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=514589 - Links in top-ten emails are wrong which contains a workaround... On 01.04.2017 09:47, Error Reports Bot wrote: Greetings cross-projects-issues, this is the monthly overview of the TOP 10 open problems by project detected for Oxygen

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] hipp9 overloaded

2017-02-05 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Could this be a general issue? The factor of 4 looks similar to what I see in hipp10 (Object Teams). Some figures: Two individual test suites A and B as part of the Object Teams build over time (from some builds which I happened to keep): up-to 2016-12-08: suite A: around 30 min.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] hudson job fail

2016-11-17 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 11/17/2016 06:59 PM, Greg Watson wrote: Hi, My hudson job is failing with this error. Does anyone have any idea why? Thanks, Greg Nov 17, 2016 12:57:40 PM org.sonatype.guice.bean.reflect.Logs$JULSink warn > [...] Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/eclipse/tycho/core/p

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams participation in Oxygen

2016-11-01 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi, Object Teams will be participating in the Oxygen Simultaneous Release with an offset of +2. Release Record: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.6.0 best, Stephan ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-proje

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Git servers not working well?

2016-10-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On build.eclipse.org I consistently received git: Connection refused, but after changing protocol from git: to https: all was fine. Stephan On 10/29/2016 08:07 PM, Ed Willink wrote: Hi With the OCL HIPP, I can usually (75% success) get one build after restarting before the GIT connection fail

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CodeEnvy continues to use deceptive wording that's harmful to Eclipse

2016-06-30 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 06/30/2016 10:27 AM, Eike Stepper wrote: Hi All, I have not a very strong opinion on this wording, but it strikes me that their wording is unnecessarily biasing. "Next-generation" does imply that it's a newer and better variant of something that's older and less good. IMHO, "next generati

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] New UUID in Eclipse Platform

2016-06-05 Thread Stephan Herrmann
This thread is an awesome proof that the Eclipse community is alive and kicking. I appreciate Ian taking steps to help the Eclipse community to stay relevant. And I appreciate most of the concerns expressed regarding UUID-based data collection. Little to add. Just looking at this statement: On

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Enforce Gerrit for Simrel?

2016-01-07 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I like gerrit for long-running tests so I can start the next task while tests are still running on the server. Running b3 validation in the b3 editor is not what I call a long-running test, I rather feel it convenient to validate locally, before pushing to the server. Does the Gerrit validation jo

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams will participate in Neon

2015-11-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I have created the following release record for Object Teams 2.5.0 (Neon): https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.5.0 We will contribute to simrel at offset +2. I will still keep the simrel contribution disabled for M3, because: As of M2 I had to disable the contribu

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Announcing JDK 9 support for Eclipse Neon

2015-10-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Tom, I don't see a conflict between Jay's and your observations: Yes, users will be able to create / compile / package modules. No, users will not create Jimage files. Whether or not it is a module is a conceptual question. It needs a module-info.java / module-info.class and there you are. The

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Announcing JDK 9 support for Eclipse Neon

2015-10-26 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 10/26/2015 07:31 PM, Mike Milinkovich wrote: On 26/10/2015 7:50 AM, Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran wrote: At this point, I would like to call out that JDK 9 is unlike any other JDK versions of the past, notable change being the JAR files (with platform classes) are giving way to a proprietary

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Git doesn't work with IOException: End of IO Stream Read

2015-10-04 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Have you seen https://bugs.eclipse.org/478690 ? It also links to the early thread in this list titled "Git outage?" HTH, Stephan On 10/04/2015 09:59 AM, Alexander Gurov wrote: Hello everyone, While Git works fine for some projects (SimRel, for example), for some other it fails (at least for o

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams disabled for Neon M2

2015-09-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi, The BCEL issue mentioned before makes the current build of Object Teams unusable. I have therefore disabled the Object Teams contribution in the aggregation. I hope, we'll be back aboard in time for M3. best, Stephan PS: Obviously I could not validate if may change breaks the aggregation,

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Git outage?

2015-09-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I've seen similar exceptions. I was suspecting a jsch version-problem to be the cause. After updating a bunch of stuff including EGit I could connect again. HTH Stephan On 09/29/2015 09:25 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote: I am getting a failure when pushing or pulling from Git this morning. I

[cross-project-issues-dev] Anyone (still) using BCEL?

2015-09-29 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi, Object Teams is facing problems after the platform's move to Java 8, because our traditional bytecode weaver is based on BCEL 5.2, which cannot handle Java 8 bytecode. While we have a new ASM-based weaver about ready for prime-time, I would love to keep the BCEL-based weaver as an option. (T

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Maintenance builds (was Announcing a one week slip in the Mars.1 release (from 9/25 to 10/2))

2015-09-24 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi, I don't see an easy solution but I do share Ed's concerns in this regard. Is this just a packaging issue or an issue of content? Aside from the Eclipse project, how many projects are actively maintaining maintenance branches (no pun intended)? Meaning: if we'd provide a channel for obtaining

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Unannounced Changes Have Unforeseen Consequences

2015-09-15 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I like the idea of 5.0 for API removal. To minimize impact on adopters: why not schedule the jump to 5.0 for Neon+1 as to give projects a chance to include more removal of deprecated API at once? I believe the currently discussed API removal could easily wait until Neon+1? Then API cleanup would b

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] When are Gerrit commits automatically applied?

2015-05-20 Thread Stephan Herrmann
n...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Herrmann Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:42 PM To: cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] When are Gerrit commits automatically applied? I'm not sure what's the goal here? Enable submit-to-gerrit-and-leave - wit

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] When are Gerrit commits automatically applied?

2015-05-20 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I'm not sure what's the goal here? Enable submit-to-gerrit-and-leave - without awaiting the result from hudson? ;P If you wait for success, what harm is done by having to do two more clicks? my 2c. Stephan On 05/20/2015 07:44 AM, Eike Stepper wrote: Hi, I'm not a Gerrit expert, but a quick sea

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Heads-up: core.expressions has increased to "3.5.0"

2015-05-01 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 05/01/2015 02:08 PM, Markus Keller wrote: To those who had a wrong version range like [3.4, 3.5): Please find the bug in your process that introduced this too-narrow dependency in the first place. If a tool generated that dependency, then please file a bug for that tool. https://wiki.eclips

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Automatic Bugzilla updates (Gerrit and Commit references) from Gerrit

2015-02-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
thanks for prompt action as usual On 02/10/2015 02:28 PM, Denis Roy wrote: Indeed, I've reverted part of that change. I can support Bug: 12345 and [12345] (with square brackets) quite reliably, but not 12345. On 10/02/15 06:40 AM, Stephan Herrmann wrote: Denis hit the nail: Pleas

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Automatic Bugzilla updates (Gerrit and Commit references) from Gerrit

2015-02-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Denis hit the nail: Please see all the fresh and wrong comments in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=41503 This is a no-go. Stephan On 02/09/2015 05:08 PM, Denis Roy wrote: The question that comes to my mind is: why not simply adopt Bug: XX as the standard? 458123 could be a

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Gerrit down?

2015-01-14 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 01/14/2015 11:11 PM, Greg Watson wrote: Is anyone else seeing “Service Temporarily Unavailable” for Gerrit? Yep, see http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-committers/msg01030.html Stephan ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cros

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams participation in Mars

2014-11-23 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Object Teams will participate in the Mars simultaneous release with an offset of +2. We plan to contribute release 2.4.0: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.4.0 best, Stephan ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cro

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Cannot launch p2 director with Luna SR1 RC2 build

2014-09-02 Thread Stephan Herrmann
The fix (as of build M20140902-1430) appears to be working fine. thanks, Stephan On 09/02/2014 08:15 PM, Daniel Megert wrote: We will produce an RC2a once the fix is ready. Dani From: Stephan Herrmann To: Cross project issues Date: 02.09.2014 18:28 Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Cannot launch p2 director with Luna SR1 RC2 build

2014-09-02 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 09/02/2014 06:26 PM, Stephan Herrmann wrote: See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=441377#c3 I true blocker ... In plain words: due to this bug Object Teams will not be able to contribute to SR1 RC2. Stephan ___ cross-project

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Cannot launch p2 director with Luna SR1 RC2 build

2014-09-02 Thread Stephan Herrmann
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=441377#c3 I true blocker ... On 09/02/2014 06:17 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote: I picked up the Luna SR1 RC2 build this morning and I am seeing the following failure in Equinox when p2 director is called. The Eclipse IDE starts up without a

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] org.eclipse.jdt.core from objectteams gets selected due to higher version

2014-06-27 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi Doug, On 06/27/2014 06:36 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote: I guess the real question, is that if someone ends up with the OTDT version of the JDT, do bad things happen? JDT has occasionally received a bug report that was actually a bug in OTDT. The same happens with Groovy as well. From memory I'd

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] org.eclipse.jdt.core from objectteams gets selected due to higher version

2014-06-27 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 06/27/2014 05:34 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote: But I do remember a lot of concern when this came along and Max's question is a valid one to ask. We do have two JDT's in the simrel repo. That's pretty scary. Doug OK, I had to dig 3+ years into the past to find the original agreement. Here are th

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] org.eclipse.jdt.core from objectteams gets selected due to higher version

2014-06-25 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 06/25/2014 02:17 PM, Thomas Hallgren wrote: My guess is that the reason it gets selected by p2 is that the version 3.10.0.v_OTDT_r230_201406101339 is lexically greater than 3.10.0.v20140604-1726 since '_' (0x5f) is greater than '2' (0x32) This is intended and required to make the pat

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] org.eclipse.jdt.core from objectteams gets selected due to higher version

2014-06-25 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 06/25/2014 12:09 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote: I just encountered a build failure when using the platform repository in conjunction with the luna staging one. The failure was caused by p2 preferring the objectteams patch for org.eclipse.jdt.core in favor of the original. Seems the patch has a h

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] IP Logs for Luna are due tomorrow

2014-05-22 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 05/23/2014 08:15 AM, Ed Willink wrote: On 23/05/2014 01:43, Wayne Beaton wrote: At the bottom of your project's PMI page, Which page is that? The main view, or one of the tabs such Edit? For the Project or for the Release? I, too, never saw it because it's well hidden in plain view: for

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Luna RC1 staging repo is complete.

2014-05-22 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi Scott, thanks for explaining. On 05/22/2014 04:01 PM, Scott Lewis wrote: ECF would like to continue supporting Kepler, however, and so we need to continue > distributing the patch so that Kepler users can install ECF from the Luna repo. This is the part that looks funny to me: why should

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Luna RC1 staging repo is complete.

2014-05-22 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I just stumbled upon a feature that doesn't seem to belong here: "ECF Patch for Eclipse Kepler (4.3). Not needed for Eclipse Luna (4.4)." Not sure if (a) needed for some technical reasons and hence the nice explanation in the feature name "please don't use me", or (b) simply forgotten from

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Kepler SR3 for Java 8?

2014-03-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 03/28/2014 09:00 AM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote: Several JDT devs on this thread have voiced concern over stability of Java 8 support > since it hasn’t had time to shake out all the bugs. I don't know anyone in our team who would say the release on March 18 didn't have release quality.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] EF plans to raise awareness of Java 8 support

2014-03-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi Mike, I'm fully in favor of your proposal. The existing patch release is the big release we've been targeting during all those efforts. Making the patch install more prominent sounds like the straight- forward action. Indeed the second priority seems to be WTP support for Java 8, we had sever

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Upgrade of JDK8 on build server

2014-01-07 Thread Stephan Herrmann
very tightly packed. Hence no promise made on this issue... best, Stephan On 01/07/2014 05:04 PM, Tom Schindl wrote: Hi, No problem Stephan - I'm fine with b121 anyways! On the JDK8 adoption can one compile against JDK8 now and set the compilance level to JavaSE7? Tom On 07.01.14 16:5

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Upgrade of JDK8 on build server

2014-01-07 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Sorry, Tom, I didn't even ask myself if this was worth an announcement. My bad. Of course the previous version is still available, if you use the exact versioned path. I don't have plans to further upgrade this. BTW: when will Eclipse releng adopt JDK8? best, Stephan On 01/07/2014 03:11 PM,

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] b3 aggregator can't consume kepler repo?

2013-10-09 Thread Stephan Herrmann
lish what you need, and the hard part is knowing which is easiest. Good luck ... let us know what you learn! From: Stephan Herrmann To: cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org, Date: 10/08/2013 07:22 AM Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] b3 aggr

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] b3 aggregator can't consume kepler repo?

2013-10-08 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Eclipse_b3/aggregator/manual#Mapped_Repository or http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_b3/aggregator/manual#Validation_Repository or, indirectly, in http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Customizing_Metadata If not, you might try a "how do I ... " question on the eclipse.b3 newsgroup/forum. HTH

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] b3 aggregator can't consume kepler repo?

2013-10-07 Thread Stephan Herrmann
ing the platform repo? -Original Message- From: cross-project-issues-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Herrmann Sent: October-07-13 4:40 PM To: cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] b3 agg

[cross-project-issues-dev] b3 aggregator can't consume kepler repo?

2013-10-07 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I've had some fights with the b3 aggregator today and it seems to boil down to the fact that the aggregator cannot consume the kepler repository, neither releases/kepler, nor one of the children 201306260900 or 201309270900. To witness: I have a toy aggregation (1 feature with one plugin) that v

[cross-project-issues-dev] Object Teams participation in Luna

2013-09-10 Thread Stephan Herrmann
The Object Teams Project will be participating in the Luna Simultaneous Release. Object Teams has an offset of +2. The release record can be found here: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.objectteams/releases/2.3.0 Object Teams missed M1 due to a little bug in p2 [1] which became a blo

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] JFace Generics

2013-08-30 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Coming late to the discussion I don't want to repeat previous statements, so let me just cast my vote, 2 votes actually: -1 From all I saw, the most dangerous reasoning, IMHO, is to say: This had to be released early in order to make people react. So a team wants attention from others to get fe

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Status and outlook for Luna M1

2013-08-21 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Object Teams cannot be installed in M1 due to https://bugs.eclipse.org/253244 (which hits us after the rewrite of the equinox framework). I will enable our contribution just for one aggregation run to see we're able to contribute and disable it immediately after. I'm hopeful that the bug can be s

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Are too many packages actually hurting Eclipse?

2013-07-30 Thread Stephan Herrmann
On 07/30/2013 11:56 AM, Mickael Istria wrote: On 07/30/2013 11:01 AM, Pascal Rapicault wrote: - On first start, prompt the user with a customization wizard that let the user add more plugins to his Eclipse. For example, it could ask questions about the language being used, the SCM, etc. That w

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Preferences (topic was touched in "Eclipse smells kind of dead" thread)

2013-07-18 Thread Stephan Herrmann
How many of you guys are using workspace mechanic [1]? From my experience it goes a long way in the desired direction. Given that workspace mechanic is looking for a new maintainer, maybe "we" want to adopt it in some way? cheers, Stephan [1] http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/workspacem

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-03 Thread Stephan Herrmann
> Ed Merks wrote > Another question we must ask is what's best for the consumers/adopters? > ... On the other hand, I also imagine that a great many > commercial adopters see quality and stability as their primary criteria > for adoption and hence see more value in SR1 and SR2 releases of a

[cross-project-issues-dev] Kepler post-mortem: versioning

2013-06-28 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Posts on this list have shown disagreement on how to label our versions, despite the general agreement to use semantic versioning. Where and when will we have the full discussion? I strongly feel the discussion must be held, I am willing to say the bad words: its not only about understanding the

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Status and outlook for Kepler M3

2012-11-15 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Also the latest M build at http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/M20121114-1200/ seems to suffer from the redirect problem? I can see the directory when logging into build.e.o. but in a browser I get redirected to granite then 404. Recently 404 changed to 403. Stephan On 11/15/2

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Managing Gerrit Reviews across Git Repos

2012-09-20 Thread Stephan Herrmann
I'm curious if this could be solved using a compound repo with submodules? Can gerrit handle submodules? Stephan On 09/20/2012 01:52 AM, Miles Parker wrote: [cross posting to Reviews and cross-project list] We've got an interesting issue with reviews that span git repositories. In this case

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