We noticed that two projects that had dropped out of the release had not
been removed from the aggregate repository build process. We've disabled
the aggrcon files for both *Eclipse Andmore* and *Eclipse GMF Tooling*.
Both of these projects were +3 in previous years, so I'm hopeful that
nobody else depends on them.

I did run a quick scan of the plug-ins in the repository, and I'm pretty
sure that none of them reference the bundles from either of these projects.
If you know that your project does depend on something that comes from
either of these projects, please let me know ASAP.

While I have your attention...

If you are doing a *service release*, you are not required to engage in a
Release Review, get PMC approval, or submit your IP Log for review by the
IP Team. You are still required to abide by the terms of the Eclipse IP
Policy, so please do make sure that you have the appropriate CQs to cover
all third party content that you've added as part of your service release.
Please just update your release record with a really good description and
you're done.

If you're doing a *major or minor release*, then please do start engaging
with the process. If you're not sure what to do, check with the handbook,
or ask your PMC/mentors/EMO/me for help.

Please put some energy into *describing your release* in the release
record. When somebody asks me "What's new in Oxygen", I'm going to point
them to the details page [2]. This page is generated based on the content
that you provide in the release record. A "teaser" version of the
description that you provide will be shown here. If your description is
short (~400 characters) then it will be used; you can click the "Insert
Teaser Break" icon in the editor to indicate the separation between the
teaser and the rest of the content; or you can click "Edit summary" to
provide a custom summary.

I'll start on building the end-user-focused *New and Noteworthy* document
[3] shortly. Please add yourself to the bug if you intend to contribute.

Thanks for your attention,

Wayne

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#release
[2] https://projects.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen/details
[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=514800

-- 
Wayne Beaton
Director of Open Source Projects
The Eclipse Foundation
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