On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 2:03 PM Andrew Johnson <andrew_john...@uk.ibm.com>
wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 18:38:24 +0100
> From: Ed Merks
> To: cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org
> Subject:
>
> Fred,
>
> We're definitely on the path to greatness again.? Many teams have taken
> action so the RC1 report is much improved:
>
>
> https://download.eclipse.org/oomph/archive/reports/download.eclipse.org/releases/2019-12/http___download.eclipse.org_releases_2019-12_201912061000.html
>
> Special thanks to the Eclipse Collections team who I know invested
> significant time.
>
> There are unfortunately some hold-outs that continue to reflect poorly
> on our group's results:
>
> These outstanding bugs are open for each of the bad license problems
> because it appears that these contributors are not reading cross-projects:
>
>    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553879
>    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553523
>    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553880
>    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553881
>    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553882
>    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553883
>
> *Please pay attention t4me, uml2, m2e, m2e-wtp, mylyn docs, and xwt teams.*
>

To be clear, I AM paying attention but UML2 was not planning a new release
as part of the 2019-12 train and I’m afraid I will not be able to carve out
the personal time required to produce one with the limited runway that is
left. If this is truly a critical issue, I will work towards a plan to fix
it for the next round. Apologies for the inconvenience.


> Also, given that the Reporting package has been removed I would
> recommend removing BIRT itself from SimRel.?? This content is more than
> two years old with bad licenses and with the only remaining unsigned
> content. ? I don't hold out hope that there will be a new build so I've
> *not *opened a Bugzilla. *
> *
> *
> *
> *Does BIRT removal affect anyone?*
>
> Regards,
> Ed
>
> Yes, Eclipse Memory Analyzer uses BIRT for graphing of memory usage. We
> would not have any pie charts if BIRT was removed, both dynamic charts in
> the overview pane and HTML charts in reports. The pie charts shown on our
> home page https://www.eclipse.org/mat/ and here
> https://www.eclipse.org/mat/about/overview.png and here
> https://help.eclipse.org/2019-09/topic/org.eclipse.mat.ui.help/tasks/listbiggestobjects.html
> is generated by BIRT.
>
> Fortunately the graphing is in a separate feature, so it would not break
> the rest of the tool, but it is useful for us. We only have a small team
> and don't have the time or expertise to use a new graphing package. If it
> has to be removed then we need plenty of notice, and ideally some help in
> writing code to use a replacement. Please keep BIRT.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Johnson
> Committer, Eclipse Memory Analyzer project
>
>
>
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