Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] End of an Era: shell access.

2019-09-01 Thread David Williams
On 8/27/19 13:27, Denis Roy wrote: I think we're one of the last shops on earth that has SSH shell access right into our mission-critical infra. Even before 2009 this practice was pure insanity from a data/systems security perspective but

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] End of an Era: shell access.

2019-08-24 Thread David Williams
On 8/23/19 14:24, Matthew Ward wrote: Hi Everyone,   I just wanted to follow up with a reminder that on August 28th we will be moving committers that have an actual shell on Eclipse.org to our restricted shell.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] http or https reference to P2 repos: (was Re: Initialization for 2019-06)

2019-04-17 Thread David Williams
On 4/16/19 04:13, Ed Willink wrote: Hi I just changed the repo reference in the *.aggrcon from http: to https: but the resulting log changes from: 08:40:39 Adding child meta-data repository

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Will the Platform Start Making Major Version Increments?

2018-11-06 Thread David Williams
On 10/30/18 11:29, Daniel Megert wrote: Hi Ed Last time we discussed this in 2017 there were different opinions on this topic but we never decided on the topic. Today we decided unanimously that in general we

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] The Oxygen's BUILD_CLEAN job might be stuck

2018-02-28 Thread David Williams
On 02/28/2018 01:35 PM, Quentin Le Menez wrote: Hi Fred, It seems that its stuck again :/ Do you have some ideas as to why ?

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Change in Eclipse SDK release cadence

2017-12-04 Thread David Williams
No, no specific concerns or doubts. In fact I decided it was a silly question, since it is the simultaneous release that has a policy of "no breaking API changes, off-cycle". So, the original announcement must have meant "update releases".

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Change in Eclipse SDK release cadence

2017-12-02 Thread David Williams
What's missing from this announcement is what this means regarding versions or versioning. I can guess, but it would be better for you to be explicit. I am assuming you mean something more than "maintenance release" (i.e., a change in the third

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

2017-10-13 Thread David Williams
On 10/13/2017 06:04 PM, Stephan Herrmann wrote: 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

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] download.eclipse.org down?

2017-08-22 Thread David Williams
On 08/22/2017 11:47 PM, Sravan K Lakkimsetti wrote: Hi,   Download.eclipse.org is down for me. Any one facing this issue?   Thanks Sravan Down for me too. And,

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] JDK8&9 Update

2017-07-25 Thread David Williams
On 07/25/2017 08:53 AM, Frederic Gurr wrote: Hi, Paths to the latest JDK8 and JDK9 have been updated as follows: /shared/common/jdk1.8.0-latest -> /shared/common/jdk1.8.0_131 /shared/common/jdk1.8.0_x64-latest -> /shared/common/jdk1.8.0_131.x64

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] SimRel aggregation build

2017-07-18 Thread David Williams
On 07/17/2017 01:33 PM, Frederic Gurr wrote: Hi, I've started preparations for the Photon SimRel aggregation build. New jobs have been created on the SimRel HIPP (https://hudson.eclipse.org/simrel/). The Photon jobs are pointing to the master branch of the SimRel

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [Brainstorming] Why (not) a "Final Daze" in SimRel?

2017-06-27 Thread David Williams
On 06/27/2017 08:04 AM, Ed Merks wrote: The update sites are only hidden by virtue of not telling the user the location of the update site. Making it visible is mostly about publishing the location in documentation somewhere, or by updating a composite to point at it. Blocking release

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Validating Aggregator fails because of legacy update site -> MAT

2017-05-23 Thread David Williams
On 05/23/2017 01:47 PM, Alexander Nyßen wrote: Hi all, when validating the Oxygen aggregator on my machine, the validation fails because of an unsupported legacy update site. It seems this was introduced by updating MAT. If I disable MAT and Andmore (which depends on it), the validation

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Bugzilla seem to be down again

2017-03-12 Thread David Williams
Is it my imagination, or do major outages always occur on the weekend? :) On 03/12/2017 11:02 AM, Denis Roy wrote: Our database master failed. We had a new server in place, synced up and ready to go. We were going to make the switch next weekend. That switch just happened. Our database

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Problem withorg.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient bundle in Oxygen M5

2017-02-03 Thread David Williams
For what it's worth, you are both right. :) Nothing in the platform depends directly on the Apache httpcomponents, but ECF does, and the platform depends on ECF. In fact, part of ECF is duplicated in our repository so that it will be a self-contained

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Fwd: Simrel repo contributions

2017-01-19 Thread David Williams
I will answer to "cross-project" list, since may be of general interest. And before answering the question, I will remind everyone the purpose of the "checkpoint build" was primarily to allow any new projects, or projects with new features, to "get

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.2 update release is now available

2016-12-21 Thread David Williams
Congratulations! This is our first-ever December update release! (The first 2-of-3 update releases.) What a busy bunch you are. :) Neon.2 is now available at the build-in repository at .../download.eclipse.org/releases/neon/ EPP packages are at https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ or more

[cross-project-issues-dev] Are we distributing software with known security issues?

2016-12-17 Thread David Williams
This question is motivated by a recent article[1] I happened across. In short, it pointed to evidence that many software applications are re-distributing open source components with known security issues. "*Yes*, we are distributing software with

[cross-project-issues-dev] Requirements to participate in the Oxygen (2017) Release repository

2016-12-16 Thread David Williams
Every year, the Planning Council specifies that M4 is the deadline for the council to have the official, final version of the Simultaneous Release Requirements. This year is no exception (though, sorry, I am sending this note a bit late in the day).

[cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M4 is available

2016-12-16 Thread David Williams
Oxygen M4 has been made available at the built-in URL of http://download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen/ (It is a composite, now consisting of M4, M3, and M2.) The EPP Packages are (or will be soon) available at the "developers" tab for packages, at

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Projects that have not (AFAICT) declared participation in Oxygen

2016-12-16 Thread David Williams
On 12/15/2016 08:56 AM, Sven Efftinge wrote: Xpand is in maintenance mode, but I understood that it needs to be included if other projects have a dependency on it. In that case, I assume it is a viable option to just include last year's release again. Is that correct? That is correct. With

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M4 - staging is complete, as before

2016-12-14 Thread David Williams
insights or suggestions). Staging has not changed since my previous note. The last staging repo was produced around 6 PM Eastern on Wednesday ... in case you have gotten a head start, Markus. :) On 12/14/2016 07:56 PM, David Williams wrote: This is fine by me *IFF* you are talking about "

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M4

2016-12-14 Thread David Williams
This is fine by me *IFF* you are talking about "hours". I will turn the job back on until about, let's say, 10 PM Eastern. (Feel free to say at that point if you are "close to done with a little more time". My main concern is that it not be delayed 24 hours or something, but otherwise, I am

[cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M4 staging repository is complete

2016-12-14 Thread David Williams
It is after 5 on Wednesday, no one has asked for an extension, and the servers are cooling down after many contributions the past few days. Hence, I will the staging repository complete and disable any new contributions builds (until Friday, after

[cross-project-issues-dev] Beginning "quiet week" for Neon.2

2016-12-12 Thread David Williams
As I am sure you know, we are scheduled to release Neon.2 on 12/21/2016, at approximately 10 AM Eastern. Between now and then is what we call "quiet week" -- a time for final acceptance testing and preparation of websites, etc. While it is

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.2 staging repository is complete

2016-12-07 Thread David Williams
As far as I can tell, everyone has made their final contribution for Neon. (Linux tools came in at 5:06 PM (Eastern) ... and they were not even the last one! :) As always, test well! Thanks all! P.S. I say "as far as I can tell" since

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.2 RC3 staging repository is complete

2016-11-30 Thread David Williams
Staging is complete and ready for EPP packages to be created. http://download.eclipse.org/staging/neon/ Remember, there is several different ways to test the staging repository (each way important!):

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Subversive new version

2016-11-30 Thread David Williams
On 11/30/2016 04:52 PM, Alexander Gurov wrote: [...] Also there is a question regarding the build failure. Missing requirement: mappedRepo_home_data_httpd_download.eclipse.org_technology_subversive_4.0_neon-site 1.0.0 requires

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Subversive new version

2016-11-30 Thread David Williams
On 11/30/2016 12:58 PM, Quentin Le Menez wrote: Hi David, I just saw that subversive released a new version of their feature (strange as they are +2 offset) and it failed our builds and the simrel one. Does this mean I'll have to do a respin of our NEON release ? Thanks Quentin Yes, it

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [simultaneous release build process] Can't edit aggregation data

2016-11-30 Thread David Williams
On 11/30/2016 11:24 AM, Alexander Gurov wrote: Hi, everyone! It seems I can't open simrel.aggr file with CBI AggregatorEditor. The only thing I get is the exception below: java.lang.RuntimeException: Deprecated resource was not transformed at

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.2 RC2 Staging repo is complete

2016-11-23 Thread David Williams
The ../staging/neon repository has the latest "neon.2" output -- it has been a busy couple of days with many people making updates! I have temporarily disabled the "Neon jobs" that lead to changing the staging repository and will re-enable them on Friday, after the EPP packages are done.

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Aggreagtor Email questions

2016-11-23 Thread David Williams
On 11/23/2016 08:53 AM, LE MENEZ Quentin wrote: Hi David,   I was wondering if this was the case (it seems so): do the emails in the project aggregator file need to belong to a committer for the

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] setting mirror URL in the p2 repository

2016-11-21 Thread David Williams
On 11/21/2016 03:58 AM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: [...] Does it make sense? Several sites that I am (or, was) in charge of use a similar strategy. Especially when a repo is "moved" (such as from "candidate" to "released"). And, similarly, currently even for a Platform build, since we wanted to

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] NOTICE: - DONE refactoring of "aggregator" coming Thursday

2016-11-17 Thread David Williams
P.S. I will re-enable the Neon.VALIDATE job on Friday, after the EPP packages have been verified (approximately noon). The Neon.VALIDATE.gerrit job remains open for business, though. On 11/16/2016 04:55 PM, David Will

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.2 RC1 staging repository is complete

2016-11-16 Thread David Williams
Sorry for the late notice, but the staging repository for Neon.2 RC1 is ready. http://download.eclipse.org/staging/neon/ A good time to check the "repo reports" if you haven't yet: http://download.eclipse.org/staging/neon/buildInfo/reporeports/ And, remember, we no longer do "warmups", and

[cross-project-issues-dev] NOTICE: refactoring of "aggregator" coming Thursday

2016-11-16 Thread David Williams
Colleagues, I have been working on refactoring the old "b3 aggregator" to the "cbi aggregator" (bug 506726). That is, refactoring package names, etc. This will require two things of those participating in the Sim. Release. 1.

[cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M3 repo and IDE products ready

2016-11-04 Thread David Williams
The Oxygen M3 repository has been "made visible" to p2. The repo is now a composite of M3, M2, and M1. Please test and report any issues. http://download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen/ The M3 packages will be available soon, if not already. (We are considering calling them "IDE Products" so I

[cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M3 staging repository is complete

2016-11-02 Thread David Williams
Its Wednesday evening. Nothing's building. No one's asked for more time. So I will declare the staging repository "complete" and ready for EPP and others to do their part. To confirm it has the content you expect, please test http://download.eclipse.org/staging/oxygen/ Assuming no blocking

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

2016-10-30 Thread David Williams
Thanks for this tip. I did confirm that works, but then thought why not go all the way and avoid the network protocols and use file:///gitroot/... for builds. Works well for me in my Hudson jobs running on Linux. While it should not be required to make such changes, even after "git://" is

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

2016-10-28 Thread David Williams
On 10/28/2016 02:26 PM, Marc-André Laperle wrote: A lot of our Hudson builds have been failing with for example: Command "git fetch -t git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/tracecompass/org.eclipse.tracecompass.git refs/changes/24/84124/2"

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Update your desktop versions of "cbi aggregator" (aka b3 aggregator)

2016-10-28 Thread David Williams
On 10/28/2016 08:11 AM, Andreas Sewe wrote: Hi David, Sorry, I gave wrong URL. The latest build is at: http://download.eclipse.org/cbi/updates/aggregator/ide/4.5/I20161027-1601/ will this URL make it into the "Simultaneous Release

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Update your desktop versions of "cbi aggregator" (aka b3 aggregator)

2016-10-27 Thread David Williams
Sorry, I gave wrong URL. The latest build is at: http://download.eclipse.org/cbi/updates/aggregator/ide/4.5/I20161027-1601/ On 10/27/2016 01:59 PM, David Williams wrote: I have a build of the aggregator

[cross-project-issues-dev] Update your desktop versions of "cbi aggregator" (aka b3 aggregator)

2016-10-27 Thread David Williams
I have a build of the aggregator running in its new home, CBI, (see bug Bug 487478) but with the main fix I have made so far it may cause you to get an error if you use the old version. The first thing I did was to base the current build on "Mars.2"

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.1a is now available

2016-10-11 Thread David Williams
As you all should know, we have been working on fixing a bug in MPC (Market Place Client) that effected other projects too. (bug 501000). The repositories are now visible to p2. The "Neon.1a" specific repository is

[cross-project-issues-dev] A warning note on "Neon.1" tag in o.e.simrel.builds project

2016-10-07 Thread David Williams
The note is relevant to anyone that checks out the "org.eclipse.simrel.build" project. Yesterday I tagged the wrong commit has for the Neon.1 release. I could not delete it (and could not change repo settings that would have allowed me to delete it)

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.1 is available!

2016-09-28 Thread David Williams
As scheduled, Neon.1 is now available. Both updates from the repository at   .../releases/neon And the packages will be visible soon (if not already) at   https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/ I am sure there will eventually

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Final release urls for Neon.1 on simrel

2016-09-27 Thread David Williams
Sravan and others, You can update the URLs in your b3aggrcon files at any time. And, you can still submit to Gerrit, just to confirm no typos, etc. And, you can even push to HEAD (of the Neon_maintenance stream). This will not go any further, though. That

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M2 repository and packages are complete

2016-09-23 Thread David Williams
sible also at https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php well, 6 of them are. The rest are waiting for maintainers to sanity check and give their plus 1. Thanks again, On 09/23/2016 10:41 AM, David Will

[cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M2 repository and packages are (almost) complete

2016-09-23 Thread David Williams
Congratulations and thanks to the Sim Release Projects! Oxygen M2 repository is available from from .../releases/oxygen And the packages should be available before long from a tab under

[cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen M2 staging repository is complete

2016-09-21 Thread David Williams
Thanks everyone for your updates. As we ended up, only soa-bpmn2-modeler is disabled, and only 5 or 6 projects have "decreasing" feature versions (the Eclipse Platform being one of them). :/ I will promote this repo Friday morning around 10:00 and re-enable the Oxygen aggregation builds

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] How to provide HDPI icons in yourplug-in

2016-09-21 Thread David Williams
On 09/21/2016 08:20 PM, Stefan Xenos wrote: What I proposed would occur once, so it would slow down *installation* time but not startup time. We could show a message along the lines of "installing icons" to make it clear to the user what's going on. Or do you have some reason to believe this

[cross-project-issues-dev] Status and outlook for Oxygen M2

2016-09-20 Thread David Williams
As I am sure everyone is aware, Oxygen M2 input is due tomorrow (Wednesday 9/21 approx. 5 PM). By some standards things look much better for M2 than for M1, but looking deeper there are still many things very incorrect. Some projects still contributing their

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.1 RC4 staging repo is complete

2016-09-14 Thread David Williams
And, I hope, Neon.1! Well, except for all the little things like EPP packages, final testing, updating the "info" center, etc. Speaking of which, as we enter this quiet week before releasing (scheduled for 9/28) there are two bugs to be aware of. If

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oomph b3 agregator

2016-09-14 Thread David Williams
On 09/14/2016 02:25 PM, LE MENEZ Quentin wrote: Hi again,   I just saw https://hudson.eclipse.org/simrel/job/simrel.neon.runaggregator.BUILD_CACHED/659/consoleFull which

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] [neonAggregation] Failed for build 2016-09-14_13-20-39

2016-09-14 Thread David Williams
Hi Remi and Vincent, Are you two "around" and actively working on fixing this issue? It is preventing others from contributing. If I don't hear anything within 5 minutes or so, I will open a bug and start looking to see what I can do (which, I'd prefer not to, since I just fixed "Oomph" :/

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Web Tools Project for Eclipse Oxygen: WSDL feature references wrong version of javax.wsdl?

2016-09-14 Thread David Williams
On 09/13/2016 11:09 AM, Bob Brodt wrote: Hi Web Tools! I'm trying to build BPMN2 Modeler for Eclipse Oxygen, which uses o.e.wst.wsdl. This feature apparently references version  [1.5.0,1.6.0) of javax.wsdl (according to

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oomph b3 agregator

2016-09-14 Thread David Williams
On 09/14/2016 01:02 PM, Carsten Reckord wrote: This build, which promoted the 1.5.0 release build, also removed the old milestone drop: https://hudson.eclipse.org/oomph/job/integration/2601/console This currently blocks validation of all simrel contributions

[cross-project-issues-dev] (some) Neon.1 RC3 packages are available

2016-09-09 Thread David Williams
The Neon.1 RC3 packages have been made available at the usual place: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php There are still quite a few waiting for the maintainer to sign-off. I suspect those missing from the page will show soon, as the maintainers finish their testing.

[cross-project-issues-dev] Gerrit Oxygen aggregation validation is open for business

2016-09-08 Thread David Williams
On 09/08/2016 09:00 AM, David Williams wrote: [...] So, I will ask that projects please contribute what you can to "be current" (even if it is the same your "neon input"). And, I ask that you do that even if Gerrit

[cross-project-issues-dev] Staging repo for Neon.1 RC3 is complete

2016-09-08 Thread David Williams
Apologies for the delayed announcement, but the staging repo was complete about 7 PM last night. I have disabled new builds until the EPP packages are complete and declared. Thanks, ___ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.1 N

2016-09-06 Thread David Williams
On 09/02/2016 01:59 PM, Wim Jongman wrote: Thanks David! Is there a N somewhere? Not so far (that I know of) but I suspect there should be. I have opened Bug 500939 to track the issue. Thanks,

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.1 RC2 packages are available

2016-09-02 Thread David Williams
Their location may not be as obvious as in the past but they are there (click on 'packages' from http://www.eclipse.org/downlaods and then you will see the familiar "developers" tab. Or, the direct URL is https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php I did not look closely but some

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon.1 RC2 staging repository is complete. One caution about WindowBuilder

2016-08-31 Thread David Williams
It appears everyone got in their RC2 contributions despite the DNS issues (since I have not heard otherwise), so I have turned off the aggregation jobs so the EPP packages can be created and give a few days of a non-changing staging/neon repository

[cross-project-issues-dev] Restarted Neon aggregation, and status of EPP

2016-08-26 Thread David Williams
I have restarted the Neon aggregation jobs. For EPP news, see https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/epp-dev/msg04242.html But to quote it here for your convenience: = = = based on the Neon.1 RC1 staging repository we have an EPP 4.6.1RC1 build available that needs testing... *

[cross-project-issues-dev] Neon staging repository for RC1 is complete

2016-08-24 Thread David Williams
It is Wednesday, after 5, and no one has requested a delay, so I will consider RC1 staging repository complete. I have disabled the aggregation jobs for Neon (but not the VALIDATE.gerrit one) to be sure nothing accidentally and automatically

[cross-project-issues-dev] Status of Neon.1 RC1 plus reminder about RC2

2016-08-24 Thread David Williams
I do not know how RC1 "runs", but it was building ok until today. There is a problem from ECF contribution that is the same as Bug 492904 which I have re-opened. If I do not hear from the ECF team soon, I will revert their contribution in order to