Re: [platform-dev] Workspace location, properties and declarative services

2021-03-22 Thread Ed Merks
It sounds like a very sensitive area where even subtle changes in behavior (timing of events) are likely to be disruptive downstream... What will be the net benefit from such a change from an end-user point of view as well as from and downstream developer point of view?  I.e., will something b

Re: [platform-dev] How to best document consumed OSGi/DS services?

2021-03-22 Thread Christoph Läubrich
I'm not sure what you have in mind. DO you like to document the *usage* of DS? as mentioned earlier I would expects documentation at the service interface itself. That platform uses DS to consume services is just an implementation detail and doesn't bother the provider much. Such documentati

[platform-dev] Workspace location, properties and declarative services

2021-03-22 Thread Alex Blewitt
I’m trying to migrate the Workspace initialisation from an Activator start() method to a Declarative Service in https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform.resources/+/178145 Although this works if the workspac

[platform-dev] New Website

2021-03-22 Thread Wim Jongman
Hi All, Just a heads up and please raise your hand if you have concerns or questions. I am going to create a temporary Jenkins job to push our new website to a Staging branch of the current website [1]. As soon as this is done, I will ping this thread again to show the result. Just for fun, ple

Re: [platform-dev] Has the time come?

2021-03-22 Thread Wim Jongman
On the other hand, working together is also difficult in the GitHub workflow if we work with forks. I realized this when I was working with bug 572080 Starring: Repo X-Eclipse, fork X-Jill, and fork X-Jack Story: Jill works on her fork and finds an unrelated issue. She reports this and Jack decid

Re: [platform-dev] Has the time come?

2021-03-22 Thread Wim Jongman
I want to mention one thing in Gerrit that I probably do wrong or is indeed difficult: Working together on the same change. When I work on my own, I can sequentially push new changes. If someone is helping me (e.g. changed the commit message in the Gerrit UI, or anything more substantial) then my

Re: [platform-dev] Has the time come?

2021-03-22 Thread Wim Jongman
Thanks for your input and contributions, Ingo. We hope many may follow ;) ___ platform-dev mailing list platform-dev@eclipse.org To unsubscribe from this list, visit https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev

Re: [platform-dev] How to best document consumed OSGi/DS services?

2021-03-22 Thread Mickael Istria
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:28 PM Wim Jongman wrote: > Just brainstorming I would say, extend the javadoc engine to process the > service xml with some style sheet and insert that in the HTML output? > Does anyone know if Javadoc can be extended like that? The doc on javadoc > suggest the usage of

Re: [platform-dev] How to best document consumed OSGi/DS services?

2021-03-22 Thread Wim Jongman
Just brainstorming I would say, extend the javadoc engine to process the service xml with some style sheet and insert that in the HTML output? Does anyone know if Javadoc can be extended like that? The doc on javadoc suggest the usage of an extension mechanism [1] Cheers, Wim [1] https://docs.or