Re: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.8.0-I: I-3.8.0-20151027010029 - never mind ...

2015-11-11 Thread David M Williams
Never mind. You all must have used wide ranges, or something, since it appears all still aggregates even though DTP reverted. So, no changes from WTP required (as far as I can tell). Thanks, From: David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS To: "General discussion of project

Re: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.8.0-I: I-3.8.0-20151027010029 - a question ...

2015-11-11 Thread David M Williams
WTP and Dali Teams, In case you have not been closely following bug 481095, it appears DTP will be ready with a revert of the "major field" change for Neon M3. (Brian Payton is, at this moment, doing yet another build to correct part of what is mentioned in the bug -- should be done "in an

Re: [wtp-dev] Questions for WTP in Fedora (and a patch!)

2013-03-16 Thread David M Williams
I can help with the first question. That is the only place its used and is useful. (And, not sure its all that useful there, any more :) Long ago, it was a place holder to use in production builds that did nothing, but during special test builds there would be a implementation included that

Re: [wtp-dev] Stepping down as project lead

2013-02-28 Thread David M Williams
+ 1 for Nick Sandonato for Source Editing lead (where I am a committer ... I am not a committer for JSDT, but would vote +1 there too, if I were. :) And, thanks to you Nitin, for your many years of leadership of both projects. From: Wayne Beaton wa...@eclipse.org To:

Re: [wtp-dev] WTP documentation is missing on the online Eclipse Help Juno

2012-08-27 Thread David M Williams
The original creation was https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=379598 You could re-open or create a new bug, I'd guess. From: Raev, Kaloyan kaloyan.r...@sap.com To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org wtp-dev@eclipse.org, Date: 08/27/2012 10:24 AM Subject:[wtp-dev] WTP

[wtp-dev] I would like to resign from several webtools sub-projects

2012-05-15 Thread David M Williams
Specifically, I'd like to resign from the following sub-projects: webtools.datatools webtools.ejbtools webtools.jeetools webtools.servertools webtools.webservices On the one hand, this make conceptual sense since I never have contributed much to these projects, beyond fixing a few features,

[wtp-dev] WTP repo to be non-greedy for Juno M5

2012-01-23 Thread David M Williams
[I have sent a similar note to cross project list, but in case anyone follows wtp-dev, but not cross-project list, I'll repeat it here.] WTP has updated to a Juno based p2 publisher so the repository it produces will treat optional dependencies as non greedy. See bug 247099 [1] and the p2

[wtp-dev] changes coming to javax.servlet in Juno M4

2011-12-01 Thread David M Williams
Heads up As mentioned in the status meeting today, Equinox will be picking up a new version of javax.servlet (and hence, will be in the platform we use). This just today showed up in an Orbit I build, which will become Orbit's S build on Friday (unless someone contributes something else

[wtp-dev] How to say more about our Target Environments in our WTP Plan?

2011-11-09 Thread David M Williams
I have attempted to beef up the Target Environments section in our WTP Plan to say a little more about platforms supported, and especially the minimum level of Java we assume. Please check it out, and see if this wording matches everyone's expectations. I mostly just want to be explicit and

[wtp-dev] Please review our planned Compatibility with previous releases

2011-11-09 Thread David M Williams
Similar to the Target Environments, I am going to encourage all projects to better specify their Compatibility with previous releases. I went and looked at our wtp-plan.xml file to see if we provided a good example, and it appears we have left that section of our plan completely blank for the

[wtp-dev] Who, in WTP, will be in Juno?

2011-10-18 Thread David M Williams
The Eclipse Foundation recently added 'juno' to their list of 'simultaneousrelease' flags in their metadata for projects. I wanted to test if some of the summary pages were working, so needed some data, so I signed up webtools to be in Juno. No controversy there ... I hope! By looking at

[wtp-dev] Any dependencies on javax.servlet?

2011-10-10 Thread David M Williams
And I know there is :) Those that depend on it tightly ... either directly from platform or WTP or from adopter runtimes ... will want to be sure to follow or comment on bug 360245. 360245 - javax.servlet package versions for the serlvet 3 specification Thanks,

[wtp-dev] Juno proposed plan for dual platforms, but one stream

2011-09-07 Thread David M Williams
As promised at status and PMC meetings, I have written down a proposed plan item for Juno related to our proposed support for 2 platforms in Juno time-frame; it is pasted at end of this note, as well as in our standard format plan. As we move forward, this will be part of our overall WTP

[wtp-dev] Proposing to remove webtools.website access control and use webtools instead

2011-09-06 Thread David M Williams
Committers, We currently have custom access control to our website files which are stored in cvs, under www/webtools, as well as a custom, separate, hand administered write access to our downloads area. (And, its not entirely our fault ... we just got an early start, before there were

[wtp-dev] Change to make Carl Anderson Project Lead for webtools.datatools

2011-08-23 Thread David M Williams
This change is largely a technicality, but, posting here in the spirit of being open and transparent. Those of you that have been involved with WTP for a long time, will recall long ago, for the first year or so, we had a datatools project in WTP, before the committers and code there split

[wtp-dev] Let's cancel the JavaScript IDE package?

2011-08-23 Thread David M Williams
As I have mentioned to some of you before, I think it best we cancel the JavaScript IDE Package. There's nothing wrong with it, and some interest in it, judging from the 70,000 downloads for Indigo version ... but, in the interest of economy, I think installing its few features with p2 is not

[wtp-dev] Nomination of Carl Anderson to be Web Tools Releng Project Lead

2011-08-09 Thread David M Williams
Yes, we do have a WTP Releng Project :) And, it is my honor to nominate Carl Anderson to become the new Lead of that project, replacing myself. (I would continue as a committer on the project). Carl has taken over the main week-to-week releng duties and is poised to guide the project as it

Re: [wtp-dev] Nomination of Carl Anderson to be Web Tools Releng Project Lead

2011-08-09 Thread David M Williams
, that David was referring to. :-) FWIW, - Carl Anderson WTP Build guy | | From: | | --| |David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS

Re: [wtp-dev] Resigning as project lead for WTP Server tools

2011-08-08 Thread David M Williams
To conclude, the committer vote has succeeded, the PMC has approved, the EMOD has approved, and the databases and records at the Eclipse Foundation have been updated [1]. Thank you, Angel, for your leadership over the years, and welcome, Elson, as the new Project Lead for Server Tools. [1]

Re: [wtp-dev] What happend to http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/indigo/ ?

2011-06-15 Thread David M Williams
I broke it while cleaning up milestones in preparation for release. I can restore it, but, be warned. M7 was the last time we ever updated it. So, I'll restore that. Adopters/builders/packagers should use the build-specific repository URLs (and, update to latest, as new builds become

[wtp-dev] Quiet week begins ... with our RC4b

2011-06-08 Thread David M Williams
I think we are done now. Some potential last minute problems I think have been solved satisfactorily without us having to respin, which means our RC4b build will become our Indigo R build next week, as we prepare the final stages of the release.

[wtp-dev] WTP 3.2.4 (Helios stream) is now available

2011-05-20 Thread David M Williams
The Helios extended maintenance release for WTP 3.2.4 is now available. Downloads can be found at http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R3.2.4/R-3.2.4-20110511033327/ Or obtained from the webtools repository: http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios It depends

[wtp-dev] Small change to WTP 3.2.4 release schedule: now is 5/20.

2011-05-11 Thread David M Williams
Our WTP 3.2.4 release (extended maintenance on Helios stream) was due to be released on 5/13, this Friday. But, our quality conscious committers found we had introduced a regression [1] and proposed fixing it, even though it required a re-build during our quiet week which we use as a safety

[wtp-dev] Announcing availability of WTP 3.2.3 with Helios SR2

2011-02-25 Thread David M Williams
It is finally here. http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R3.2.3/R-3.2.3-20110217214612/ Most existing installs should be able to update to this level with the Check for Updates function, or installed directly from the common repository at

Re: [wtp-dev] Can we have some more milestone tags in Bugzilla?

2011-02-11 Thread David M Williams
Done. Let me know if I missed any, or you need anything else. From: Gabriel Petrovay gabipetro...@gmail.com To: wtp-dev wtp-dev@eclipse.org Cc: David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS Date: 02/09/2011 01:06 PM Subject:Can we have some more milestone tags in Bugzilla? Hi

Re: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.2.3-M: M-3.2.3-20110211193042

2011-02-11 Thread David M Williams
, to test they are downloadable, installable, etc. Thanks to everyone for making this candidate (and release) possible. I think the ramp-down went well, and appreciate everyone reacting to the last minute churn to move to the new compiler version. From: David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS

[wtp-dev] Please test packages and software repositories

2011-02-05 Thread David M Williams
Committers and adopters, please test the latest EPP Packages and software repositories. Especially look for regressions in Helios SR2 candidates since we are nearly done (that is, we do not plan to fix too many more known bugs for SR2, but would if anyone soon reports a bad regression). Note:

[wtp-dev] Our sixth migration guide!?

2011-01-30 Thread David M Williams
Hard to believe we are up to 6 ... but if I can count right, we are. I've created a bare outline document at http://wiki.eclipse.org/New_Help_for_Old_Friends_VI I have included subproject headings similar to what we've had before ... but feel free to remove, add, or edit how ever you'd like.

Re: [wtp-dev] Top level WTP features

2011-01-28 Thread David M Williams
I'll paste below what are currently the 19 sdk features we build from our 3 build-time-assembly features. We currently build only sdk features and they of course pull in runtime and source (and doc) features. It appears we end up with 102 features in current builds (which surprises even me!).

[wtp-dev] Correction to our M5 schedule ... it is this week, not next!

2011-01-24 Thread David M Williams
Apologies for the error, but a typo (that I made) in the cross-project SimRel calendar (bug 335184) got carried over into our WTP calendar as well. This means our Indigo M5 +2 date is 2/1 (instead of 2/8) which means our final build for M5 is this week, not next. I hope everyone can adjust

Re: [wtp-dev] Note change in call-in phone number for status meetings - reminder

2010-12-02 Thread David M Williams
Since we didn't meet last week, after this first announcement, I thought it'd be worth one more reminder that our status call number has changed. Talk to you this afternoon. From: David M Williams/Raleigh/i...@ibmus To: wtp-pmc wtp-...@eclipse.org, wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 11/21

Re: [wtp-dev] WsDomStartupParticipant

2010-11-23 Thread David M Williams
Is this the same as bug 168556? (Just curious ... your question would still be valid, and in need of an answer, either way ... but if same, perhaps could be discussed there ... or a new bug open, if a different startup participant. From: Cameron Bateman cameron.bate...@oracle.com To:

[wtp-dev] Heads up that this week we are moving to providing two big archived repositories (instead of six smaller ones)

2010-10-04 Thread David M Williams
Its been mentioned on this list before, but now it is being implemented this week. Instead of the 6 archived p2 repositories that we have been making available with each build, I plan to package things up into only two. One would be all the WTP code (executable, and SDK features) and

[wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.2.2-M: R-3.2.2-20100915173744 for Helios SR1

2010-09-24 Thread David M Williams
cases (it depends a bit on exactly how and what is installed in current IDE). In any case, greatest thanks to you all ... committers and users! From: David M Williams/Raleigh/i...@ibmus To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org, wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 09/24/2010 03:50 PM Subject:[wtp-dev

Re: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.2.2-M: M-3.2.2-20100915173744

2010-09-16 Thread David M Williams
tweak the download page to put final URLs for our pre-reqs. This final download page will not be linked from main download page until release day, 9/24. Thanks, From: David M Williams/Raleigh/i...@ibmus To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org, wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 09/16/2010 02:35 AM Subject

[wtp-dev] WTP to be a a few hours late for final contribution to SR1

2010-09-15 Thread David M Williams
Just to keep everyone informed, we in WTP caught a last minute regression (caused by a last minute fix) so we are going to respin our final build. The change involves how previous version EJB projects are handled and shouldn't effect downstream consumers, or require anyone to rebuild or

[wtp-dev] Notice that preliminary support for HTML5 will be in WTP Service Release 3.2.2 (Helios SR1)

2010-09-01 Thread David M Williams
We (the WTP PMC and Source Editing Project) wanted to be sure to communicate well to the community that our upcoming service release will contain preliminary source editing support for HTML5. See bug 292415. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292415 We wanted to announce this on

RE: [wtp-dev] Service Interface Data Types Editor Contribution Proposal

2010-08-19 Thread David M Williams
used in Bugzilla account? Have I somehow mangled the name? Thanks, From: David M Williams/Raleigh/i...@ibmus To: WTP Incubator Dev list wtp-incubator-...@eclipse.org Cc: General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues. wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 08/12/2010 04:34 PM Subject: RE

RE: [wtp-dev] Service Interface Data Types Editor Contribution Proposal

2010-08-12 Thread David M Williams
Thanks for this proposal. I wanted to keep you (and community) up to date. The proposal looks good but one of the people wanting to review it more is on vacation, so I'd like to be polite and give him a chance to get back and comment further, if he has any further comments. We should get that

[wtp-dev] Good news for running WTP on Eclipse 4.0

2010-08-12 Thread David M Williams
Many thanks to the committers for fixing the few compile errors when building against 4.0 this week. Such as, see http://build.eclipse.org/webtools/committers/wtpe4-R3.3.0-I/20100812113302/I-3.3.0-20100812113302/ And while we haven't done unit tests or full smoke tests yet, we do have some

Re: [wtp-dev] documentation error

2010-08-10 Thread David M Williams
I've marked 3.2.1 as complete. And, changed the repository to http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios as that is the most current and moving forward repository. The old http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/ will be left in place for a long time, as that has some old

[wtp-dev] Re: Target Milestone labels

2010-08-04 Thread David M Williams
wait and someday we'll have a more focused effort and do a more complete cleanup, instead of asking webmasters for a few at time. Hope they are not too confusing in the meantime. Thanks, From: Gabriel Petrovay gabipetro...@gmail.com To: wtp-dev wtp-dev@eclipse.org, David M Williams/Raleigh

RE: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.2.1-M: M-3.2.1-20100725060634

2010-07-28 Thread David M Williams
Do we expect that the 3.2.1 release appears on the WTP update site too? Yes and no. Yes, it will be added to the webtools specific repository, at http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios/ once we officially release, on Friday. But, not the common repo at

Re: [wtp-dev] Skipping this weeks Status meeting ... and smoke test?

2010-06-29 Thread David M Williams
Well, Happy Birthday, Canada. :) And thanks for the warning. I actually had this on my calendar but failed to think through the significance until now. And, the significance (in this context) is that Thursday is also our planned day for our first declared 3.2.1 build, which, as always,

[wtp-dev] poor man's introduction to eclipse 4.0

2010-06-29 Thread David M Williams
Earlier today I agreed to post some information about Eclipse 4.0. Last I heard, they are still planning an Early Adopter release the end of July (RC1 is this week). As discussed in status meetings, the hope is that in WTP 3.3 our plugins will work with both 4.1 and 3.7 (both planned for

Re: [wtp-dev] Fwd: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.10.0 now available

2010-06-19 Thread David M Williams
Thanks Dave! And Mukul and Jesper. This is community building at its best! From: David Carver d_a_car...@yahoo.com To: General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues. wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 06/19/2010 12:30 PM Subject: [wtp-dev] Fwd: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.10.0

[wtp-dev] We need a respin for Helios, after all

2010-06-15 Thread David M Williams
How embarrassing. Despite all the tools and tests we've added to fix and check license files, one bug has gone unnoticed until now. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=316979 The files were there in cvs ... but the build.properties not updated to include them. I think the only

[wtp-dev] Small change to subset wst zip name on downloads page, coming in RC4

2010-06-08 Thread David M Williams
This note only concerns the (traditional) zip file name for the web development subset of features. In putting some final touches on the build (bug 315919), it was easier (and safer) to use some common scripts, and accept the default name for the zip files ... rather than try and special case

[wtp-dev] Significant change coming in WTP packaging for RC3

2010-05-28 Thread David M Williams
It is far later than it should be, to be making this kind of change, so I am sending this notice to wtp-dev list and cross-project list to make sure it gets proper visibility. In WTP, the JEE and the JSF subprojects have regrouped a set of JSF bundles that used to be mingled in with the JEE

Re: [wtp-dev] subversion

2010-05-22 Thread David M Williams
Lance, subversion hasn't really caught on at Eclipse (though a few projects happily use it) and now GIT is considered the future at Eclipse (if not next generation). But I can not imagine what led you to this mailing list to ask this question. You'll probably want to read some of the new

Re: [wtp-dev] Did WebTool drop support for Ganymede?

2010-05-13 Thread David M Williams
Yes, we intentionally have not, in the past, maintained any old builds at the update site repository. We will start doing so (at a different repository URL) for Helios. They are still at archives.eclipse.org, in various zip file distributions. Thanks, From: Gabriel Petrovay

Re: [wtp-dev] Re: CVS Problmes?

2010-04-18 Thread David M Williams
Thanks for letting us know, Gabriel, and opening the bug. In the mean time, I can offer two tips that might help, now, and even routinely. 1) I recently learned you can use ext (extssh) with your committer id even for projects where you are not a committer. You can't write to them (of course)

[wtp-dev] Capabilities? Who has capabilities?

2010-04-06 Thread David M Williams
We do, for one. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_Capabilities_Helios I've written this document to comply with simultaneous release requirements. And, we do make use of them in the Java EE IDE package (or, will, in M7). I'm posting this here for general awareness, especially for WTP

Re: [wtp-dev] Who needs javax.servlet.jsp 2.1?

2010-04-02 Thread David M Williams
assuming no at this point. Best Regards, -- -- Mr. Angel Vera Server Tools Developer E-Mail: arv...@ca.ibm.com Tel: 905-413-5919 - Those who think that something is impossible, should not interfere with those who are willing to do it. - Angel Vera From: David M Williams david_willi

[wtp-dev] Who needs javax.servlet.jsp 2.1?

2010-03-31 Thread David M Williams
Anyone? If so, there's a few issues to work out and test, etc. 1. The bundle in orbit was split up from what 2.0 used to be. So to get it all we'll need to get several new bundles. For details, see http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orbit-dev/msg01739.html I'll need you experts (Nitin?,

Re: [wtp-dev] new downloads page

2010-03-19 Thread David M Williams
I'm not sure what that means. :-) I guess I'm supposed to unzip them and see what happens? Where 'ya been? :) Off hand, I'm not sure where this is documented well, but there's a lot of mailing list and bugzillas about them. They are exactly like a repository you'd get via HTTP, but zipped

[wtp-dev] No Status meeting next Thursday ... but still a declared build

2010-03-19 Thread David M Williams
I completely forgot to mention during status meeting yesterday ... I think we should skip the usual weekly status call on Thursday, 3/25, since several of us will be at EclipseCon. But if someone still wants it, let us know. And feel free to ask questions or raise issues on mailing lists ...

Re: [wtp-dev] new downloads page

2010-03-19 Thread David M Williams
. :) I hope others can report success or similar problems and maybe get the issues narrowed down. As far as I know, there could be order effects, or something. Thanks, David! Brian [attachment p2.JPG deleted by David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM] ___ wtp-dev

Re: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for xquery-R0.7.0-I: I-0.7.0-20100317233124

2010-03-18 Thread David M Williams
After I promoted this build, I thought to renamed it to reflect that is it M2, so its download URL is now http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R0.7.0/S-0.7.0M2-20100317233124/ From: David M Williams/Raleigh/i...@ibmus To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 03/18/2010 01:31 PM Subject

Re: [wtp-dev] Breaking changes to IServer

2010-03-08 Thread David M Williams
but I rather release the changes now than having to file for an exception in M7 and give the PMC more work in M7 I'm not saying if releasing this potentially breaking change the last week of M6 is a good or bad thing to do ... that's mostly between your project committers and adopters, but I

[wtp-dev] It's nice to be noticed ...

2010-03-04 Thread David M Williams
for our new website, that is. http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/eclipsewebmaster/2010/03/04/have-you-seen-the-new-webtools-website/ Now all we have to do is get content that equals the graphics :) Thanks Naci and Ugur ___ wtp-dev mailing list

[wtp-dev] Vote for JAX-WS Move Concludes

2010-03-04 Thread David M Williams
: [wtp-dev] Webservices Committers: need vote for JAX-WS Move Valentin Baciu Re: [wtp-dev] Webservices Committers: need vote for JAX-WS Move Keith Chong [wtp-dev] Webservices Committers: need vote for JAX-WS Move David M Williams This will become formally effective after the Move Review

[wtp-dev] Note that archived P2 repositories are repositioned on download pages

2010-03-03 Thread David M Williams
I just wanted to give some warning that the structure of the download pages has changed so that the zipped p2 repositories have moved up on the page, above the traditional zips. This is to encourage their use, over time, but may cause some confusion at first, if anyone just downloads them and

[wtp-dev] Friends of WTP meeting planned for EclipseCon

2010-03-03 Thread David M Williams
For those of you going to EclipseCon this month, I have reserved a time and place we can meet to discuss WTP. It will be Tuesday evening, 6 to 7 (local, Pacific time) in the Central room (it is on the second floor of the Hyatt).

[wtp-dev] What is status of Pave?

2010-02-28 Thread David M Williams
To check some build changes I made, I was building everything this evening, and was surprised Pave has a bunch of compile errors ... unrelated to my changes, I think looks more like some non-API use of something in one of the prereqs changed. I wasn't all that surprised by compile

RE: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.1.2-M: R-3.1.2-20100211202452

2010-02-26 Thread David M Williams
Its probably supposed to be their 1.7.2 RC3 candidate. I blindly updated our page based on what was in their released download directory. Same question was asked on cross-project and I suspect they'll answer and update soon I'll update ours so nothing shows up, until they get current.

[wtp-dev] Webservices Committers: need vote for JAX-WS Move

2010-02-24 Thread David M Williams
Webservices Committers, I hope you all know by now that the JAX-WS team has formally applied to move from the WTP Incubator Project to the Webservices Project, where it will plan to Release with Helios, in June. They have been well integrated with WTP's builds, processes, and weekly rhythm,

[wtp-dev] Change to WTP Retention Policy: repos are forever

2010-02-23 Thread David M Williams
I have update our WTP retention policy, found at http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP/Retention_Policy The substantial change was that our update site repositories will now exist forever, to line up with current recommended practice. This is partially a result of the Equinox Team twisting my arm ...

[wtp-dev] Final Java EE IDE Packages ready for final testing

2010-02-18 Thread David M Williams
If you are able, please help test the probably final Java EE IDE Packages. Today (Friday) is best, but anytime before next Wednesday would be helpful. (If a bad problem is found, at least we'd know about it before the release). Currently, it is the 20100218-1611 build on

Re: [wtp-dev] webtools.jsdt project provisioned: what's next?

2010-02-17 Thread David M Williams
Congratulations! One thing that's next is the bugzilla components. The jsdt and javascript that's in WTP Source Editing product can (and should) be moved to the new JSDT product. (I know, it's nice seeing no bugs, eh? :) The webmasters can help with that. Just open a bug under 'community',

Re: [wtp-dev] DSDP Target Management in Java EE kit?

2010-02-08 Thread David M Williams
It was last release too ... or do you mean you see something new? There are functions in RSE to SSH to remote servers, copy files from workspace to or from a remote machine. These are things that many (or, at least some) web developers do, so seemed like a natural way to include some useful

RE: [wtp-dev] DSDP Target Management in Java EE kit?

2010-02-08 Thread David M Williams
it’s a positioning issue, but unlike Mylyn, it’s not immediately obvious that RSE has general applicability. - Konstantin From: wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of David M Williams Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 11:07 AM To: General discussion

[wtp-dev] Confirmation Vote for Carl Anderson as Common Project Lead

2010-02-02 Thread David M Williams
Konstantin Komissarchik has resigned his role as WTP Common Project Lead, due to increasing time commitments in other areas of his work. We thank him for his many, great, past contributions to WTP ... and his future ones! He will remain as a committer, and we sincerely look forward to continuing

Re: [wtp-dev] Is EMF Validation a pre-req for 3.1.2?

2010-02-02 Thread David M Williams
The later. emf.validation is a pre-req of only JAXWS features, which is in only WTP 3.2. I've opened bug 301591 to track repair of web page that is generated during a build. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=301591 From: Konstantin Komissarchik

Re: [wtp-dev] Failing build

2010-01-08 Thread David M Williams
Tough one to track down. Well, I'm still guessing a little, but I think its related to JUnit 3 vs. 4, maybe complicated by the fact you are still running (mostly) with Galileo pre-reqs. But, to guess ... I notice you added back tight ranges for JUnit pre-req, e.g.

[wtp-dev] Project Leads: please update your meta-data ... today!

2009-12-18 Thread David M Williams
Today is the deadline for marking intent to participate in Simultaneous Release. webtools.dali webtools.sourceediting webtools.webservices where's server tools? jsf? jee? ejb? common? For any of you not at the status meeting yesterday, this is requested by the EMO as the formal mechanism

[wtp-dev] Helios M4 available

2009-12-18 Thread David M Williams
For those of you that don't follow cross-project list ... it is now official! Greatest thanks for making our WTP M4 so easy for me ... Happy New Year! - Forwarded by David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM on 12/18/2009 12:46 PM - From: Markus Knauer mkna...@eclipsesource.com To: EPP

Re: [wtp-dev] Shh ... Declaring Build for wtp-R3.2.0-S: S-3.2.0M4-20091210120653

2009-12-10 Thread David M Williams
lists, since that's primarily for committers and adopters. If casual (but brave) end-users went to get M4 now, they might be confused to find the final M4 of Platform, EMF, etc., are not even ready yet. Thanks, From: David M Williams/Raleigh/i...@ibmus To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 12/10

[wtp-dev] JUnit 4: Am I silly and embarrassed? Or missing something?

2009-12-06 Thread David M Williams
Or all of the above? With the recent notes about the inclusion of org.junit version 4, and from following several bugs, I got the impression that we _had_ to make the kind of adjustments so well described in http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Testing/JUnit4_Changes or else our tests would fail.

[wtp-dev] Informally Promoted Build for wtp-R3.2.0-I: I-3.2.0-20091127073002

2009-11-27 Thread David M Williams
At our status meeting last week, we decided we would not have a declared build this week, since so many were out on holiday. But a few days after the meeting, some committers (not in the US :) said they would like a build promoted to 'downloads' to enable some early adopter testing and

[wtp-dev] Plans for next week ... ?

2009-11-17 Thread David M Williams
During this week's status meeting, I'd like to decide what to do about next week's I-build and status meeting. Thursday, 11/26, is a holiday in the US, and some people take off several days of the week, if not all week. So, I'd like to propose we skip having a declared I-build and status

[wtp-dev] Can we remove performance test bundles?

2009-11-16 Thread David M Williams
From a quick look, these are the performance test bundles we still compile each build, but never use. ./org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.core.tests.performance ./org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.tests.performance ./org.eclipse.jst.jsp.ui.tests.performance ./org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.tests.performance

[wtp-dev] Respinning for 3.1.1

2009-09-17 Thread David M Williams
Sorry to say we needed a respin for 3.1.1 after all. One of the blocking hotbugs we fixed for this release (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287096) had a small flaw that rendered it useless in context and unfortunately this error was not discovered until just today. I think there

[wtp-dev] Hotbug process document revised and ...

2009-09-08 Thread David M Williams
WTP Committers and Community, I have written a new hotbug process document. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP/Hotbug_Policy My intent was to clarify the process to avoid some common misconceptions I have heard, as well as make it match more closely what we actually, currently do with

Re: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.2-S: S-3.2M1-20090813235332 -- almost M1

2009-08-14 Thread David M Williams
just rename it to an S build. So, no reason for committers to hold off on further commits today (Yes, that includes you, Carl :) But I wanted to warn adopters that this declared S-build is not quite our final M1. I'll re-declare another S-build once it's ready. Thanks, From: David M

Re: [wtp-dev] Declaring Build for wtp-R3.2-I: S-3.2M1b-20090814143519

2009-08-14 Thread David M Williams
if you just look at the main download URL http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/ ... just in case case anyone wants signed content, or or something. Sorry for the churn. From: David M Williams/Raleigh/i...@ibmus To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 08/14/2009 05:48 PM Subject: [wtp-dev

Re: [wtp-dev] WTP 3.2 Release ... and PsychoPath XPath 2.0 processor

2009-08-13 Thread David M Williams
Thanks Dave and Mukul for letting us know. My personal apologies for not talking to you first-hand about this before the announcement. But, given the talks with everyone else, we (the PMC) knew the decision about WTP as a whole would not change based on the few committers we had not talked to

Re: [wtp-dev] CSSTokenizer CVS location

2009-08-12 Thread David M Williams
I believe they are all in sse.core, e.g. /org.eclipse.wst.sse.core/DevTimeSupport/SedModel/CSSTokenizer/devel/CSSTokenizer.jflex From: Roy Ganor r...@zend.com To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org Date: 08/12/2009 11:15 AM Subject: [wtp-dev] CSSTokenizer CVS location Sent by: wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org

[wtp-dev] WTP 3.2 Release moved to June

2009-08-12 Thread David M Williams
After discussions with Committers and Adopters, the WTP PMC has decided that WTP as a whole will not have a December Release, as originally planned. Thus, WTP 3.2 will be in June, 2010, as part of the Helios Simultaneous Release. The original reason for the off-cycle release was to release some

Re: [wtp-dev] JDK7 support

2009-08-06 Thread David M Williams
Do you have a need/interest that is specific to Web Tools and JDK7? I'm curious. Unless there is some web related feature in JDK 7 you are asking about, I'd suggest you ask on the Eclipse Platform newsgroup, or the JDT newsgroup. I didn't look very hard, but found one related, but old,

[wtp-dev] WTP this week ...

2009-07-08 Thread David M Williams
Ready to crank it up again? I suggest we start having declared weekly I-build starting this week (which means tomorrow; back to the no-code-Thursdays rhythm). I'll issue a smoke test request tomorrow (Thursday) morning and if anyone has trouble complying due to short notice, just say so.

[wtp-dev] Reminder no status meeting ... and thanks!

2009-06-25 Thread David M Williams
Remember there is no status meeting today, 6/25, nor next week, 7/2. If there's any questions or issues that come up, please just ask on one of our lists. In our next meeting, 7/9, we'll spend some time having a software postmortem for our Galileo release; try and capture any facts about the

Re: [wtp-dev] Trouble updating

2009-06-25 Thread David M Williams
Upgrading to Galileo from 3.4.2 (or WTP 3.0.4) is not supported. I recommend you start with one of the distributions at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ such as Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers and then install other things, if not provided in that distribution. HTH From: Campbell,

RE: [wtp-dev] Trouble updating

2009-06-25 Thread David M Williams
Message- From: wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of David M Williams Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:59 PM To: General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues. Subject: Re: [wtp-dev] Trouble updating Upgrading to Galileo from 3.4.2 (or WTP

[wtp-dev] Please help test latest EPP Java EE IDE Package

2009-06-04 Thread David M Williams
I hope it's just me ... but I tested for about an hour on two platforms and immediately found 3 bugs! All of them bad, even if a few are probably intermittent. 279191 JEE Preview Server won't start 279193 NPE while programmatically switching to console view 279195 Debug breakpoints don't break

Re: [wtp-dev] Time for finishing touches on Release Review Docuware

2009-05-29 Thread David M Williams
and Tools Usability sections in the document. I did it in the odt version in CVS. Hopefully all other potential editors were asleep at that very moment. Greetings, Kaloyan -Original Message- From: wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of David M

[wtp-dev] Time for finishing touches on Release Review Docuware

2009-05-28 Thread David M Williams
I've made a first pass at or Release Review docuware, but now need to ask other PMC members and Project Leads to review and fix up your special sections: A web version is visible at http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releaseReviews/200906/WebTools3.1.pdf and you can find/edit the 'odt' version

[wtp-dev] RC1 test/signoff on Tuesday, instead of Monday

2009-05-15 Thread David M Williams
We accounted for Memorial Day (U.S.) in our calendar, but I've just learned that Canada has holidays too! One of them, Victoria Day, is on Monday, the 18th. So, I think it best if we skip Monday and just plan on doing the tests and signoffs on Tuesday 19th, as we will for Memorial day, the

[wtp-dev] Update test documentation, please

2009-05-13 Thread David M Williams
I guess it is ridiculously late to request you update test documentation, so I will leave it up to each subproject if you do or do not -- or, maybe you already have! But, I did at least create a 3.1 page, and just copied over the content from the 3.0 page.

[wtp-dev] What is our retention policy in WTP?

2009-04-08 Thread David M Williams
Why, that is answered right here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP/Retention_Policy Which I just put there. I would have sworn we had one written somewhere, but I couldn't find it. So wrote that new one. I think it's the kind of policy we all sort of know and understand, but have never written

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