Project Plan For EMF Facet, version 0.3
Introduction
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This document lays out the feature and API set for the next
release of EMF Facet (EMFT Project), version 0.3. This project plan
inherits from the Modeling Project Plan, which should be referenced
when consulting this individual project plan.
Release Deliverables
The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most
Eclipse projects, namely:
- EMFT EMF Facet SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
Release Milestones
Release milestones occur at roughly 6 week intervals and
follow the Platform milestone releases by approximately 1 week&
that is, until the final 4.3 release of the Platform, upon which
EMFT EMF Facet and other projects will release simultaneously. As
EMFT EMF Facet depends on other projects, it will deliver its
milestones at the +2 schedule in accordance with the schedule below.
| M1 | 08/21/2012 | |
| M2 | 10/02/2012 | |
| M3 | 11/13/2012 | |
| M4 | 12/18/2012 | |
| M5 | 02/03/2013 | |
| M6 | 03/19/2013 | (API Freeze) |
| M7 | 05/07/2013 | (Feature Freeze) |
| RC1 | 05/21/2013 | |
| RC2 | 05/28/2013 | |
| RC3 | 06/04/2013 | |
| RC4 | 06/11/2013 | |
| Kepler | 06/26/2013 |
EMFT EMF Facet will produce maintenance releases to align with the
Juno service releases (SR), that includes the Eclipse Platform
4.2.1
and 4.2.2 releases. EMFT EMF Facet may produce interim
maintenance
releases in addition to these in order to satisfy client
requests.
- Friday, September 28, 2012 - EMFT EMF Facet 0.2.1 maintenance release (Juno Service Release 1)
- Friday, February 22, 2013 - EMFT EMF Facet 0.2.2 maintenance release (Juno Service Release 2)
Target Environments
In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets
reasonably current versions of the underlying operating environments.
The Eclipse EMFT EMF Facet project depends upon on the Platform and
other projects, which are mostly "pure" Java. The 4.3 release of the
Eclipse Platform Project is written and compiled against version 5.0
of the Java Platform APIs, and targeted to run on version 5.0 of the
Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition. EMF Facet will target the
same Java version as EMF, which currently also requires Java 5.
Eclipse Platform SDK 4.3 will be tested and validated on a number of
reference platforms. EMFT EMF Facet will be tested and validated
against a subset of those listed for the platform.
Internationalization
The Eclipse Platform is designed as the basis for
internationalized products. The user interface elements provided by
the Eclipse SDK components, including dialogs and error messages,
are externalized.
The English strings are provided as the default
resource bundles. As a result, the EMFT EMF Facet project will
provide English strings in its default bundles and be localized to a
subset of those locales offered by the Platform.
Compatibility with Previous Releases
Compatibility of Release 0.3.0: The EMFT EMF Facet project will be
developed in parallel, and released simultaneously, with the
following projects. As stated above, each milestone release of the
EMFT EMF Facet project will be compatible with the corresponding
milestones for each of these projects, and delivered the appropriate
offset.
- Eclipse Platform SDK version 4.3
- Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) version 2.9
- Eclipse Model Development Tools (MDT) UML2 version 4.1
Themes and Priorities
A list of project requirements and agreed upon
implementation time frames is found in this document. For the
milestones listed in this document, a set of overall themes is used
to indicate what major set of functionalities is to be concentrated
on for each. These themes are presented below, while the
requirements document and associated Bugzilla entries are left to
those wanting more detailed information on each.
Restructuring
The main goal of this year is to finish the migration of
features from MDT MoDisco (Query Manager and Facet Manager
components) to EMF Facet.
This restructuring is a priority otherwise
we will not be able to provide stable and usable software. That's
why non critical bugs will be fixed after this restructuring.
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Service, Support and Maintenance
Service and support will take priority over new
development work, however this year the restructuring has the
highest priority. Commitments and schedules are subject to
arbitrary change, slippage, or even deferral.
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Appendix Legal Notices
- Java is a trademark or a registered trademark of Oracle and Sun, Inc.
- UML is trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc.
- All other products or company names are mentioned for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.