Project Plan For Papyrus, version Juno

Introduction

This document lays out the feature and API set for the incoming release of the Eclipse Papyrus (MDT Papyrus) Project, version 0.9.0 This project plan inherits from the Modeling Project Plan, which should be referenced when consulting this individual project plan. In addition to the detailled items listed below, the papyrus team will ensure the maintenance of its existing plug-ins.

Release Deliverables

The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:
  • MDT Papyrus source code release, available as versions tagged "0.9.0" in the project's SVN repository.
  • MDT Papyrus SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • MDT Papyrus runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • MDT Papyrus stand-alone binary distribution (downloadable).
  • MDT Papyrus tests (downloadable)
  • MDT Papyrus examples (downloadable)

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Release Milestones

Release milestone occurring at roughly 6 week intervals and follow the Platform milestone releases by approximately 3 day; that is, until the final 3.8 release of the Platform, upon which Papyrus and other projects will release simultaneously. As Papyrus is a dependency of numerous other projects, Papyrus will deliver its milestones within three days of the Eclipse Platform. It is anticipated that Papyrus will synchronize its milestones with the Juno milestone schedule.
M108/17/2011
M209/28/2011
M311/09/2011
M412/14/2011
M502/01/2012
M603/14/2012
API Freeze
M705/09/2012
Feature Freeze
RC105/23/2012
RC205/30/2012
RC306/06/2012
RC406/13/2012
Juno06/29/2012
Papyrus will produce maintenance releases to align with the Juno SR releases, that includes the Eclipse Platform 3.8.1 and 3.8.2 releases. Papyrus may produce interim maintenance releases in addition to these in order to satisfy clients requests.
  • Friday, September 26, 2012 - Papyrus 0.9.1 maintenance release (Juno Service Release 1)
  • Friday, February 26, 2013 - Papyrus 0.9.2 maintenance release (Juno Service Release 2)

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Target Environments

In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets reasonably current versions of the underlying operating environments. The Eclipse Papyrus project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which are mostly "pure" Java. The 3.8 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. Papyrus will target the same Java version as EMF and UML2, which currently require Java 5. Eclipse Platform SDK 3.8 will be tested and validated on a number of reference platforms. MDT Papyrus 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 Papyrus project will provide English strings in its default bundles and be localized to a subset of those locales offered by the Platform. This plan will be updated to indicate which locales will be provided and the time frame for availability.

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Compatibility with Previous Releases

The Papyrus 0.9.0 project will be developed in parallel, and released simultaneously, with the following projects. As stated above, each milestone release of the Papyrus 0.9.0 project will be compatible with the corresponding milestones for each of these projects, and delivered the appropriate offset.
  • Eclipse Platform SDK version 3.8
  • Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) version 2.8
  • Model Development Tools (MDT) UML2 version 4.0
  • Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) version 2.4

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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.

Editors

This theme addresses issues related the diagram editors of Papyrus. It concerns more precisely all generic features related any kind of Papyrus diagram editor. For the UML2, it concerns following diagram editors: [Class diagram], [Package diagram], [Composite structure diagram], [Component diagram], [Profile diagram], [Use case diagram], [State machine diagram], [Protocol state machine diagram], [Activity diagram], [Sequence diagram], [Communications diagram], [Interactions overview Diagram], [Timing diagram]. For the SysML, it concerns following specific diagram editors: [Activity diagram], [Block definition diagram], [Internal block diagram], [Package diagram], [Parametric diagram], [Requirements diagram], [Sequence diagram], and [State machine diagram].

  • Committed

    • [ALF editor] Papyrus shall provide a specific textual editor for ALF. [329865] (target milestone: M6)
    • [All diagrams] Profiles should be automatically refreshed [370816] (target milestone: M6)
    • [Profile - Packaging] When exporting a Model, we should also package the local profiles [370817] (target milestone: M6)
    • [Global] A Flexible Drag & Drop framework [370819] (target milestone: M6)
    • [General] Papyrus shall use the GMF Command framework. (Rewrite GMF Actions with the Eclipse Framework) [330181] (target milestone: M6)
    • [UML - Import] It should be possible to import models by copy [370818] (target milestone: M6)
    • [UML2] Papyrus shall provide a generic name resolution mechanism [371387] (target milestone: M6)
    • [UML - Constraints] Allow the editing of OCL Constraints through an OCL Editor [370815] (target milestone: M6)
    • [SysML Internal Block Diagram] Support for ActorPart [372234] (target milestone: M6)
    • [SysML Block Definition Diagram] Support for ActorPart [372235] (target milestone: M6)
    • [SysML Internal Block Diagram] Support for simple Property [372236] (target milestone: M6)
    • [All Diagrams] Papyrus shall enable to display stereotype properties in a dedicated compartment. [330176] (target milestone: M5)
    • [UML Compare] Papyrus shall use service edit when merging models [371390] (target milestone: M6)

Extensibility

This theme addresses the need for extensiblity improvements of the MDT Papyrus implementation and APIs. It concerns more precisely all features related to following concerns: [Backbone] and [Metatooling].

  • Committed

    • [General] Papyrus shall provide an interface to easily install additional components [379570] (target milestone: M7)

Scalability

This theme addresses the need for scalability and performance improvements of the MDT Papyrus implementation and APIs.

  • Committed

    • [Scalability] Papyrus shall provide performance tests. [329863] (target milestone: M7)

Usability

This theme addresses the need for usability improvements of the MDT Papyrus implementation and APIs. It concerns more precisely all features related to following concerns: [Palette], [Property View], [Model Explorer], [Sash Editor], and [Team Working].

  • Committed

    • [Mosaic editor] Papyrus shall provide a mosaic editor. [280431] (target milestone: M6)
    • [General] Papyrus shall enable to display model elements within diagram with customized figures [325615] (target milestone: M6)
    • [Palette] Papyrus shall enable to use detached palette [325618] (target milestone: M5)
    • [Palette] Papyrus shall enable to define template of predefined tools [325609] (target milestone: M6)
    • [Usability] Papyrus shall enable comparing/merging models. [330183] (target milestone: M7)

  • Proposed

    • [Profile property view] adapt the code of org.eclipse.papyrus.properties.tabbed.profile to the property view framework [315112] (target milestone: Juno)

Documentation

This theme addresses the need for documentation of the MDT Papyrus implementation and APIs. It concerns more precisely all features related to following concerns: [Documentation - User], and [Documentation - Developer].

  • Committed

    • [Documentation] The User Documentation should be improved [370820] (target milestone: M7)

Miscellaneous

This theme addresses all tasks that may not be included in one of the previous theme.

  • Proposed

    • [Abstract User Interface Editor] Papyrus shall provide an editor of Abstract User Interface. [324953] (target milestone: Juno)

Eclipse 4.2

this theme adresses the support and compatibility with platform 4.X and 3.X

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Appendix Legal Notices

  • Java is a trademark or a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • UML, SysML and OMG are trademarks 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.

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