[cross-project-issues-dev] Ready for Mars plus Luna maintenance? It's ti

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope most of you have been enjoying your
summer (or, winter in Southern Hemisphere) or perhaps some of you are just
beginning to get some time off? 

But in either case, my rest is over!
It's time we begin having aggregation builds for Mars, plus aggregation
builds for Luna maintenance. 

The Luna_maintenance schedule has been
posted for some time, see 
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Luna/Simultaneous_Release_Plan#SR1

While we do not have a Planning-Council-approved-plan
for Mars, yet, I have created a proposed plan, and suspect at least the
first 2 or 4 milestones will be as stated in that plan ... though some
tweaks to later dates will take place as the Planning Council begins to
meet again in August. That proposed plan is at 
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Mars/Simultaneous_Release_Plan#Schedule
and is based on the exact same pattern
as has been used in past years. 

This means that Mars M1 begins next
week (+0 being 8/8) and 2 weeks later (8/22) be completely finished. And
that does overlap with Luna SR1 RC1! 

This means we need to "split streams"
soon and begin aggregation builds for both streams. I have opened bug
440701 to track the steps I have
to go through to get these duals builds running again and provide a central
place for any of participating in the release to add questions or reminders
of what needs to be done. Tentatively, I plan to create the new branch,
Luna_maintenance, on Friday, 8/1. So you all have a few days to get things
in order, if you need to, so you can make a change once, initially, and
start both builds with same input. But after that, even if you are using
the same input for both streams you will have to make updates in both streams.


Other reminders: 

A. We will start to use Luna + b3 aggregator
for Luna (thanks goes to Thomas
Hallgren). As far as I can tell,
the change should be completely transparent to users, and technically you
could probably continue to use "Kepler based" version, if you
preferred. 

B. Remember that projects just explicitly
declare your intent to participate in Mars (See how
to declare your intent on wiki).
This explicit declaration will allow us to "leave everyone enabled"
for Mars, (if you were in Luna) for the first 2 or 3 milestones ... and
if I recall correctly, it's about M3 that projects will be removed if you
haven't formally declared yet.). Brand new projects have until M4. 

C: For a refresher on the process or
FAQs, I have started a "Mars
category" on the wiki which
should have all the basic information there, but if you have questions
you can not easily find the answer to, feel free to ask. 

I believe there will be changes to the
process and procedures, over the next few months, but we'll be starting
off in the usual last-minute, haphazard way that we always have. 

Thanks for your help, responsiveness,
and your participation!