Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] [technology-pmc] MPC requesting a Pho

[Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why do you prefer a "2018-07" release over "Photon.0a"?

On 03.07.2018 19:23, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> +1 for a rebase (2018-07 release )
> 
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Wayne Beaton
> <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     By way of process... I believe that we need the Planning Council
>     members to vote their approval and have the Planning Council Chair
>     make a call based on that vote. Once the call is made, we need to
>     ask Fred to do the work.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Nick Boldt <nboldt@xxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:nboldt@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>         -0.75: it's 2018 and people still using Windows and still
>         putting spaces in paths need to take a hard look at their life
>         choices. :)
> 
>         -0.25: Workaround exists - don't put spaces in paths on Windows.
> 
>         +1: Making Eclipse adoption / OOTB experience easier is always a
>         noble goal.
> 
>         +1: getting more efficient at respins gets us closer to
>         continuous deployment / continuous productization.  
> 
>         Net score: +1
> 
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>         On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 3:19 PM Gunnar Wagenknecht,
>         <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>             +1
> 
>             -- 
>             Gunnar Wagenknecht
>             gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>             http://guw.io/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>             > On Jun 30, 2018, at 04:48, Wayne Beaton
>             <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>             <mailto:wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>             >
>             > +1
>             >
>             > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 18:46 Carsten Reckord,
>             <reckord@xxxxxxxx <mailto:reckord@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>             > Dear Technology PMC,
>             >
>             > The Marketplace Client project is facing an issue with its
>             Photon release due to bug 536385 [1], and would like to ask
>             for a respin of the Simultaneous Release repository to
>             provide a fix.
>             >
>             > Due to this bug, the Marketplace Client fails to open for
>             users that have their Eclipse Photon installed into a path
>             that contains spaces - or more accurately, whose
>             configuration area path contains spaces.
>             >
>             > This includes users who
>             > - rename their Eclipse directory to something like
>             "Eclipse Photon"
>             > - install Eclipse under a path that has spaces, e.g.
>             "/Users/john/My Projects/eclipse"
>             > - use the "-configuration" option to set the config area
>             to something with spaces in it
>             >
>             > It does not include installations to read-only locations
>             with spaces, e.g. "C:\Program Files\eclipse", because in
>             that case, Eclipse will use a writeable overlay directory in
>             $HOME/.eclipse; so unless $HOME also contains spaces, this
>             is safe. Overall, it's hard to estimate the percentage of
>             our users affected by this, but there is some traffic on the
>             bug and on several duplicates.
>             >
>             > I've already published an MPC update with a fix to our
>             release update site at
>             http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/photon
>             <http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/photon> and users confirmed
>             that it fixed the issue.
>             >
>             >
>             > I'm asking for this respin, because this is obviously a
>             very bad user experience for those affected, and MPC is an
>             essential part of Eclipse's plug-in ecosystem. And secondly,
>             with the way the packages are built, I can't push out an MPC
>             update that would get picked up by "Check for updates", so
>             users don't have any easy recourse to get the fix and I
>             can't think of a "milder" solution to roll out this fix
>             effectively.
>             >
>             > Some technical details about the bug and the fix:
>             >
>             > The bug is caused by translating the configuration area
>             URL to a URI without guarding against unescaped characters.
>             It was introduced by the fix for bug 536414 [2], which was
>             detected in RC2 and fixed for RC3. The fix for the
>             respin-bug 536385 solves the encoding problem and also
>             guards the whole non-essential block against any exceptions.
>             The complete changes between the Photon release and the
>             update can be seen in [3], the fix itself is in [4].
>             >
>             > I would appreciate if you would approve this respin
>             request and bring it before the Planning Council.
>             >
>             > Best regards,
>             > Carsten Reckord
>             >
>             > ---
>             > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536385
>             <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536385>
>             > [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536414
>             <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536414>
>             > [3]
>             http://git.eclipse.org/c/mpc/org.eclipse.epp.mpc.git/diff/?id=R_1_7_1&id2=R_1_7_0
>             <http://git.eclipse.org/c/mpc/org.eclipse.epp.mpc.git/diff/?id=R_1_7_1&id2=R_1_7_0>
>             > [4]
>             http://git.eclipse.org/c/mpc/org.eclipse.epp.mpc.git/diff/org.eclipse.epp.mpc.ui/src/org/eclipse/epp/internal/mpc/ui/catalog/MarketplaceInfo.java?id=R_1_7_1&id2=R_1_7_0&context=3&ignorews=1&dt=0
>             <http://git.eclipse.org/c/mpc/org.eclipse.epp.mpc.git/diff/org.eclipse.epp.mpc.ui/src/org/eclipse/epp/internal/mpc/ui/catalog/MarketplaceInfo.java?id=R_1_7_1&id2=R_1_7_0&context=3&ignorews=1&dt=0>
>             >
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