Congratulations everybody!
From: epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Per Kroll
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007
11:27 AM
To: epf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [epf-dev] Well Done - EPF
1.2 is out
Hi,
I
want to congratulate every body to yesterday's release of EPF 1.2, which you
can download on
http://www.eclipse.org/epf/downloads/tool/epf1.2.0_downloads.php
Thanks
you all for the hard work.
- EPF 1.2 contains 2
components: OpenUP 1.0 and EPF Composer 1.2.
- 29 committers and 13
contributors built the product.
- 631 bugs and enhancements
were done to EPF Composer, and 416 bugs and enhancements to OpenUP.
EPF Composer 1.2 - New Features and Key
Improvements
- Improved
Diagram Editor
- Diagram editor has been
completely reimplemented.
- Provides swimlanes, control
flow labels, free-form drawing, and font styles.
- Files can be saved in GIF,
JPG, or BMP format.
- Improved Rich
Text Editor
- Font family and size can be
changed.
- Content cut from Microsoft
Word can be pasted as plain text.
- Links and images can be added
in the HTML view.
- Improved HTML error markers
and correction features.
- Improved
Configuration Editor
- Processes can be fine-tuned
by adding or removing categorized elements.
- Improved configuration error
reporting for Method Configurations and Method Libraries.
- Current view is highlighted
in configuration editor.
- Configuration views can be
ordered.
- Improved
Process Editor
- Activities are displayed
with indented and outdented elements.
- All tasks at any level can
be suppressed.
- Activities can have
multiple descriptors.
- Additional
platform support
- Vista
- Internet Explorer 7
- Mozilla FireFox 2
- Subversion
- Eclipse 3.3
- Other
Improvements
- New plug-in naming
convention allows plug-ins to be displayed in hierarchical lists.
- Published sites on
application servers can implement server-based search.
- GUIDs are no longer
present in published filenames.
- A new variability type is
provided: Extends and Replaces.
- Elements in categories
can be ordered alphabetically, manually, or by type.
OpenUP 1.0 - Key Characteristics
- Scope:
OpenUP aims at being minimal and complete, focusing on only
fundamental content required for a development process that can be
used as-is for specific contexts. This means that we have on purpose
de-scoped many content areas, including environment, advanced
configuration management, GUI prototyping, database refactoring, and
model-driven development, among others. Those and many other content
areas may later be added as plug-ins extending OpenUP. While
de-scoping we have ensured that the resulting process is complete
enough to be applied by a team to build a software application.
- Field
testing: OpenUP captures the
vast experience of its authors on real projects and borrows from
many different processes, including IBM Rational Unified Process,
other variants of the Unified Process, DSDM, XP, Scrum, Eclipse Way,
Agile Model-Driven Development, and the experience of contributors
from a broad cross-section of environments. The content of OpenUP
1.0 has been written from scratch to provide a concise and well
integrated process that takes an integrated, team-based and
stakeholder focused approach that provides a fresh perspective on
software development. OpenUP is stable enough to be used as is by
project teams, and it will continue to evolve as teams adopt it and
provide feedback.
- Extensibility:
Customizations via extensibility (plug-ins) are encouraged to ease
maintenance when new versions of OpenUP are released. However, we
expect to change the structure of process elements in OpenUP for the
next release to address scalability. This could mean that some
restructuring of your plug-in may be required after OpenUP has been
refactored.
- Consistency:
OpenUP has been collectively written by many people from a dozen or
so organizations. However, we have firmly pursued consistency in
style of writing and depth of content through copy-editing,
published authoring guidelines and extensive reviews.
This is a major step forward for the EPF project. We
have something to be very proud over!
Looking
forward, we brainstormed yesterday about future potential enhancements, and it
is obvious that we have many potential exciting things to work on, including:
- Leverage Wiki
technology
- Release Scrum 1.0
- Release XP 1.0
- Refactoring and
broadening of OpenUP content
We invite you and your friends and colleagues to work
on these and many other exciting capabilities moving forward.
Again,
thank you all for the hard work, now let's go out and help organizations
harvest the benefits of what we have built!
Per
Kroll
Project Lead: Eclipse Process Framework
Rational Software, IBM Corp
(M) 408-219-2963
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