Re: [epp-dev] Showing all milestone/release candidate EPP packages on th

[Markus Knauer <mknauer23@xxxxxxxxx>]

I realise that there is sometimes the impression that it is EPP that is responsible for this download page, but I see / always saw EPP only as a provider of packages, and it was always important to me that I don't get the permission to publish anything from there.

In my opinion the "eclipse.org/downloads/" space is owned by the Eclipse Foundation, and they can pick and choose whatever they want. We, the Planning Council and EPP, can only recommend something, and completely fine with this new recommendation. Let's see if it works better than the old approach. In the end it is about getting feedback from the end users as early as possible.

Thanks,

Markus

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 20:36, Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

As discussed in today's Planning Council meeting, the council recommends
to show _all_ milestone/release candidate EPP packages on the download
page (e.g.
https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/2018-12/m1), even if
a package receives a -1 vote.

If a package receives a -1 vote, it will be (visually) marked on the
download page as "not approved" or similar (exact wording and design is
TBD). To make it easy for users to judge the stability of a marked
package, links to the bugs that caused the -1 vote will be shown.

Therefore it is _required_ for the package maintainers to _always_
provide links to the blocking bugs when they vote -1.

The webdev team will try to get everything in place for M2.

Please let us know, if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Fred

P.S.: If a package receives multiple -1 or no votes in consecutive
milestone or RC builds, we will consider removing it from the download page.


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