1. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 1 Review for Eclipse (R4E) 0.11 Release Review Planned Review Date: July 12th, 2012 (Proposed) Communication Channel: mylyn-reviews-dev@eclipse.org

2. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 2 Introduction  R4E is an eclipse sub-sub-project under Mylyn Reviews  R4E is a review tool fully integrated with Eclipse that can preserve comments at specific line ranges for Java, C/C++ or XML files It will also allow the user to register comments at specific element locations in EMF based models.  R4E Integrates with Mylyn Versions to allow the review of commits from multiple version control systems, e.g. Git, SVN, using Mylyn versions connectors. It will preserve the commit information to allow multiple reviewers to work in parallel, to quickly select the committed files and navigate through the associated differences.  Three types of reviews are available to better adapt to the ways of working in the team: Basic, Informal and Formal (based on IEEE 1028- 2008 Standard for Software Reviews)IEEE 1028- 2008

3. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 3 Overview  The initial contribution of R4E to the Mylyn Reviews project was made on October 2010  R4E was moved to its own sub-sub project under Mylyn Reviews as of February 2012  The first release of R4E 0.10.0 was performed on May 25 th, 2012  Users are able to install the released versions and nightly builds from the R4E download area. (download page)(download page)  R4E is now in the process to perform its second release i.e. 0.11

4. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Review for Eclipse 0.11 4 Deliverables:  Review For Eclipse (R4E)  Notifications and connector for SMTP with Vcalendar  Configurable LDAP interface  Review Metrics reports via BIRT (Optional) Project Plan: (link)(link)  http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.reviews.r4e New Features  Cloning of Anomalies from Editor selections  Copying anomalies and comments via drag and drop  Single representation of anomalies for the same file version included in different review items  Support importing of postponed Global anomalies  Additional Anomaly Ranking option added

5. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 5 Non-code aspects(1)  Localization/externalization  R4E is not yet available for translation, this task shall be completed before exiting incubation.  The following task will keep track of the progress 379065: Implement Localization/Externalization (link) https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=379065(link)  User documentation  Eclipse help content is being generated using Mylyn WikiText and is maintained in sync with the Wiki page.  The R4E web site includes references to User’s guide, release plan, presentations and Videos. It’s available at: http://www.eclipse.org/r4e (link)(link)  Contribution to R4E relies on the guidelines available from the parent project i.e. Mylyn

6. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 6 Non-code aspects(2)  Release Engineering  The build system is based on Maven Tycho.  Continuous Integration  Tests are executed on a regular schedule on the Eclipse.org Hudson instance (see Hudson project)(see Hudson project)  Junit functional and Unit level tests are included in the test suite  Test results and build artifacts are available to anyone.  Commits to Gerrit are configured with the Gerrit trigger in order to perform validation builds and verify commits before they are pushed to the master branch

7. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 7 APIs  At this point all packages are flagged as internal in the plug-in manifest for all bundles.  API tooling will be used to verify that binary backwards compatibility is maintained and no API regressions are introduced.

8. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 8 End-of-Life Active Streams:  At the moment there is a single stream for Review for Eclipse (R4E) and supports Eclipse 4.2, 3.8 and 3.7 a new tag will be created for 0.11 which will allow the creation of a maintenance branch if needed. End-of-Live Streams:  N/A

9. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 9 Bugzilla Review for Eclipse (R4E) as of June 29 th, 2012  Bugs resolved: 12  Bugs Opened total: 192  Enhancement Bugs: 28

10. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 10 Standards  Review for Eclipse requires J2SE 1.5  Java 1.6 or later is recommended

11. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 11 UI Usability‏  Accessibility  The following task has been opened to track the progress to follow the accessibility guidelines  379120: Follow Accessibility guidelines https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=379120 (link)(link) http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Accessibility/index.html (link) (link)  Follow the User Interface Guidelines  R4E has had a couple of UI reviews with the Mylyn team, the finding and progress is documented on Bugs 345642, 347365, the remaining issues are tracked on the wrapper Bug 372434345642347365 372434  The effort is not completed at this point but the target is to follow the Eclipse User interface guidelines.  http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/User_Interface_Guidelines

12. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 12 Schedule ReleaseDatePlatform ReleaseNotes Review for Eclipse 0.11July 13, 2012Eclipse 3.7.2, 3.8 and 4.2 Review for Eclipse 0.10May 16, 2012 Eclipse 3.6.2, 3.7.2, 3.8 and 4.2  Project plan (link) :(link) http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.reviews.r4e

13. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 13 Communities  Users  Review for Eclipse 0.11 release is a good step towards building a user base  The priority of implementation for new features and maintenance issues is strongly based on user feedback  Developers  Communication channel via mylyn-reviews-dev@eclipse.org and bug reports  Using the Mylyn Contributor documentation which is available in Eclipsepedia

14. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 14 IP Log  Contributions are tracked in Git commits through setting the commit author accordingly or flagged as +iplog as they are applied.  IP log:  Mylyn Reviews (link): http://eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=mylyn.reviews.r4e(link)

15. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 15 IP Issues  No pending issues, the IP log is now approved for this review

16. Review for Eclipse Release Review | © 2012 by Review for Eclipse Committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 16 Release review version  These slides are based on the following version of the Release review document  Version 006 – July 6th, 2012