Features/F14EclipseHelios

= Fedora 14 Eclipse Helios Update =

Summary
Update Fedora's Eclipse stack to Helios releases.

Owner

 * Name: Alex Kurtakov,  Andrew Overholt
 * Email: akurtako at redhat, overholt at redhat

Current status

 * Targeted release: Fedora 14
 * Last updated: 2010-08-04
 * Percentage of completion: 100%

Detailed Description
Many Eclipse projects release annually in June. The 2010 version of this simultaneous release is known as "Helios" and is made up of 39 projects and 33 million lines of code. The foundation of these projects is the Eclipse project itself, producing the Eclipse SDK which contains the Eclipse Platform, the Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT), and the Eclipse Plugin Development Environment (PDE).

This Fedora feature encompasses the updating of the Eclipse packages in Fedora to be their Helios versions. Note that not all eclipse-* packages in Fedora are hosted at eclipse.org which coordinates the simultaneous release so this feature does not include them (notable examples include PyDev which is shipped in Fedora as eclipse-pydev).


 * Upstream Helios page

Benefit to Fedora
The latest and greatest versions of Eclipse packages will be available to Fedora users.

Scope
Update dependencies (see below), many eclipse-* packages, and test upgrade experience from existing Galileo (2009 simultaneous release name) versions. The packages (SRPM names) that will be updated include:

Done:
 * 1) eclipse DONE
 * 2) eclipse-jdt DONE
 * 3) eclipse-pde DONE
 * 4) eclipse-platform DONE
 * 5) eclipse-rcp DONE
 * 6) eclipse-swt DONE
 * 7) eclipse-gef DONE
 * 8) eclipse-rse DONE
 * 9) eclipse-egit DONE
 * 10) eclipse-jgit DONE
 * 11) eclipse-subclipse DONE
 * 12) eclipse-pydev DONE
 * 13) eclipse-cdt DONE
 * 14) eclipse-linuxprofilingframework DONE
 * 15) eclipse-mylyn DONE
 * 16) eclipse-valgrind DONE
 * 17) eclipse-testframework DONE
 * 18) eclipse-oprofile DONE
 * 19) eclipse-changelog DONE
 * 20) eclipse-callgraph DONE
 * 21) eclipse-dltk DONE
 * 22) eclipse-rpmstubby DONE
 * 23) eclipse-dtp DONE
 * 24) eclipse-shelled DONE
 * 25) eclipse-rpm-editor DONE
 * 26) eclipse-systemtapgui DONE
 * 27) eclipse-birt DONE
 * 28) eclipse-emf DONE
 * 29) eclipse-ptp DONE

How To Test

 * x86 or x86_64 hardware is preferred for testing as the OpenJDK JIT (just in time compiler) is present there
 * Installing the packages listed above in the "Scope" section should be installed
 * Eclipse should start from the GNOME menu under Programming or from the command line
 * The Eclipse Help system should display and allow clicking around the contents (Help menu -> Help Contents)
 * Help -> About should show 3.6 somewhere as the version
 * Functionality of plugins should be verified but this is plugin-specific
 * eclipse-* should upgrade cleanly from their Galileo versions

User Experience
Expected to remain largely the same.

Dependencies
Notable Eclipse SDK dependencies include:


 * 1) icu4j DONE
 * 2) sat4j DONE
 * 3) jetty (jetty requires a new version of maven to build) DONE

These dependencies are almost complete but updates are not yet in rawhide. There are few packages that depend on the Eclipse stack outside of eclipse-*.

Contingency Plan
Non-completion will result in the F13 versions from the Galileo release being used in F14.

Documentation
New and Noteworthies
 * Eclipse JDT debug
 * Upstream Eclipse SDK 3.6
 * Eclipse SWT
 * GEF
 * Eclipse RSE
 * EGit
 * JGit
 * Pydev (main page contains release notes)
 * CDT
 * Linux Tools
 * Subclipse changelog
 * Mylyn
 * BIRT
 * EMF

Other
 * Upstream Helios page
 * GEF 3.6.0 bug fixes
 * RCP tutorials

Release Notes

 * Eclipse SDK 3.6 New and noteworthy:
 * Upstream Helios page

Comments and Discussion

 * See Talk:Features/F14EclipseHelios