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GEF/HeliosReview

< GEF

This page provides the required docuware for the GEF 3.6.0 Release Review, as part of the upcoming Helios Simultaneous Release.

Overview

The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) allows developers to take an existing application model and quickly create a rich graphical editor.

The GEF Project provides the GEF, Draw2D and Zest sub-components.

Features

New in this release

Completed features as part of the Helios release can be found in the GEF project plan at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=tools.gef

Non-Code Aspects

APIs

APIs have not changed this release.

  • The project lead certifies that the requirements for Eclipse Quality APIs have been met for this release.
  • Metamodel definitions and corresponding implementations are considered APIs.
  • API Tooling has been employed.

Architecture

  • No change.

Tool Usability

  • Tools haven't changed.

End-of-Life

Nothing has been deprecated.

Bugzilla

Bugzilla snapshot for Helios as of May 28, 2010.

GEFHeliosReleaseBugzillaSnapshot.jpg

Standards

Not applicable.

UI Usability

Nothing has changed.

Schedule

GEF is a “+1” component in the simultaneous release.

M1	08/17/2009	
M2	09/28/2009	
M3	11/09/2009	
M4	12/14/2009	
M5	02/01/2010	
M6	03/15/2010	API freeze
M7	05/03/2010	Feature Freeze
RC1	05/17/2010	
RC2	05/24/2010	
RC3	05/31/2010	
RC4	06/07/2010	
RC5	06/14/2010	
Helios	06/23/2010

Communities

  • Interaction in Bugzilla
  • Activity on the GEF newsgroup
  • Collaboration with other projects at Eclipse
  • Attendance at EclipseCon 2010

Committer Changes

  • Alexander Nyssen is a new committer on the GEF project.
  • Fabian Steeg is a new committer on the GEF project.

IP Issues

The GEF component leadership verifies that:

  • the about files and use licenses are in place as per the Guidelines to Legal Documentation.
  • all contributions (code, documentation, images, etc) have been committed by individuals who are either Members of the Foundation, or have signed the appropriate Committer Agreement. In either case, these are individuals who have signed, and are abiding by, the Eclipse IP Policy.
  • all significant contributions have been reviewed by the Foundation's legal staff.
  • all non-Committer code contributions, including third-party libraries, have been documented in the release and reviewed by the Foundation's legal staff.
  • all Contribution Questionnaires have been completed.
  • the "provider" field of each plug-in is set to "Eclipse Modeling Project“.
  • the "copyright" field of each feature is set to the copyright owner (the Eclipse Foundation is rarely the copyright owner).
  • any third-party logos or trademarks included in the distribution (icons, help file logos, etc) have been licensed under the EPL.
  • any fonts or similar third-party images included in the distribution (e.g. in PDF or EPS files) have been licensed under the EPL.

The GEF Project IP log in located at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=tools.gef

Project Plan

The current project plan is available from http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=tools.gef

Draft development plan for next release is not yet available.

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