Presented @ Ustron in 2012

1. Eclipse Way
Tomasz Zarna
Eclipse Platform commiter @ IBM

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Agenda
•Eclipse Way
•Working with Community
•Code coverage and static code analysis
•Code review with Gerrit
•Easy multi-tasking with Mylyn

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How We Got Here
•Java strategic technology for IBM
•Need to compete with MS VS and other Java IDEs
•Created in 1998 by IBM/OTI teams responsible for VisualAge
•In 2001 opened to open source
•In 2004 Eclipse Foundation was created
•Eclipse already well regarded tooling platform
•In mid 2004 Eclipse 3.0 ships, now based on OSGi
•Eclipse becomes more and more an RCP platform
•Thousands of Eclipse based products on the market, from ST
to fully loaded IDEs

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Krakow Software Lab

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Application Lifecycle
Req
Dev Test Ops

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Application Lifecycle
Req
Dev Test Ops

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Planning
•Community input
•Discuss propositions on bug reports
•Committed, proposed items
•We drop items to maintain schedule

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Continuous Integration
•Releases - e.g. R3.7
•Stable - e.g. 3.8M5
•Integration Builds - e.g. I20120511-1540
•Nightly Builds - e.g. N20120626-1232
Always beta:
We work on nightly builds so we try to keep them running

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Milestones
•There are 7 milestones, each takes 6 weeks
•Shipping is hard, that’s why we do it 7 times a release
•Customers can rebase more frequently
•Plan, develop, test, release, retrospective
•We play all the roles
•New and Noteworthy
•Feed the community
•Make people move to milestone builds
•Fewer completed than more in progress

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The Covergence Process
•M6 - API freeze
•M7 - feature freeze
•RC1 - another commiter, PMC for API changes
•RC2 - two commiters
•RC3 - two commiters, compoment lead
•RC4 - two compoment leads, any lead can veto
Commiting Into RCs:
Release Candidates time is when you never want to have a
buildbrake

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Community
•Inital investment
•Community grows and becomes self supporting, we don’t
have to grow
•Early feedback
•Open technical discussions, even more important than
open bugs
•Transparency, good for distributed teams
•The village effect

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Google Summer of Code
•The Eclipse Foundation is one of 180 organisations
•20 slots out of 1200+ assigned to EF
•Topics: RCP, IDE, Java, C/C++, JGit, ECF, javascript, Orion
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•Internships in KSL

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EclEmma
• http://www.eclemma.org
• EMMA, instrumentation
• EPL
• Eclipse 3.1 and Java 1.4
• Update site: http://update.eclemma.org

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FindBugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net
• Apache Commons BCEL + bug patterns
• LGPL
• Eclipse 3.3 and Java 1.5
• Update site: http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse

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PMD
• http://pmd.sourceforge.net
• AST + rule sets
• BSD-style
• Update site: http://pmd.sf.net/eclipse

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Code review with Gerrit
Gerrit

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Code review with Gerrit
Gerrit Hudson
pull
+1

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Code review with Gerrit
Gerrit Hudson
pull
+1
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Code review with Gerrit
Gerrit Hudson
pull
+1
Git
+2push
pull
pull

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Easy multi-tasking with Mylyn
• http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/
• Task focused-interface, task management tool
• EPL
• Eclipse 3.6 and Java 1.5
• Update site:
http://download.eclipse.org/mylyn/snapshots/weekly

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Repository connectors
• Assembla Tickets
• Atlassian JIRA , Bamboo, Crucible, FishEye
• Bugzilla
• CodeBeamer Eclipse Studio
• CollabNet Issue Tracker, formerly IssueZilla
• CollabNet TeamForge
• CollabNet Project Tracker
• EmForge
• EPlanner
• FogBugz
• GitHub Connector
• Google Calendar
• Google Code
• Google Gmail
• HP Quality Center
• IBM Rational ClearQuest
• Industrial Connector
• Mantis
• Origo
• QcMylyn
• Microsoft Outlook & Exchange
• ProjectKoach
• Rally
• Redmine
• Request Tracker (RT)
• Remember The Milk
• ScrumWorks Basic
• ScrumWorks Pro
• Serena Business Mashups 2009
• Google SpreadSheet Template
• TD/OMS
• ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle
• Trac
• Track+
• Unfuddle
• Web Templates
• XPlanner

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Thank you!

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Legal Notice
 IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of IBM Corporation, in the United States, other
countries or both.
 Java and all Java-based marks, among others, are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems in
the United States, other countries or both.
 Eclipse and the Eclipse logo are trademarks of Eclipse
Foundation, Inc.
 Other company, product and service names may be
trademarks or service marks of others.
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Keeping It Big
How can you build something that can last 10 years and be:
 Industry leading
 Extendable
 Constantly evolving
Well, you need to have those:
 Modularity
 Scalability
 Stable APIs

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Stable API
Stable APIs are critical to sustain growth. Clients can add
features instead of updating to new API. So, it has to be:
 Consistent and wise
 Any decision made today will impact where you can go tommorow
API compatibility is a huge commitment so we take a
defensive approach:
 Don’t add until there is at least one client
 Exhibit less rather then more
 Expose more if needed

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JDT
• An incremental Java compiler, implemented as an Eclipse
builder
• Preferences: Java > Compiler > Error/Warnings
 Code style
 Potential programming problems
 Name shadowing and conflicts
 Deprecated and restricted API
 Unnecessary code
 Generic types
 Annotations

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API Tooling
•Invalid API usage
•Execution environments