informations/plan_3.0.xml

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<plan plan-format="1.0" xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/project/plan"
	xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="ATL">
	<release projectid="modeling.m2m.atl" version="3.0" />
	<introduction>
		<html:div>This document lays out the feature and API set for the
			3.0 release of the ATL project, of the Eclipse M2M Project.
		</html:div>
	</introduction>
	<release_deliverables>
		<html:p>
			The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most
			Eclipse projects, namely:
			<html:ul>
				<html:li>ATL source code release, available as versions tagged
					"R3_0" in the project's CVS repository.</html:li>
				<html:li>M2M ATL SDK (includes runtime and tooling components,
					with sources and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
				</html:li>
				<html:li>M2M ATL runtime binary distribution (downloadable and
					update site).</html:li>
				<html:li>M2M ATL examples (downloadable and update site).
				</html:li>
				<html:li>M2T ATL tests (downloadable and update site).</html:li>
			</html:ul>
		</html:p>
	</release_deliverables>
	<release_milestones>
		<preamble>
			<html:p>Release milestones occur at roughly 6 week intervals
				and follow the Platform release milestone by the Galileo-established
				+2 delta interval.
				ATL will synchronize its release milestones with
				the
				Galileo release schedule until the M4 date.
			</html:p>
		</preamble>
		<milestone date="12/29/2008" milestone="M4"></milestone>
		<milestone date="02/06/2009" milestone="M5"></milestone>
		<milestone date="03/18/2009" milestone="M6">
			<html:p>API freeze</html:p>
		</milestone>
		<milestone date="05/05/2009" milestone="M7"></milestone>
		<milestone date="05/19/2009" milestone="RC1"></milestone>
		<milestone date="05/26/2009" milestone="RC2"></milestone>
		<milestone date="06/02/2009" milestone="RC3"></milestone>
		<milestone date="06/09/2009" milestone="RC4"></milestone>
		<milestone date="06/16/2009" milestone="RC5"></milestone>
		<milestone date="06/28/2009" milestone="3.0"></milestone>
		<postamble>
			<html:div>
				ATL produce maintenance releases to align with the Ganymede
				Service
				Releases
				which includes the Eclipse Platform's 3.4.1
				and 3.4.2
				releases. Maintenance releases will only be published if they
				contain new fixes.
			</html:div>
		</postamble>
	</release_milestones>
	<target_environments>
		<html:div>
			In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets
			reasonably
			current versions of the underlying operating environments.
			The ATL
			project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which
			are
			mostly "pure" Java. The 3.5 release of the Eclipse Platform
			Project
			is written and compiled against version 1.4 of the Java
			Platform
			APIs, and targeted to run on version 1.4 of the Java Runtime
			Environment, Standard Edition. ATL will target the same Java version
			as the platform.
		</html:div>
		<internationalization>
			<html:div>
				The Eclipse Platform is designed as the basis for
				internationalized
				products. The user interface elements provided by
				the Eclipse SDK
				components, including dialogs and error messages, are
				externalized.
				The English strings are provided as the default
				resource bundles. As
				a result, the ATL project will provide English
				strings in its
				default bundles and be localized to a subset of those
				locales
				offered by the Platform. This plan will be updated to
				indicate which
				locales will be provided and the time frame for
				availability.
			</html:div>
		</internationalization>
	</target_environments>
	<compatibility_with_previous_releases>
		<html:div>We plan to change the API in the ATL 3.0 release but the
			ATL language compatibility will be preserved.</html:div>
	</compatibility_with_previous_releases>
	<themes_and_priorities>
		<theme name="ATL 3.0 new features">
			<description>
				<html:div>
					Here is a list of the features we plan to integrate into the ATL
					3.0 release.
					<html:ul>
						<html:li>Transformation launch API refactoring</html:li>
						<html:li>Transformation launch UI improvement</html:li>
						<html:li>New In-place model transformation mode</html:li>
						<html:li>ATL transformation profiler integration</html:li>
						<html:li>Documentation and example refactoring</html:li>
						<html:li>Execution errors traceability improvement</html:li>
						<html:li>ATL UI improvement</html:li>
						<html:li>ATL debugger improvement</html:li>
						<html:li>Transformation plugins export feature</html:li>
						<html:li>Advanced UML profiles management</html:li>
					</html:ul>
				</html:div>
			</description>
		</theme>
	</themes_and_priorities>
	<appendix name="Project Refactoring">
		<html:div>The ATL 3.0 release consists on a refactoring of the
			current 2.0 version, in order to integrate new features</html:div>
	</appendix>
	<appendix name="Legal Notices">
		<html:div>
			<ul>
				<li>
					Java is a trademark or a registered trademark of Sun
					Microsystems, Inc.
            </li>
				<li>
					All other products or company names are mentioned for
					identification
					purposes only,
					and may be trademarks or service marks
					of their respective owners.
            </li>
			</ul>
		</html:div>
	</appendix>
</plan>