PMC Meeting minutes

Meeting Minutes

Performance issue with Equinox startup in currently in analysis https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox/issues/93
I-Build is now using Java 17, platform is still requiring Java 11
Discussion about platform move to Java 17, currently it is not planned to require Java 17 in the platform
- Should be based on features in the Java language
- M2e already requires Java 17 and Tycho plans to move to Java 17

Publish meeting minutes
- Publish today's minutes to PMC mailing list for openness.
- Look into finding a "permanent" place to post minutes starting with some of the coming meetings.
- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/.github/wiki looks like the best place so far.
- Move old minutes too?
De-Orbitization of Platform
- Effort started after last release issues with custom mapping
- Do as much as possible for this release
- Upstream improvements - BouncyCastle, Lucene, etc. will have to happen before more switches can happen
- Some libraries (e.g. JUnit 4.x) will stay from Orbit as long as they are shipped as Maven Central doesn't have them as OSGi bundles
- Cross-project notification email need (Jay)
- Already sent by Mickael, projects are building using Maven for years and projects have to move to using Maven libraries directly so in a way it's simplification of the process (Alex)
- If there is unclear case/need for more explanation we need exact questions to act on
Tycho OSGi Connect usage
- FYI very promising effort to simplify our main build tool (https://github.com/eclipse/tycho/pull/1152)
- Connect is very specific API for very tight problem zone so hopefully it works for the Tycho use case (Tom)