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Bug 329952

Summary: Release Notes reports "Error: could not connect to database!"
Product: [Tools] GEF Reporter: Alexander Nyßen <nyssen>
Component: Website / WikiAssignee: gef-inbox <gef-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: ahunter.eclipse, irbull
Version: 3.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 363394    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Alexander Nyßen CLA 2010-11-10 17:24:40 EST
The Release Notes page (http://www.eclipse.org/gef/news/relnotes.php?project=gef&version=HEAD) seems to be broken. It does not show any release notes but provides the error message "Error: could not connect to database!"
Comment 1 Alexander Nyßen CLA 2010-12-02 02:49:15 EST
Augmented relnotes.php with information about new releases:

$streams = array(
	"gef" => array(
		"3.7.x" => "HEAD",
		"3.6.x" => "R3_6_maintenance",
		"3.5.x" => "R3_5_maintenance",
		"3.4.x" => "R3_4_maintenance",
		"3.3.x" => "R33_maintenance",
		"3.2.x" => "R32_maintenance",
		"3.1.x" => "R31_maintenance",
		"3.0.x" => "R30_maintenance"
	),
);

However, the db connection problem is still an issue.
Comment 2 Alexander Nyßen CLA 2010-12-02 02:51:44 EST
The modeling projects seem to have the same problems, e.g. compare 

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/news/relnotes.php?project=emf&version=HEAD
Comment 3 Anthony Hunter CLA 2010-12-02 11:13:19 EST
The release notes were generated by the integration in the Common Modeling Build that GEF and some of the modeling projects use.

Nobody is maintaining the Common Modeling Build anymore, we were supposed to either move to Athena, Buckminster or something else.

The modeling projects are supposed to move to Buckminster and Ian said he would do this work for GEF.

With regards to the Release Notes being broken for GEF, the release notes were a list of Bugzillas resolved in that particular build. We currently have no idea what is fixed in a particular build and when you check a bugzilla and ask when build has the fix, there is no obvious answer.
Comment 4 Alexander Nyßen CLA 2010-12-05 16:11:18 EST
As this is no longer directly referenced on the GEF main page (but only from the downloads page), reducing severity.
Comment 5 Alexander Nyßen CLA 2012-01-02 15:14:57 EST
(In reply to comment #4)
> As this is no longer directly referenced on the GEF main page (but only from
> the downloads page), reducing severity.

As soon as the changes I applied to the build pages under bug #363394 are live, we can regard this as being resolved.
Comment 6 Alexander Nyßen CLA 2012-01-19 16:40:13 EST
As the old webpages have been replaced, as documented in bug #363394, this no longer holds.