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Bug 577278 - Readme file for 4.22
Summary: Readme file for 4.22
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Doc (show other bugs)
Version: 4.22   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.22 RC2   Edit
Assignee: Sarika Sinha CLA
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Blocks: 577279
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Reported: 2021-11-16 02:27 EST by Sarika Sinha CLA
Modified: 2021-12-06 05:25 EST (History)
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Description Sarika Sinha CLA 2021-11-16 02:27:57 EST 
Readme file needs to be added for 4.22.


For more details on the readme see Bug 493368.
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-11-17 05:36:40 EST 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/+/187815
Comment 2 Kalyan Prasad Tatavarthi CLA 2021-11-17 05:47:07 EST 
(In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #1)
> New Gerrit change created:
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/+/187815

The above gerrit contains the new migration guide read me to be included in the main read me.
Comment 4 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-11-17 06:50:04 EST 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/+/187819
Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-11-17 06:50:25 EST 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform.releng/+/187820
Comment 8 Thomas Wolf CLA 2021-11-18 03:00:16 EST 
That README appears to be severely outdated. It still has a section about "Running Eclipse with Java SE 9" and in the next paragraph states that the minimum requirement was Java 11. It also still mentions that some parts require only "J2ME Foundation 1.1, J2SE 1.4, Java 5, etc."

Is "The Oracle JVM may hang indefinitely during class loading if it runs out of permanent generation memory." still relevant? Not with Java 11 AFAIK.

Is the section on GCJ still relevant?

"It is imperative that 64-bit builds are downloaded and used if a 64-bit Java runtime environment has been installed." -- AFAIK we don't distribute any 32bit builds anymore?

Mentions of specific problems with the CVS team provider.

And so on...
Comment 9 Thomas Wolf CLA 2021-11-18 03:06:52 EST 
"Internet Explorer in Offline Mode"...

And the link to the project plan appendix is wrong; there is no "appendix" on that page.[1]

Looks like this README is in desperate need of a complete overhaul.

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_22.xml#appendix
Comment 10 Thomas Wolf CLA 2021-11-18 03:08:37 EST 
And the copyright statement at the bottom of the page is wrong; upper end of range must be 2021.
Comment 11 Sarika Sinha CLA 2021-11-24 02:44:37 EST 
thanks Thomas for detailed review.

I have cleaned up the ReadMe a bit.
"Internet Explorer in Offline Mode"... Still needs to be there it seems.

Suggestions welcome.