Eclipse Papyrus 6.0.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
End Date of the Review Period

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Project
Release

6.0.0

Description

Papyrus 6.0:

-we will reduce the dead code in the generated diagram code for GMF by introducing abstract classes.

-we have worked on tools to validate all customization models

- we have added a library to be able to connect a Xtext editor as a diagram editor or a table editor.

- we have added a set of fixes

Note that all the relatives: Sysml 1.6, Moka, designer... have also been reworked to be compatible with papyrus 6.0.

Architectural Issues

All diagrams based on GMF have bee regenerated by using abstract classes to avoid dead code.

There are no problems for diagram customizations even if they intherit mehods of generated code. 

Non-Code Aspects

user documentation has been added byt need to be restructured.

Conforms To UI/UX Guidelines
Not verified
Usability Details

there is no impact for the user. 

The experience of a customizer is better due to validation of customization plugins

End of Life

there is no removal.

Standards

Papyrus 5.0 continues to support modeling with the following standards as part of the simultaneous release or as incubation additional component (*): 

Communities

this majour realease was annonced on the forum (https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1109213/) and mailing list.

This release is part of Eclipse IDE 2021-12