Eclipse PHP Development Tools 3.4 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.

Release

3.4

Description

The PHP IDE project delivers a PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses the development components necessary to develop PHP-based Web Applications and facilitates extensibility. It leverages the existing Web Tools Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities.

Release 3.4 is delivered for the Eclipse Luna SR2 release.

Architectural Issues

Test suites was migrated from JUnit3 to JUnit4.

Security Issues

There are no security issues.

Non-Code Aspects

Our documentation was transformed from html to markdown and moved back to org.eclipse.php.help plugin.

Usability Details

PHP related elements on project settings page are grouped now.

PHP syntax errors are no longer reported as "DLTK Error". We are using own problem marker.

End of Life

Nothing is end of lifed in this release.

Standards

None

Communities

During this release cycle, two of our active contributors have joined the team as committers.

Zend Technologies is actively involved in PDT development via it's committers and non-committers who contribute significant features.

There's stable group of passionate PDT contributors organized in PDT Extenders Group. 

We have 6 active committers with vary amounts of activity as all of them are only part time working on PDT directly.