Prepare requirenments for SonarQube udpate center release

[stefanrinderle]

Prepare requirenments for SonarQube udpate center release

[stefanrinderle]

Request for feedback started: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sonarqube/EWfPJDGKFd4
Feedback period till Tuesday 28/06.

[stefanrinderle]

Update center release done. Yeah.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!topic/sonarqube/T_8WqagrhCc

[stefanrinderle]

Lets go through this step by step:

• (1) Plugin is open source

1a. Source is available here: https://github.com/stefanrinderle/softvis3d
1b. License: GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3. FLOSS listed license
1c. Issue tracking system: https://github.com/stefanrinderle/softvis3d/issues
1d. Documentation can be found in the README files of the project and here: http://softvis3d.com
1e. Binaries are available here: https://github.com/stefanrinderle/softvis3d/releases

Requirenments under (1.) are met after releasing a 0.5.x version for the udpate center.

• (2) Releases follow open source conventions

We will prepare a release candidate and announce a feedback period prior release and request to update center including a "feedback period closed" notice afterwards. This is an open todo and will be documented here.

The released are avaiable through github here: https://github.com/stefanrinderle/softvis3d/releases
All released contain the source code, release notes and the plugin jar.

Requirenments under (2) are met after closing this issue.

• (3) The key of your plugin is: sonar-softvis3d-plugin-[VERSION].jar
  This is short and unique, lowercase (no camelcase) and composed only of [a-z0-9]

Requirenments under (3.) are already met.

• (4) Description will be part of the email within for the release candidate feedback.

Requirenments under (4.) are met after closing this issue.

• (5) I already asked Fabrice Bellingard in May 2015 about this. His answer was that the corresponding commercial plugin "3D City Model plugin is not ours, it is developed and sold by Excentia."

What i understand from that is that the requirenments under (5.) are already met.

• (6) Nemo url: https://sonarqube.com/overview?id=de.rinderle.softvis3d%3Asoftvis3d
  Quality gate is currently green.

Requirenments under (6.) are met after closing this issue.

• (7) Runs on JRE >= 7 to support SQ versions 5.5 and 5.6

Requirenments under (7.) are met.

• (8) Software visualization is one part of management of the technical debt and the quality of the code.

Requirenments under (8.) are met.

[stefanrinderle]

After we finished all user stories within the milestone "Request plugin for the SQ update center" except this one, we have to do the following to meet all requirenment:

• A Release Candidate and feedback period are announced prior to each release.
  

• A "feedback period closed" notice is sent just before the release.
  

• Prepare release notes that reflect all significant changes in the version and provide the plugin jar
  

This also includes to write a description for the plugin.
Important: Quality gate has to be green on release.

[Ungolianth]

I'm not sure if the changelogs will be required since the plugin has never been in the Upgrade Center, therefore they are somewhat redundant...

Nonetheless here are the relevant changes i came up with regarding v0.4 -> v0.5:

• [Feature] New visualization algorithm replaces Graphiz dependency
• [Feature] New layout "EvoStreet" is available (experimental)
• [Feature] UI overhaul
• [Bugfix] Element-Selection is more reliable in all browsers
• [Change] The number of available color metrics has been selectively reduced
• [Change] House measurements use a logarithmic scale

This concludes only the changes i was involved in ;-)

[stefanrinderle]

Feedback period closed. The missing steps for an update center requests are now done:

• A Release Candidate and feedback period are announced prior to each release.
• A "feedback period closed" notice is sent just before the release.
• Prepare release notes that reflect all significant changes in the version and provide the plugin jar

Update center release requested:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!topic/sonarqube/T_8WqagrhCc

[ganncamp]

FYI, SQ 5.6 now requires Java 8. The plugin seems to run fine, but your comment above re "JRE >= 7" gave me pause

[stefanrinderle]

Added the license information to the root pom, the root README file and the homepage (http://softvis3d.com/#/download) as requested via the google groups thread.

The plugin version 0.5.x are intended to work with SQ version 5.5 and 5.6. As it requires Java 7 but also works in a Java 8 environment i do not see an issue here. If it's required to change the release version to SQ 5.6 and higher only and should only work with Java 8, we could change it. But currently i do not get the advantage of that.

[ganncamp]

Re license, thx. Re Java, okay.