D23 General Platform Maintenance

Overview

The purpose of the platform corrective and evolutive maintenance is to address bugs and feature requests.

See the release notes and the SourceForge trackers for details about the previous and upcoming releases of the Rodin platform.

Motivations

The main evolutions of the Rodin platform are driven by the description of work for the Rodin project and the requirements expressed by industrial WP1 to WP5 partners or by consultants during the lifecycle of the project.

Beyond that, any user registered on SourceForge may record any encountered bug on the Rodin platform or request a new feature, using the dedicated trackers. Depending on the category, the bug / feature is assigned to the WP9 partner who is in charge of its treatment:

Category	Partner
AnimB	Christophe METAYER
B2LaTeX	University of Southampton
Decomposition	Systerel
Event-B core	Systerel
Event-B interface	Systerel
Event-B POG	Systerel
Event-B provers	Systerel
Event-B static checker	Systerel
PRO-B	Dusseldorf
Renaming	University of Southampton
Requirements	Dusseldorf
Rodin platform	Systerel
Text editor	Dusseldorf
U2B	Southampton

Choices / Decisions

The WP9 partners have agreed on a release policy. In particular, a new version of the Rodin platform is released every 3 months, a wiki page is dedicated to each release (eg. http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Rodin_Platform_1.2_Release_Notes), and the code is frozen during the 2 weeks preceding each release.

The main advantages, for both developers and end-users, are summarized below:

• Information. The wiki page dedicated to each release provides instant information on the new features and improvements, which may be discussed if necessary.
• Validation. The period of code freeze is more especially devoted to bug fixes, and the frequency of the stable releases is ensured.
• Integration. A synchronization between the optional plug-ins and other plug-ins is now possible.

Available Documentation

The following pages give useful information about the Rodin platform releases:

• Release notes.

See http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Rodin_Platform_Releases.

More details are provided in the notes distributed with each release (eg. http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=693928).

• Bugs.

See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=108850&atid=651669.

• Feature requests.

See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=108850&atid=651672.

Planning

The Rodin Platform Releases wiki page lists in particular the upcoming releases and give the scheduled release dates.