Yesterday I uploaded a new update site, made by Jeff Pound, for the Eclipse plugins we ship in Fedora. We now finally have both the ChangeLog and Bugzilla plugins in the same update site, which should be much more convenient. The main problem that we’re seeing with this is that we currently do not support the 3.2 builds, only 3.1.x, this is because the plugin depends on a patched up org.eclipse.compare plugin. The patched version exposes API that is internal in the official Eclipse.org version, and this allows us to apply patches from bug reports to projects in the workspace. Unfortunately these patches by Jeff were largely ignored by the core Eclipse folk, and are not committed to the 3.2 branch. On top of that the code that the patch applies to is still changing, since it’s internal API that the patch exposes and is not covered by the API freeze. So for now we are only supporting Eclipse 3.1 in the Bugzilla plugin. In the near future we may branch it so that we have a cut down version without the patch functionality for 3.2 (which is not that huge of a deal anyway). But we still need the internal API to stop changing for this. I guess we’ll wait and see.
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