Equinox p2 Meeting 20080204

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Agenda

• Where are we at wrt to our M5 goals?
  • Paths in bundles.txt
  • M5 N&N
  • Test plan

• Discussion topics
  • EclipseCon stick
  • File names: bundles.txt, artifacts.xml, content.xml
  • Update description explicit or not
  • File describing the location of the source, where do we put it
  • How do we generate categories from the MDGen
  • What do we do about bugs we are not addressing in 1.0?

Attendees

• John Arthorne
• DJ Houghton
• Simon Kaegi
• Jeff McAffer
• Susan McCourt
• James Miles
• Tim Mok
• Andrew Niefer
• Andrew Overholt
• Pascal Rapicault
• Dave Stevenson
• Mike Wilson
• Darin Wright

M5 status

Simon

• director and planner api done
• engine api done
• profile/profile delta done
• ran tests but having problems

Pascal

• source bundles released
• some alignment tbd with pde
• didn't set up the build to run everyday
• did grad review slides
• reviewed tim's code
• released some path changes
• still working on mac problem
• stlil has old shape
• will talk to mcq about shape
• important to have good "mac" shape for shared install scenerio

John

• installer was written
• problems building it
• build is missing the exe
• installer installs old-style sdk with bundles.txt (which means they can't use update manager)
• released bundles as being true
• reviewing patches from Tim W prob for post M5 (resolving fragments, multi-thread downloads)
• reviewing Tim M patches

DJ

• got busted by a framework admin problem
• don't use jar: urls
• will be able to make progress on compatibility bundle

Susan

• got lots of cleanup done
• auto-updates pop-up, reminders, etc

Dave

• translations
• update working with the source
• problems for update after installing
• minor progress on transalation support

Andrew N

• generation of product metadata from product file
• ran into problem with framework admin
• weird url things happening when trying to load a local artifact repository
• andrew to let scott know in case there is something in ecf that is related

Andrew O

• Shared install
• repo working
• spoofed profile working
• merging with all the changes in engine and profile
• will be working on composite repos next

PDE

• setting p2 properties for the builder (exporting) (get a repo when export)
• have more testing to do on it, not released yet

Discussion Topics

bundles.txt

• pascal made changes to bundles.txt
• pde populating the target platform is broken
• pascal to open bug about npe and work with darin/curtis

M5 new and noteworthy

• john to put it together

Test Plan

• manual tests
• need to add more
• update compatibility - dj
• reconciler - simon
• export and re-use of repo - andrew n
• need to make sure we have a repo to test against
• do that today to ensure it gets replicated in time

EclipseCon stick

• provide ganymede update site / bundle pool
• provide installers to install EPP packages
• people can point back to the stick as an update site to install things from
• it has to work for everyone
• need to identify risk versus benefit
• installing things without a bundles.txt from p2 is something new which isn't on the current list
• wasn't on the list but probably should have been
• we are supposed to "p2-ize" EPP packages for 1.0
• some of the things we have already signed up to do so it would just be a matter of moving up the timetable
• will do some investigation to see how involved a real solution would be
• pascal and john to investigate

Filenames

• bundles.txt, content.xml, artifacts.xml
• should we rename so we aren't commiting to a file format?
• we don't have API but once we pick a file we have to stick with it
• want to be able to change things later and not look goofy
• we will change for M6
• pascal to open a bug for dicussion - bug 217700

Source bundles

• what should the name be?
• where is it located?
• people need to be able to discover it
• written by the eclipse touchpoint
• didn't want to put them in the bundles.txt because they are a tooling thing and not a runtime thing
• we will keep them in separate files

Use the tool

• need to provision an sdk and use it
• not eating our own dog food
• will be enabling pack 200
• generator adds the packed guy if its there
• should add a debug option to know if we are really using this

Update site

• will set up an update site
• andrew looking at composite repos
• is this similar to the mirroring tool?

Bugs

• what do we do with bugs which we aren't going to fix for 3.4?
• people don't like "later"
• 3.5? 3.4.1?
• bring it up at the eclipse arch call

Graduation

• where do we graduate p2?
• project repo
• is it a sub-project?
• topic for eclipse arch call
• note when we graduate the bug component will change