Equinox Minutes - 20080923

Attendees

• Andrew C
• Andrew N
• DJ
• Eric
• Jeff
• John
• Matt
• Oleg
• Pascal
• Simon
• Tom

Minutes

Planning

• Tom and Jeff have been gathering plan items from people
• Project plan can be found | here
• most of the items are in committed state, which is surprising
• oops, side effect of editing XML. components to go through items and move to appropriate section
• need plan for community awareness as well as to help us organize our work
• plan themes, etc are currently aligned with the Eclipse plan themes
• plan could be read as being a little fragmented w.r.t. cross team/component items so we should work on that
• need to be able to read the plan as a non-Eclipse person and figure out what is happening
• one of the goals is to easily identify cross-team dependencies
• also to identify areas where people are able to contribute to items
• we should have an associated bug report with each plan item (like Eclipse does)
• Tom to get together with Matt and Pascal to flush out security and p2 items
• a few missing things from the plan
• launcher: cocoa port, webStart bug that we hacked to work-around for 3.4
• what about the old "launch an editor from the command-line and desktop" feature request?
  • is this even an Equinox thing? yes, probably
  • will need community help on this
• Oleg has some items in the extension registry that he wants to look at
  • create user objects from configuration elements, singletons, etc.
  • some items are for 3.5 and some are for e4

DS Bundles

• the DS bundles are now being shipped as part of the SDK
• what are the requirements for something to be added to the SDK?
• we aren't using DS in the SDK
• but PDE is used for tooling OSGi in general and not just things that we use
• same argument could be made for other parts of the SDK... like APT

Server-Side

• Matt looking for scenerios and people to talk to about authentication and authorization in the server-side space
• Simon is a good contact for this
• Jeff also will provide some names