Difference between revisions of "Equinox Minutes - 20090915"

Revision as of 10:43, 15 September 2009

Need to update google calendar.
Status
- RFC 138, new draft.
Use of DS for compendium service implementations
- The org.eclipse.update.configurator currently uses an approach.
- Use another lazy mechanism to register the services.
- Open a bug against compendium to discuss more ideas.
API to interrogate DS components.
- Equinox impl provides console commands to do this
- Apache Felix has a programmatic API
- Should we 1) invent our own API 2) collaborate with AF to use their API 3) go straight to spec an API
GSOC
- Ian and Jeff were working with a student (Chris Matthews).
  - Create a "small" VM image to run on the cloud.
  - Started rather large and pairing it back.
  - Based on Linux.
  - A tool to piece together an image with Linux, Equinox and p2 enabled to manage with a web-based UI.
  - Student is interested in continuing work.
- Pascal talked a bit about trying to replace YUM with p2 to manage linux.
- Pascal describe other GSOC projects
  - Web-installer - project did not progress well. Did not move very far.
  - Matt investigated tools for interrogating p2 meta-data. Allows you to look at the dependencies of a p2 repo. Work still to be done to get it integrated into the agent. All UI based.
Equinox book status

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 *** A tool to piece together an image with Linux, Equinox and p2 enabled to manage with a web-based UI.
 *** Student is interested in continuing work.
+** Pascal talked a bit about trying to replace YUM with p2 to manage linux.
+** Pascal describe other GSOC projects
+*** Web-installer - project did not progress well.  Did not move very far.
+*** Matt investigated tools for interrogating p2 meta-data.  Allows you to look at the dependencies of a p2 repo.  Work still to be done to get it integrated into the agent.  All UI based.
 * Equinox book status