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Equinox Minutes - 20090915
Attendees
- Jeff
- Stoyan
- Pascal
- Tom
- DJ
- John
- Simon
Agenda
- Need to update google calendar.
- Status
- Finishing up M2
- Starting M3 work
- Work on p2 installation/update verification framework.
- Work on using JUnit4 with our test framework.
- Working on automated tests for update from 3.5 to 3.6 and rollback
- Started exploration on DI for p2
- RFC 138, new draft written to remove assumption on a real nested framework.
- Lifecycle issues and performance issues when using a real nested framework for isolation.
- 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. bug 289489
- 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.
- Ian and Jeff were working with a student (Chris Matthews).
- Equinox book status
- Jeff asked for reviewers from the Equinox team.
- Today is the day to send in 95% of the content to publisher.
- Make available content for review by tomorrow (hopefully).
- EMF project webpage has link to the EMF book. Would it be OK to add a link to the Equinox book? Consensus on call was that it is OK to do.
- Discuss the Go-Go console and using for Equinox.