Equinox p2 Meeting 20080114

See Equinox p2 Meetings for complete index.

Agenda

It's decision time. We're going to cover the set of things that need consideration for release.

Attendees

• Scott Lewis
• Dave Stevenson
• Stefan Liebig
• Darin Wright
• Andrew Overholt
• John Arthorne
• Tim Mok
• Jeff McAffer
• Susan Franklin
• DJ Houghton
• Pascal Rapicault
• Simon Kaegi

Minutes

• Ganymede, EPP

• Shape of eclipse
  • layout on disk
  • layout in zip
  • installer
  • how many agents
  • p2-ization, when, what for, what from

• API
  • how many bundles
  • do we have an API

• robustness
  • recovery

• Build
  • What do we build from?
  • What is being produced?
  • Product build
  • Packager

• Tooling
  • UI Workflows
  • Change to pde ui code
  • Relation PDE / update
  • p2 target provisioner

• Download technology
  • download manger
  • download manager UI
  • proxy
  • authenticatiuon

• Plan for SDK integration
  • function
  • robustness level

• Metadata
  • Metadata structure for an eclipse application
    • product vs extension.
    • Description of a "base" (to support firefox like model and allow the uninstallation of everything) and its UI terminology
  • shape of new items:
    • update
    • fix pack
    • translation
    • flavor

• Shared installs

• Update manager compatibility
  • where are we?
  • what are we missing?
  • links folder, extensions folder, policy files
  • install handlers

• Handling of multiple installation

• Fwk admin

- User interaction scenarios - support for drag & drop install - signature

Tooling: PDE / PDE UI

- build (what level)
- ui
- packager

Other Topics:

can we get rid of features
rely on a base
self hosting
mirroring
repository support
ganymede and EPP
download manager
conditional get -- Tim
target provisioner
editor work
Spectrum of p2-ization:
when / on what / what for
resolver

Wrap up call on thursday
Testing