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Equinox p2 Meeting 20080114

Revision as of 13:18, 14 January 2008 by Unnamed Poltroon (Talk) (Minutes)

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.

A bunch of additional meetings will be scheduled this week to cover the topics. A separate page has been added to capture the planning and results of these meetings.

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
    • Installer
    • gany-matic


  • Shape of eclipse
    • layout on disk
    • layout in zip
    • installer
    • how many agents
    • p2-ization, when, what for, what from
    • Do we keep features?
    • Handling of multiple installation


  • 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
    • Feature selfhosting replacement
    • Do we keep features
    • editor work


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


  • Fwk admin
    • What do we do with it?
    • Will PDE need to use it?


  • User interaction scenarios
    • Support for drag & drop install
    • Signature


  • Resolver


Other Topics:

rely on a base
self hosting
mirroring
repository support
Wrap up call on thursday
Testing

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