DSDP/Packaging/Meetings/March 5 2009

Attendees

Martin Results
- According to Mike M, we can have an Eclipse.org project with the intended scope
- Proposal + Newsgroup can be ready by Eclipsecon
- CDT already has a p2 toolchain installer as optional component; Wascana uses this to materialize mingw and libs from their original site; Read Doug Schaefers Blog about the details
- Creating an SF project is simple - Wascana Project page, Wascana Homepage
Bob Results
- Bob applied for Sourceforge project in parallel (not yet provisioned) - may be helpful for first steps
Questions and ideas
- What kind of hyperlinking from Eclipse.org to other places is possible?
  - Martin: This is under investigation by the Eclipse IP Advisory board now:
  - See bug 246945
  - See Architecture Council/Things Committers Should Know/Staging#Links to non-eclipse.org content
  - See Subversive Downloads Page
- Bob agrees to become project lead of the Packaging Project
  - Martin agrees to become 1st Mentor
  - Doug Gaff agrees to become 2nd Mentor
- Project Name just DSDP Packaging Project but could also be more elaborate e.g. like Modeling Amalgamation, ...
- Packaging versus "product" - need to consider bug 261365
Scope of the project is
- Bringing Communities together
- Evangelizing Eclipse as the Framework for the overall embedded Platform
- Enabling external sites to become distros of their stuff (Silicon Vendors, ...)
- This is a slightly different direction than originally proposed (but it's cool!)

Martin to rearrange Wiki contents such that proposal can fit in there
Bob to create initial proposal based on templates already supplied by Martin
Martin to E-Mail Mike and Bjorn asking when proposal needs to be ready such that
Martin to create initial EclipseCon talk slide, about history of the project; compare and contrast to EPP; highlight the different obstacles to address.