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Equinox/p2/Meetings/20090921
Attendees
- Andrew Niefer
- Curtis Windatt
- Darin Wright
- DJ Houghton
- Henrik Lindberg
- Ian Bull
- John Arthorne
- Pascal Rapicault
- Simon Kaegi
- Susan McCourt
- Thomas Hallgren
Minutes
- Plan
- Draft plan: Equinox/p2/Plan
- What do we make API?
- Collect day from release train projects and others on what API is being used today
- Focus on clients simply using p2 rather than extenders
- When do we make API?
- Need to stage how we will roll out the API to minimize client impact
- Must coordinate with Eclipse SDK consumers to avoid N-build breakage
- Must coordinate with release train consumers to avoid Milestone breakage
- Aim for major rollout in M4, refinement in M5, last minute polish in M6
- Alternative way of categorizing content, how?
- Issue 1: tag categories directly on IU rather than externally
- Easier for simple use cases
- Less flexible, requires filtering/overriding for people republishing content with different categories
- There was no consensus on this
- Issue 2: should categories be installable units?
- Categories are not actually installable. Clients that want to do something special with categories need to separate them from IUs to handle them differently
- Would be cleaner as a separate concept
- On the other hand many parts of API take advantage of treating categories as IUs: queries, metadata repositories, capabilities, etc
- Is it worth splitting categories from IUs?
- There was no consensus on this
- Issue 1: tag categories directly on IU rather than externally
- UI, do we want to do anything about optional dependencies? (See bug 247099 and bug 247342).
- We ran out of time for this topic