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== Tooling == | == Tooling == | ||
| − | '''modification of the build infrastructure to produce artifact and metadata repos''' | + | ; '''modification of the build infrastructure to produce artifact and metadata repos''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''modification of the product build to produce p2 eanbled products''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''tasks wrappering the metadata generator''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''tasks wrappering the director application''' | |
| − | '''modification of the product build to produce p2 eanbled products''' | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''generation of artifact / metadata repo from the content of the workspace''' | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''provision on launch''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''target provisioner reading the bundles.txt''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | '''tasks wrappering the metadata generator''' | + | ; '''target provisioner reading the profile''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''target provisioner invoking the user UI to provision into the target (if it is associated with a profile)''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 3 | |
| − | + | ; '''integration of the repository browsing UI into a PDE/p2 view''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ; '''converter from site.xml to p2 categories''' | |
| − | '''tasks wrappering the director application''' | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''repository edition to publish / remove artfiacts and metadata''' | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | : Note: This is necessary if we don't want people to start messing around with the content of the file directly. Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''target to read bundles.txt''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''target to read profiles''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | '''generation of artifact / metadata repo from the content of the workspace''' | + | ; '''target provisioning UI''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 3 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''Metadata generator advises''' |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ;'''Site optimizer''' | |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ; '''How does the source gets provisioned in the target''' | |
| − | '''provision on launch''' | + | : N/A |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''target provisioner reading the bundles.txt''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''target provisioner reading the profile''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''target provisioner invoking the user UI to provision into the target (if it is associated with a profile)''' | + | |
| − | Priority: 3 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''integration of the repository browsing UI into a PDE/p2 view''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''converter from site.xml to p2 categories''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''repository edition to publish / remove artfiacts and metadata''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Note: This is necessary if we don't want people to start messing around with the content of the file directly | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''target to read bundles.txt''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''target to read profiles''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''target provisioning UI''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 3 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Metadata generator advises''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Site optimizer''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''How does the source gets provisioned in the target''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
==User interaction== | ==User interaction== | ||
| − | '''Have a preference to allow for automatic download before installation''' | + | ; '''Have a preference to allow for automatic download before installation''' |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ; '''Have a preference to silent installation''' | |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ; '''Need a way to identify a license uniquely''' | |
| − | '''Have a preference to silent installation''' | + | : N/A |
| − | + | ; '''A way to present remembered licenses''' | |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ; '''A way to present remembered signatures''' | |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | '''Need a way to identify a license uniquely''' | + | ; '''Better presentation of licenses''' |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ; '''Support for installation even when there are errors in the configuration''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ||
| − | '''A way to present remembered licenses''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''A way to present remembered signatures''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Better presentation of licenses''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Support for installation even when there are errors in the configuration''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
==Download technology== | ==Download technology== | ||
| − | '''Adaptative download manager''' | + | ; '''Adaptative download manager''' |
| + | : Priority: 2 | ||
| + | ; '''MD5 / SHA1 processing steps''' | ||
| + | : Priority: 1 | ||
| + | ; '''Delta processing step''' | ||
| + | : Priority: 1 | ||
| + | ; '''Transparent selection of artifact repository''' | ||
| + | : Priority: 1 | ||
| + | ; '''Pack 200 support''' | ||
| + | : N/A | ||
| − | + | ==Core technologies== | |
| − | + | ; '''Response file''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ; '''provide infrastructure to remember accepted signers per profile''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''provide infrastructure to remember accepted licenses per profile''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''support for invoking the engine on a phase basis''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ;'''governor''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''need a way to express the governor permissions''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''Need a way to ensure that a bundle pool is only used by one agent to avoid problems with GC''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ;'''define how categorization of site is done''' | |
| − | + | :Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ;'''simple configurator policy''' | |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ; '''framework admin, review the performance on big scenarios''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ;'''simple configurator, ensure startup performance''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''simple configurator, ensure start level order''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ; '''reconciliation with bundles watched from directories''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''support to restart failed download.''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ; '''phases''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''persistence of actions''' | |
| − | '''Response file''' | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''support for fixes in the metadata''' | |
| − | Priority: 2 | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''support for update in the metadata''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''support for sequenced update in the metadata''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | '''provide infrastructure to remember accepted signers per profile''' | + | ;'''translation of metadata''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''Discovery of JRE and how do we deal with changing JREs''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''make the agent dynamic''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''Scalability''' | |
| − | '''provide infrastructure to remember accepted licenses per profile''' | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''Movable installs''' | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ; '''Variables''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ; '''Nested profiles''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 3 | |
| − | '''support for invoking the engine on a phase basis''' | + | ; '''Do we need to separate the configuration from the installation''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''Locating files in one IU''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''Locating files in another IU''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ; '''Support to canonicalize version numbers''' | |
| − | '''governor''' | + | : Priority: 2 |
| − | + | ;'''Shared agent data access''' | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | : Priority: 1 |
| − | + | ;'''Scope which repositories are used for a given operation''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 2 | |
| − | + | ; '''Repositories associated to a profile''' | |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | '''need a way to express the governor permissions''' | + | ; '''Separate meta-level capabilities and requirements from the base level ones |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''Expression of dependencies''' |
| − | + | : N/A | |
| − | + | ; '''policy to purge the rollback registry''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''support for the rollback registry to keep track of why there is this entry in it''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ; '''Artifact garbage collector''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | '''Need a way to ensure that a bundle pool is only used by one agent to avoid problems with GC''' | + | ; '''Metadata garbage collector''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''directory watcher policies''' |
| − | + | : Three variations: | |
| − | + | ||
| − | '''define how categorization of site is done''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''simple configurator policy''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''framework admin, review the performance on big scenarios''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''simple configurator, ensure startup performance''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''simple configurator, ensure start level order''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''reconciliation with bundles watched from directories''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''support to restart failed download.''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''phases''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''persistence of actions''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''support for fixes in the metadata''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''support for update in the metadata''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''support for sequenced update in the metadata''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''translation of metadata''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Discovery of JRE and how do we deal with changing JREs''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''make the agent dynamic''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Scalability''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Movable installs''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Variables''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Nested profiles''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 3 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Do we need to separate the configuration from the installation''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Locating files in one IU''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Locating files in another IU''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Support to canonicalize version numbers''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Shared agent data access''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Scope which repositories are used for a given operation''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 2 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Repositories associated to a profile''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Separate meta-level capabilities and requirements from the base level ones | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Expression of dependencies''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''policy to purge the rollback registry''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''support for the rollback registry to keep track of why there is this entry in it''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Artifact garbage collector''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Metadata garbage collector''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''directory watcher policies''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Three variations: | + | |
* call Director.install() and potentially generate metadata (Priority: 1) | * call Director.install() and potentially generate metadata (Priority: 1) | ||
* to call FwkAdmin.addBundle() (Priority 2) | * to call FwkAdmin.addBundle() (Priority 2) | ||
* to call BundleContext.installBundle() (Priority 2) | * to call BundleContext.installBundle() (Priority 2) | ||
| − | + | ; '''shared installs''' | |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | '''shared installs''' | + | ; '''sharing of bundles across eclipses''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | Priority: 1 | + | ; '''Ability to share the agent data across multiple running processes''' |
| − | + | : Priority: 1 | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''sharing of bundles across eclipses''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | '''Ability to share the agent data across multiple running processes''' | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Priority: 1 | + | |
Revision as of 22:35, 29 October 2007
Contents
Tooling
- modification of the build infrastructure to produce artifact and metadata repos
- Priority: 1
- modification of the product build to produce p2 eanbled products
- Priority: 1
- tasks wrappering the metadata generator
- Priority: 1
- tasks wrappering the director application
- Priority: 1
- generation of artifact / metadata repo from the content of the workspace
- Priority: 1
- provision on launch
- Priority: 1
- target provisioner reading the bundles.txt
- Priority: 1
- target provisioner reading the profile
- Priority: 2
- target provisioner invoking the user UI to provision into the target (if it is associated with a profile)
- Priority: 3
- integration of the repository browsing UI into a PDE/p2 view
- Priority: 2
- converter from site.xml to p2 categories
- Priority: 1
- repository edition to publish / remove artfiacts and metadata
- Note: This is necessary if we don't want people to start messing around with the content of the file directly. Priority: 1
- target to read bundles.txt
- Priority: 1
- target to read profiles
- Priority: 2
- target provisioning UI
- Priority: 3
- Metadata generator advises
- N/A
- Site optimizer
- N/A
- How does the source gets provisioned in the target
- N/A
User interaction
- Have a preference to allow for automatic download before installation
- N/A
- Have a preference to silent installation
- N/A
- Need a way to identify a license uniquely
- N/A
- A way to present remembered licenses
- N/A
- A way to present remembered signatures
- N/A
- Better presentation of licenses
- N/A
- Support for installation even when there are errors in the configuration
- Priority: 2
Download technology
- Adaptative download manager
- Priority: 2
- MD5 / SHA1 processing steps
- Priority: 1
- Delta processing step
- Priority: 1
- Transparent selection of artifact repository
- Priority: 1
- Pack 200 support
- N/A
Core technologies
- Response file
- Priority: 2
- provide infrastructure to remember accepted signers per profile
- Priority: 1
- provide infrastructure to remember accepted licenses per profile
- Priority: 1
- support for invoking the engine on a phase basis
- Priority: 1
- governor
- Priority: 1
- need a way to express the governor permissions
- Priority: 1
- Need a way to ensure that a bundle pool is only used by one agent to avoid problems with GC
- Priority: 1
- define how categorization of site is done
- Priority: 1
- simple configurator policy
- N/A
- framework admin, review the performance on big scenarios
- Priority: 1
- simple configurator, ensure startup performance
- Priority: 1
- simple configurator, ensure start level order
- Priority: 2
- reconciliation with bundles watched from directories
- Priority: 1
- support to restart failed download.
- Priority: 2
- phases
- Priority: 1
- persistence of actions
- Priority: 1
- support for fixes in the metadata
- Priority: 1
- support for update in the metadata
- Priority: 1
- support for sequenced update in the metadata
- Priority: 1
- translation of metadata
- Priority: 1
- Discovery of JRE and how do we deal with changing JREs
- Priority: 1
- make the agent dynamic
- Priority: 1
- Scalability
- Priority: 1
- Movable installs
- Priority: 1
- Variables
- Priority: 2
- Nested profiles
- Priority: 3
- Do we need to separate the configuration from the installation
- Priority: 1
- Locating files in one IU
- Priority: 1
- Locating files in another IU
- Priority: 2
- Support to canonicalize version numbers
- Priority: 2
- Shared agent data access
- Priority: 1
- Scope which repositories are used for a given operation
- Priority: 2
- Repositories associated to a profile
- N/A
- Separate meta-level capabilities and requirements from the base level ones
- Priority: 1
- Expression of dependencies
- N/A
- policy to purge the rollback registry
- Priority: 1
- support for the rollback registry to keep track of why there is this entry in it
- Priority: 1
- Artifact garbage collector
- Priority: 1
- Metadata garbage collector
- Priority: 1
- directory watcher policies
- Three variations:
- call Director.install() and potentially generate metadata (Priority: 1)
- to call FwkAdmin.addBundle() (Priority 2)
- to call BundleContext.installBundle() (Priority 2)
- shared installs
- Priority: 1
- sharing of bundles across eclipses
- Priority: 1
- Ability to share the agent data across multiple running processes
- Priority: 1
Support for undo-ing an operation after an agent crash
Priority: 1
Support continuing of an engine operation upon restart of the agent
Priority: 1
Support for DBCS in repos, in install path and other Uis
Priority: 1
Support for multiple bundle artifacts in one IU
Priority: 2
Review the concept of flavor and the default flavor we ship
Priority: 1
Refine the concept of marker
Priority: 1
Ability for touchpoint to cause a runtime to be started / stopped / restarted
Priority: 1
Do we need to have a mechanism to replace the UM policy files
Priority: 1
Ability to update eclipse.exe
Priority: 2
Ability to specify multiple bundle pools
Priority: 1
Installing bundles in a non running eclipse
Priority: 1
Repositories
Have a way to allow repositories to refer to others (this means mirrors or not)
Priority: 1
embedded repos
Priority: 1
published repos
Priority: 1
Ability to publish artifacts with known processing steps
Priority: 1
Have a repo within a jar for a given bundle
Priority: 1
Authentication to connect to a repository
Priority: 1
Implement ways to have trusted repositories
Priority: 1
Dependency on other Eclipse components
(Platform) support to get the proxy / socks from the OS
(ECF) ECF make sure proxy / socks settings are honored properly
(ECF) Support for https
(ECF) Authentication to connect to an http server
(ECF) Exchange of certificates on connection
(Security) Storage of certificates
(Security) Storage of login information in a session
(Platform) Markup for dynamic bundles
UM Compatibility
Do we have to keep delivering the features?
How do we deal with platform.xml?
Do we allow for the installation of old style update site content through the new UI
Do we leave the old API?
Do we change UM to produce a bundles.txt instead of a platform.xml
Review the different UM policies and how they map/apply in the new world