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Revision as of 15:16, 21 February 2008
Contents
Definition of priorities
At this stage in the 3.4 release, we are prioritizing the remaining work items for the 3.4 delivery.
- P0 = must have before turning the p2 switch on in the SDK (at this point these should be done. In some cases there are patches waiting that don't get applied until we actually turn on the switch).
- P1 = must have for 3.4 release
- P2 = should have for 3.4 - makes UI more usable
- P3 = nice to have for 3.4 - "wow factor"
Remaining work items
- P1
- Verify trust and insert UI for signature verification <Tim>
- Detection of install handlers and launch UM when found <Susan>
- Ability to add repos by just pointing at a jar, dir that is not already a p2 repo (UM extension locations) <Susan>
- Integration of directory watcher/drop-ins folder prefs <Susan>
- Repo login and user verification issues <Tim>
- Recovery application <Tim>
- Integrate artifact GC and any prefs needed <Susan>
- P2
- Usability improvements in available and installed IU views (improved context) <Susan>
- Streamlined revert UI/history page as peer to installed/available view <Susan>
- P3
Milestone plans
M6
- P0 Understand the tie between the UI and the Update manager, UM hides its contributions if p2 is there <Tim>
- P0 Fix annoying auto-update popup bugs and overeager error reporting
- P0 Detect invalid update plans before notifying user
- P0 Fix remaining unacceptable UI bugs (duplicate categories, etc.)
- P1 Verify trust and insert UI for signature verification <Tim>
- P1 Detection of install handlers and launch UM when found <Susan>
- P1 Ability to add repos by just pointing at a jar, dir that is not already a p2 repo (UM extension locations) <Susan>
- P1 Integration of directory watcher/drop-ins folder prefs <Susan>
M5
- P1 Performance issues
- Restructure available IU viewer for PDE consumption
- API for profile change requests
- Automatic updates life-cycle, affordance and popup workflow
- Improve property pages for IUs in end user UI
- Summary info for install/update wizards
M4
- Polish install and update scenarios
- Notify of auto-download separate from install
- Preferences for reminding user of available updates Bug 207493
- Performance/progress when resolving/planning
- Improved support for browsing repos
- IU categories Bug 203115
- remove duplicates, better sorting
- show only latest versions
- Refactoring and code polish items
- UI for Revert Bug 205223
- Improved way to present licenses and remember accepted licenses Bug 205232
- Admin UI features as needed by team
M3
- End user UI
- Improve workflow and information pre-<install/update/uninstall>
- Prompting replaced by informational wizard Bug 204321
- Size/time estimation on install/update (Depends on Bug 201488)
- One entry point per group Bug 204823
- Detect invalid states on install/update/uninstall
- Polling for software updates and associated user prefs
- Improve workflow and information pre-<install/update/uninstall>
- Admin UI
M2
- Install, Uninstall, and/or update IU's from running profile
- user views installed IU's in the current profile
- user can manage repositories as an advanced feature (separate button on dialog)
- repositories are colocated (no distinction between metadata and artifact repo)
- UI prequalifies the install
- figure out if the install is valid using oracle
- [deferred] use advanced oracle to flag any invalid states
- [deferred] use advanced oracle to precompute info such as download size/time, etc.
- user can uninstall an installed IU
- user can update an installed IU
- Repository naming
- repo level
- [deferred] user can override repo name
- Better filtering of repos and IU's (show only what's relevant to end user)
- Refactor drag support into common UI project
- Filtering of IU's based on entry point concept
- Give the ability to name what is being installed
- Admin UI can launch end user UI from selected profile in profile view
- should be able to disable colocated repo management
- AdminUI views show enhanced info about objects (multiple columns)
- AdminUI and User UI contribute different property pages
M1
- Browse repositories
- Add/remove repositories
- Browse IU's in a metadata repository
- Install IU from a metadata repository into a selected profile
- Browse profiles
- Add/remove profiles
- Browse IU's in a profile
- Uninstall IU
Additional Requirements
This is a list of some original UI requirements that are not on the 3.4 plan.
- Installation by drag and drop on a running eclipse
- Install from a click on the webpage
- Silent installation
- Support installation even when there are errors in the configuration