Equinox p2 UI Plan

Milestone plan

• M5
  • P1 Performance issues
    • Background resolving/sizing for user-triggered updates
    • Rework model to reference ids (profile ids, repo URLs) in lieu of objects
  • 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
    • Timing of resolves once inside an install/update wizard

• M6
  • Verify trust and insert UI for signature verification <Tim>
  • Understand the tie between the UI and the Update manager, UM hides its contributions if p2 is there <Tim>
  • Better error reporting <Susan>
  • Integration of directory watcher/drop-in location support <Susan>
  • Ability to add repos by just pointing at a jar, dir that is not already a p2 repo (UM extension locations) <Susan>
  • Integrate artifact GC and any prefs needed <Susan>
  • Repo login and user verification issues <Tim>
  • Recovery application <Tim>
  • Additional context and views shown in available and installed IU views <Susan>
  • Streamlined revert UI/history page <Susan>

Additional Requirements

Here are some requirements that have surfaced so far. They are not added in a milestone plan yet.

• 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

Past milestone plans

• 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
    • Clean up adapter usage
    • Clean up/simplify colocated repo handling
    • Use deferred content providers for repo content
    • Allow UI app to specify repo taxonomy via queries
  • 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
      • Automatic updating
      • Alert me when updates available
      • Ability to download and then notify
  • Admin UI
    • Artifact repo view shows artifact descriptors, processing steps, etc.
• 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