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Ganymede Provisioning Workshop
Eclipse has long had the update manager. Now over five year old, the update manager comes from the era that predates OSGi, where Eclipse had a tools only orientation, and where we could get away with assuming considerable computer skills.
This workshop will bring together committers from interested parties to evaluate current provisioning initiatives, project shared ongoing needs, and sketch an efficient and practical roadmap that leads to quality enabling solutions to provisioning problems.
Contents
Dates
The workshop will meet for two to three days with consideration for long distance travelers. The exact dates and duration will be firmed up around EclipeCon this year.
Location
The event will be held near either Ottawa, Ontario or Portland, Oregon. We prefer a relaxed and somewhat isolated environment where attendess can focus their full attention on workshop business.
Fun
Taking a lesson from the Europa Build Workshop, we feel at least one relaxing group activity should be included. Perhaps soard swalloing or fire walking?
Goals
We will articulate practical and still vision inducing goals shortly. We seek alignment and coordination with existing projects and member companies. Watch this space.
Attendees
We invited you to attend if you ... something or other. It is important for attendees to have real-world knowledge of installation, update or related provisioning activities - this is not a meeting for managers, it's a workshop for do-ers. You were also welcome to attend if you have substantial related experience and a willingness to contribute to the workshop's goals.
How to register
We are not yet taking reservations for this event. However, if you want to be on the "be sure to include me" list, write your name here.
Things to be discussed
We will use this space to discuss tools, methods, protocols and conventions that should be of interest to the participants.
Agenda
The workshop will most likely alternate between plenary and breakout sessions. Attendees will collectivly select breakout topics in plenary session, tangibly contribute in self-assigned breakouts, and then reconvene to summarize results for the whole.
Breakout groups will be expected to quickly identify issues, review likely solutions, and recommend action appropriate to the Europa timeframe. Each group will draft written conclusions in this wiki that will be the basis of their report in the following plenary.
This is the agenda we used for the build workshop. We will adjust this to meet the needs of this workshop as they surface.
Day One
- (30 min) Introduction to the workshop, its roots in Europa, and a vision for its most valuable contribution to Ganymede. -- Ward Cunningham and Jeff McAffer
- (90 min) Lightning retrospectives presenting current systems, best practices, pain points and wish lists. We recommend these be presented from notes prepared in this wiki and following our Lightning Retrospective Guide as appropriate. -- All Attendees
- (15 min) Snack and email break
- (90 min) Lighting retrospectives continued.
- (60 min) Lunch and email break
- (30 min) Topic brainstorm and first cut prioritization. We will use some variation of "cast each of five votes on most important topics". Although topics will probably not be surprising, attendees will begin choosing how to apply their efforts the remainder of the day.
- (60 min) First breakout meeting
- (15 min) Snack, email and wiki writing break
- (30 min) First summary reports and discussion; see Europa Build Workshop Breakout Results
- (60 min) Second breakout meeting
- (15 min) Snack, email and wiki writing break
- (30 min) Second summary reports and discussion
At this point we will break before assembling for dinner. We expect attendees to enjoy Edgefield recreations before and after dinner. However, we hope that the issues of the day and the opportunities for tomorrow will be frequent topics of conversation.
Day Two
- (30 min) Reconvene, overnight reflection. We may have an invited speaker in which case we will enlarge this spot. -- Ward Cunningham
- (60 min) Third breakout meeting
- (15 min) Snack, email and wiki writing break
- (30 min) Third summary reports and discussion
- (60 min) Fourth breakout meeting
- (15 min) Snack, email and wiki writing break
- (30 min) Fourth summary reports and discussion
- (60 min) Lunch and email break
- (60 min) Fifth breakout meeting
- (15 min) Snack, email and wiki writing break
- (30 min) Fifth summary reports and discussion
- (90 min) Consolidation, assessment and call to action -- Bjorn Freeman-Benson, et. al.
At this point the formal workshop will be over. We expect eastbound attendees to stay over for early morning flights.