Equinox/Meeting Minutes/20110204

Attendees

• Tom
• John R.
• Pascal
• Ian
• Dean
• DJ

Agenda

• Update Policy
• Shared Install and Windows 7
• Bundle Pool

Update Policy

• Running into issues check servers over and over.
• Per repository bases to check server
  • perhaps only check ever 2 months or 1 week etc or every time
  • Pascal is working on a fix that just adds underlying mechanism, but is not exposing it to the user.
  • Should this be an UI instead? Not thinking about this right now.
  • The cache manager does not appear to be working 100%

Shared Install and Windows 7

• On windows 7 Program Files\ is read-only install
  • Bug bug 322477
  • This makes it implicitly a shared install mode
  • Has any work been done here?
    • Dean has been looking at this over the past week
    • Current behavior correct? Should joe user be able to change the installed base?
    • The behavior current posts a bogus message. Do all we need to do is fix this message?
    • Should we show only updates the user can perform or disable updates user cannot perform
    • Can we somehow elevate the user to admin user? Appears this cannot be done in process. Would force a restart? Solution could end up tricky.

Bundle Pools

• File level locking on artifacts repositories
  • profiles are locked but artifact repositories are not.
  • this can cause issues with shared bundle pools.
  • What is involved to do file level locking to artifacts.xml.
  • The framework has storage manager than may be able to assist in implementing proper bundle pool locking.

A tool for export and import what is installed

• There is someone willing to contribute the code.