Equinox/p2/Meetings/20090421

Discussion topics

• Early test pass
  • Matt will focus on the UI
    • Susan, Matt and Henrik to work on repository to help validate the work done around better error message for transport issues, authentication, etc.
  • Simon to look at shared installs
  • Ian reminds that PDE UI export needs to be tried out

• Come back on the inability to update to a new I build because of the rmdir behavior
  • We collectively thought about what could go wrong especially in the light of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=270542

• PDE Target Provisioner - Has anyone tried it yet?
  • Darin and Curtis briefly describe the new target provisioner they have done. It supports multiple OS by adding plug-ins manually.
  • Pascal to look at one problem where the A.JRE IU is not included. Also the possibility for PDE to pre-populate the profile with an IU is emitted.

• Andrew reports that Kim is very close to build the SDK with new PDE Build / publisher infrastructure. This is extremely cool.

• Overall 3.5 status
  • John is done with perf improvements
  • Simon is worried about some intermittent failing tests and needs to look into shared install problems on the mac
  • DJ, nothing blocking
  • Matt, nothing blocking
  • Susan, most the bugs can be shipped without them being addressed
  • Henrik, nothing major, will probably look into the issue of robust uninstall behavior
  • Ian, patches are prepared for various publisher issues and also for category export. Email to be sent on the ML.
  • Thomas H, he is taking owner ship of director app related bugs. Working on a solution to bug 268138. Pascal to provide feedback.
  • Pascal, nothing blocking
  • Andrew, need to do work to ensure 3.5 can build 3.4.x. Need to work on the structure of the executable feature.