Equinox/p2/Meetings/20100712

Agenda

• Pascal is out this week
  • No real agenda

Attendees

• Ian
• Tom
• Susan
• Andrew

Minutes

• Discussed bug 317785
  • Thread safety issues in mirroring
  • Seems that Java 7 sorting has changed in a way that surfaces the issue
  • Need to evaluate if there is any need for a 3.6.1 fix and what the risks are
• Ian discussed enhancements to publishing update descriptors
  • Allows for staged updates. Allows for you to force a particular update path V1 -> V2 -> V3 instead of V1 -> V3.
  • It is possible today but requires hand editing p2 metadata.
• Andrew mentions that Ian can look at other things that can be done with p2.inf now that he has knowledge of the code, e.g. Patch IUs.
• Ian Composite performance and improvements in loading child repos in parallel.
  • Looks like this was discussed in the last p2 meeting as well.