Equinox p2 Meeting 20080114

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Agenda

It's decision time. We're going to cover the set of things that need consideration for release.

A bunch of additional meetings will be scheduled this week to cover the topics. A separate page has been added to capture the planning and results of these meetings.

Attendees

Scott Lewis
Dave Stevenson
Stefan Liebig
Darin Wright
Andrew Overholt
John Arthorne
Tim Mok
Jeff McAffer
Susan Franklin
DJ Houghton
Pascal Rapicault
Simon Kaegi

Minutes

Ganymede, EPP
- Installer
- gany-matic

Shape of eclipse
- layout on disk
- layout in zip
- installer
- how many agents
- p2-ization, when, what for, what from
- Do we keep features?
- Handling of multiple installation
- Support for Vista

API
- how many bundles
- do we have an API

Robustness
- recovery

Build
- What do we build from?
- What is being produced?
- Product build
- Packager

Tooling
- UI Workflows
- Change to pde ui code
- Relation PDE / update
- p2 target provisioner
- Feature selfhosting replacement
- Do we keep features
- editor work

Download technology
- download manger
- download manager UI
- proxy
- authenticatiuon
- timestamp

Plan for SDK integration
- function
- robustness level

Metadata
- Metadata structure for an eclipse application
  - product vs extension.
  - Description of a "base" (to support firefox like model and allow the uninstallation of everything) and its UI terminology
- shape of new items:
  - update
  - fix pack
  - translation
  - flavor

Shared installs

Update manager compatibility
- where are we?
- what are we missing?
- links folder, extensions folder, policy files
- install handlers

Fwk admin
- What do we do with it?
- Will PDE need to use it?

User interaction scenarios
- Support for drag & drop install
- Signature

Resolver

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Equinox p2 Meeting 20080114

Agenda

Attendees

Minutes