Equinox p2 Meeting 20080128

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Agenda

• Where are we at wrt to our M5 goals?
  • Are we adding support for source.bundles.txt?
  • Do we want to review the namespaces and id used in MD (e.g.: osgi.packages, flavor, etc.)?
  • Do we change the JRE level?
  • Translation?

• What will be the shape of the other downloads: RCP, delta packs?

Attendees

• John Arthorne
• DJ Houghton
• Simon Kaegi
• Susan McCourt
• Tim Mok
• Andrew Overholt
• Pascal Rapicault
• Dave Stevenson
• Curtis Windatt
• Darin Wright

Minutes

• Graduation review
  • scheduled for Feb 13
  • ip log + slides need to be ready for Feb 6
  • not clear whether we have to do package renames before graduation
  • PMC questions - compatibility, install shape, layering UM on p2

• Eclipse M5
  • where are we at?
  • simon has released profile delta code
  • still need to change the Director API because it doesn't handle property changes, only IU level changes
  • Director should be updated to match the API changes in the Planner
  • do we really need the director API? its an aggregator to avoid multiple calls for headless stuff
  • need to clean up the Engine#perform method... too many operand arguments in the API
  • tighten up the api of the profile in the profile registry

• Performance
  • we added individual source bundles to the build which slowed things down
  • how to fix this in p2?
  • we aren't going to put the source bundles into the bundles.txt
  • pde isn't happy because it can't find the source bundles anymore (looks in the bundles.txt)
  • old-style install isn't happy because the source features can't find the source bundles so the dependancies aren't satisfied
  • talked about having a source-bundles.txt which contains the list of source bundles
  • can modify PDE to look at this file
  • would have to update UM to look into this file too
  • what happens at uninstall time? what happens when you uninstall the source feature?
  • PDE might be out of sync if there is an uninstall and the user doesn't restart
  • probably has the same problem today
  • do we want to write the source-bundles.txt for M5?
  • we will try to do it - Pascal to investigate

• Installer
  • john created it
  • working with Kim on getting it included in the build
  • hard to get content to test it with
  • update site is stale... contains stale metadata
  • had 6 builds listed but only artifacts for 2 or 3
  • brings in all optional dependencies which aren't singletons

• Builds
  • how often do we want to run our builds?
  • have to run from tags
  • 9pm Ottawa time
  • Pascal to tag

• UI work
  • looking ok for M5
  • clean-up inside the UI
  • is anyone working on the code to switch between the old and new UI?
  • Tim to work on that (not started yet)

• Signature verification and trusting
  • Tim working on this right now
  • caching JARs locally done, awaiting to be reviewed
  • Pascal to review

• Running the manual tests
  • Simon to run them
  • Andrew to run on linux
  • wait to run them on the tues i-build

• Translation
  • Dave looking at this
  • will prob be able to get the metadata generated for it (for M5)
  • Dave and Susan to sync up w.r.t. what this means to the ui
  • would like to have a pseudo-translation available for testing

• JRE
  • Simon to change the level of the JRE that we are shipping with
  • we should change the description so people who are using 1.6, are able to run with it
  • would be nice to be able to ship with a JRE (download it)
  • also need to discover what the user is running with
  • can point to a JRE dir and run the generator and it will zip it up but in this it can't figure out that its a JRE, only a native thing

• Update Manager compatibility
  • DJ needs another set of eyes to look at the reconciler
  • problems when adding the dropins bundle to a provisioned SDK

• Products
  • product iu from product metadata
  • Pascal to ask Andrew to look into this

• MAC
  • support for mac launching
  • Pascal to get help with this

• Delivering a provisioned SDK
  • would like to have a provisioned SDK available as a download
  • time permitting for M5

• pack200
  • support for pack200 is now in
  • need to verify we do the right things, download the right files, put them in the right place, etc.

• Shape of downloads
  • currently we have JDT, PDE, etc downloads
  • zip files which you extract over-top a platform install
  • are they relevant in p2?
  • p2 requires the bundles.txt file to be updated
  • if someone is creating a custom product based on multiple zips from Eclipse, then these zips would still be useful
  • ideally, they should be obsolete

• Shared install
  • coming along ok
  • ran into a few problems
  • Andrew to provide patch to Simon w.r.t. profile properties