Equinox p2 Meeting 20080331

Agenda

• M6 Recap
• Review of M7 Plan

Attendees

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

Minutes

• M6 Recap
  • We got p2 out for M6.
  • Lots of last minute work.
  • Good news is that we now have lots of users.
  • Still work to do improving performance and in particular feedback when using old Update Sites.
  • Build problems to work out still but sdk is p2-ized
  • will also produce a non-p2-ized sdk for product teams

• Review of M7 Plan
  • see Equinox p2 Plan for updates

• Publisher / replacement for existing generator
  • coming soon, possibly next week
  • "publisher" should help with product and existing update site update to p2 metadata

• Recovery tool
  • has a validate, cleanup, re-install cycle
  • hope to deal with tough problems like corrupt artifacts

• Best effort recovery in the UI
  • similar to dropins support, possibly in an advanced tab

• UI for GC
  • 3 possibilities - managed, disabled, manual

• PDE work
  • target provisioning in progress
  • some discussion around self hosting but likely deffered to post 3.4