Difference between revisions of "Equinox p2 Meeting 20080114"

Revision as of 12:46, 14 January 2008

See Equinox p2 Meetings for complete index.

Agenda

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

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

Shape of eclipse:

- installer
- delivery
- build
- recovery
- One agent on the machine, multiple agents, etc..
- standalone installs, and shared through some magic ways?
- how many bundles
- API?

What functionality is missing before integration in the SDK

- function
- robustness level

Metadata structure for an eclipse application

- product vs extension.
- Description of a "base" (to support firefox like model and allow the uninstallation of everything)

Shared installs

Handling of multiple installation

Fwk admin

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

User interaction scenarios - support for drag & drop install - signature

Shape of new metadata items:

- update
- fix pack
- translation
- flavor

Tooling: PDE / PDE UI

- build (what level)
- ui
- packager

Other Topics:

can we get rid of features
rely on a base
self hosting
mirroring
repository support
ganymede and EPP
download manager
conditional get -- Tim
target provisioner
editor work
Spectrum of p2-ization:
when / on what / what for
resolver

Wrap up call on thursday
Testing