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Equinox Meeting Minutes/20090630

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Revision as of 11:17, 30 June 2009 by Tjwatson.us.ibm.com (Talk | contribs) (Galileo Retrospective)

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Galileo Retrospective

Please add your retrospective items here. We will have a retrospective discussion based on the input provided here.

  • OSGi Specification delays put our release at risk. What measures, if any, can we take to avoid issues in future releases? What specification schedule would be acceptable for including on the June Eclipse train? --Tjwatson.us.ibm.com 15:11, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
  • The Equinox/Eclipse projects have strict ramp down schedules, API freeze dates and rules on how to evolve API from release to release. When Equinox/Eclipse projects place a dependency on another project at eclipse what should our policy be for enforcing these rules on the other project? --Tjwatson.us.ibm.com 15:11, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Our formal plan was a bit too ambitious. We should start with a smaller set and consider adding new plan items later if we have time, rather than starting with a large set and deferring a lot. --JohnA 14:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
  • We've become a bit too scared of introducing API, and now we have a growing body of provisional API that has downstream consumers. This will create pressure to keep our provisional API stable, give advance warning of changes etc. We should make it a high priority to convert provisional API used by clients into real API (using data from PDE API tools usage scans) --JohnA 14:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Similar to the API topic John mentions. We have been reluctant to make changes to the framework adaptor hooks. This is not true API (it is of the SPI flavor) but a few projects have hard dependencies on the hooks. Weaving, transforms, EclipseLink all have dependencies on the adaptor hooks. I also know a few commercial products that use them. When is it appropriate to make "breaking" changes to this SPI? --Tjwatson.us.ibm.com 15:17, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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