Equinox Minutes - 20071106

November 6, 2007

Tom is reviewing the security contribution
naming conventions
- should we be adding "internal" to the package name to things which we are graduating
- yes, will point people to the web page describing the changes

deadline for contributions is soon (Nov 19)
4 tracks potentially related to our team: RCP, OSGi, Eclipse as a Platform, Java
are there demo slots?
tutorials are all short this year (2 hours) but you can chain them together (part 1, part 2, etc)
suggestions:
- long talks - p2, security, api tooling, eclipse as a runtime
- tutorials - application admin, pde/build (simple, advanced), server-side, api workshop, pde, programming models, eRCP
- short talks - launcher
potential for a hackfest at EclipseCon this year
- room with tables and power for committers to go and hack
- good for teams which are geographically separate

Allan has started working on p2 garbage collection
starting off with gc for artifact repositories
working on coming up with a usable API
trying to define scope and granularity
for now not dealing with multiple agents sharing the same pool
could we mark repositories as being owned by a particular guy so no one else touches it
how do you garbage collect metadata
we also talked about having a safe-mode for the agent - don't delete specific data
the artifacts in the repository might be in different forms: JAR, packed JAR, delta, etc
consider scalability issues since we will have thousands of bundles

source bundles
- when are we flipping the switch?
- Andrew opened a bug against RelEng with a list of things that need to be done
SAT investigation
- no update yet - Jeff to look at this
dynamic bundle mark-up
- are we doing this in 3.4?
declaratively listening to events
- proposal was sent to the mailing list