Equinox Minutes - 20090908

Attendees

• Tom
• John
• Pascal
• Jeff
• Simon
• DJ

Agenda

• 3.6 Planning draft plan
  • EclipseSource will do some work in server-side to make it easier to use
  • EclipseSource ease of use issues with p2. Make it easier to assemble a solution.
  • Multi-locale support with help from EclipseSource
  • Are our plan items too fine grain.
    • We should have a more general item that we can group these items under. Gives a more clear message.
    • Use bug reports to capture more fine grained work.
  • Need to get input from Martin on Weaving plan.
• e4 compatibility
  • OSGi in the context of e4.
    • What cleanup can we do in e4.
    • Remove old stuff
      • plug-in converter, can that be a compatibility fragment.
    • Logging
      • Do we want to logging bundle in the framework? Perhaps as a framework fragment?
      • Our tracing service is looking very close to extended log service.
    • Console
      • Can we split this out into another bundle or framework fragment.
    • Improve our programming model to make it easier to use?
    • R5 OSGi, what are the implications to the code base.
  • What about removing core.runtime
    • Move branding API into app bundle.
  • Adopt DS everywhere to avoid Platform API, or some other injection method.
    • Use p2 as an example for injection. Is DS powerful enough.
    • EventAdmin added to RCP, it needs to be activated. Can it use DS.
      • Issues for scenarios that do not use DS
      • Need code pattern that works when DS is present and when it is not.
• GSOC