Equinox p2 Meeting Week Jan 14-18 2008

A number of meetings will be held the week of Jan 14 - 18, 2008 to make DECISIONS about the content of the release. All times listed are in Eastern Standard Time

Participants and times they cannot attend:

• Dave Stevenson - Tues 11-12:30 EST; Wed 2-3
• Pascal Rapicault - Tues 8h - 12h EST
• John Arthorne Wed 2:30-6
• Scott Lewis - Wed 11am-2pm PT (2pm-5pm EST)

Schedule of topics and meetings

Monday

Update manager compatibility

When: Monday 1:30-2:30

Who: Simon, DJ, Dave S, John, Pascal

What:

• where are we?
• what are we missing?
• links folder, extensions folder, policy files
• install handlers

Tooling

When: Tuesday 2:30-4:30

Who: Darin, Susan, John, Pascal

What:

• UI Workflows
• Change to pde ui code
• Relation PDE / update
• p2 target provisioner
• Feature selfhosting replacement
• Do we keep features
• editor work

Minutes:

• Authoring tooling
  • Editors
    • Need to maintain editors for old stuff: update sites, features, etc
    • Do we need an editor for authoring IUs directly? No. People will continue to author features, etc, and we will generate the p2 metadata behind the scenes.
    • Not clear what changes are needed in product editor. Perhaps a flag/checkbox to specify whether p2 or UM is being used. Also a way to set the start level of bundles.
  • Repositories
  • Should we have tooling in PDE for browsing/publishing to remote repositories? No.
• Publishing
  • Nice to have, but probably not for 1.0
• Target provisioner
  • Currently there can only be one active target platform. Would like to evolve to support multiple active target platforms
  • We will add a p2 target provisioner that can take things from a p2 repository, and fetch the IUs selected by the user.

• Launch tooling
• Compatibility
• Build
  • Need to be able to publish/export in either new format or old format

• Suppose I deploy an application that is entirely "new school". It contains no features, only IUs. Someone wants to author a feature that depends on a group in this new school application. How can the user specify this dependency in the feature editor? Currently this is broken in a p2-provisioned Eclipse SDK.

Shape of eclipse

When: Monday 4:30-

Who: Jeff, Susan, Simon, DJ, Andrew N, John, Pascal

What:

• We will keep the old all-in-one zip downloads. No configuration: unzip and run.
• We will continue to ship the same feature.xmls for the SDK
  • Zip layout is same as Eclipse 3.3, plus p2 stuff:

- eclipse/
 - eclipse.exe
 - plugins/
 - features/
 - p2/

• Is all the p2 metadata pre-configured or generated on first startup?
  • bundles.txt, profile/install registry, bundle pool
  • Easiest solution is that nothing gets automatically spoofed up on startup. Packagers/builders must invoke the "p2-izer" to prepare their zips

• installer
• how many agents
• p2-ization, when, what for, what from
• Handling of multiple installation
• Support for Vista

Tuesday

User interaction scenarios

When: Tuesday 9:30-12:00

Who: Susan, Tim M, John, Pascal

What:

• Support for drag & drop install
• Prompting for trusted signers, licenses
• Do we keep the dropins folder concept
• Do we keep the UI to add extension locations?
• Do we keep the old ui?
• Verify that all the update manager functionalities are covered in p2
• Do we want to keep the disable functionality, how do we implement it?
• UI for drop-ins folder?

Metadata

When: Tuesday 2-4

Who: Dave, John, Pascal, Jeff

What:

• Metadata structure for an eclipse application
  • product vs extension.
  • Description of a "base" (to support firefox like model and allow the uninstallation of everything) and its UI terminology
• shape of new items:
  • update
  • fix pack
  • translation
  • flavor

Wednesday

Shared installs

When: Wednesday 9:30-10:30

Who: Andrew O, Pascal

What:

Ganymede, EPP

When: 10:30-12

Who: Jeff, Thomas H, John, Pascal

What:

• Installer
• gany-matic

Download technology

When: Wednesday 1-2

Who: Tim W, Scott, Tim M, Thomas H, John, Pascal

What:

• download manger
• download manager UI
• proxy support
• authentication (basic login/pwd prompting)
• timestamps
• mirroring

Build

When: Wednesday 3-4

Who: Andrew N, Andrew O, Pascal

What:

• What do we build from?
• What is being produced?
• Product build
• Packager

Thursday

API

When: Thursday 9-11

Who: Jeff, Susan, John, Pascal

What:

• how many bundles
• do we have an API

Plan for SDK integration

When: Thursday 1-3

Who: Jeff, John, Pascal

What:

• function
• robustness level

No meeting assigned:

• Robustness
  • recovery
• Resolver
• Fwk admin
  • What do we do with it?
  • Will PDE need to use it?
• mirroring
• Repository support
• Testing