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.

Participants and times they cannot attend:

• Dave Stevenson - Tues 11-12:30 EST; Wed 2-3
• Pascal Rapicault - Tues 8h - 12h EDT
• John Arthorne Wed 2:30-6

Schedule of topics and meetings

Ganymede, EPP

People: Jeff

• Installer
• gany-matic

Shape of eclipse

People:

• • layout on disk
  • layout in zip
  • installer
  • how many agents
  • p2-ization, when, what for, what from
  • Do we keep features?
  • Handling of multiple installation
  • Support for Vista

API

People: Jeff, Susan

• • how many bundles
  • do we have an API

Build

People: Andrew N

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

Tooling

People: Darin,

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

Download technology

People: Tim W, Scott

• • download manger
  • download manager UI
  • proxy
  • authenticatiuon
  • timestamp

Plan for SDK integration

People:

• • function
  • robustness level

Metadata

People:

• • 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

Shared installs

People: Andrew O

Update manager compatibility

People: Simon, DJ, Dave S

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

User interaction scenarios

People: Susan

• • Support for drag & drop install
  • Signature

No meeting assigned:

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