Equinox p2 Meeting 20080407

Agenda

• User-readable string to be ready by the end of this week
• Which version of ECF for M6a? https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=225656

Attendees

• Andrew Niefer
• Darin Wright
• Dave Stevenson
• DJ Houghton
• James Miles
• Jed Anderson
• Jeff McAffer
• Pascal Rapicault
• Simon Kaegi
• Susan Franklin
• Tim Mok

Minutes

NLS

• need to have strings ready for translation by the end of this week
  • error messages need to be translated
  • don't have to translate things going directly to the log

M6a

• including a new version of ECF
• had problems including in 3.4 M6 due to mirror replication issues

Bugs

• Jed and Tim are contributing code in the update site space
• have contributed patches on bugs
• how do we handle these incoming bug reports?
• Pascal to triage and assign to person most appropriate to to review
• mark target as 3.4 M7 to draw attention to it

Metadata Generator changes

• Jeff has been working on refactoring the metadata generator
• has been integrating incoming changes from generator and update site projects
• hopes to merge changes soon

Iinitializing the target platform

• download and extract Eclipse
• unzip something over top
• when pointing to that as a target, only the plug-ins in the bundle.info are in the target
• Andrew has come across a similar use-case where people have the delta pack in their target
• Chris has contributed a patch in this area but Darin would like to review it more and make some changes

Touchpoint Commands

• Andrew has a case where people would like to chmod files inside there bundles
• problem is that bundles are an Eclipse touchpoint thing and chmod is a Native touchpoint action
• had originally thought about havng actions which could be called across touchpoints
• not sure if we have enough time to be able to do this

UI

• has a feature list and working through it
• working on filtering
• problems with tree viewer and deferred contents
• working on work-flows: able to add sites through less clicks

Director Application

• update manager had the headless application which would allow people to install from the command-line
• this would be our director application
• need to make sure that we support the same functionality that update manager did
• need to make sure that it works!

Repository Mirroring

• in the build we do a lot of magic copying of index files around
• would like to merge site
• had talked in the past about multiple files
• need someone to own this problem