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| − | This page lays out milestone plans for the development of [[Equinox p2]] in Eclipse 3.4.
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| − | == Current Milestone Plan: 3.4 M3 - November 2, 2007 ==
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| − | * Establish concrete set of functionality to be available in 3.4 final
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| − | * [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] Perform rename of bundles and packages to the new name: p2. Updating wiki pages and other documents accordingly (dj/John)
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| − | * True self hosting:
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| − | ** [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] Produce regular I-builds and nightly builds of p2 bundles (Kim/DJ)
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| − | ** p2 team will update across I-builds using p2 (all)
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| − | ** PDE target provisioning from bundles.txt
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| − | * Cross-platform:
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| − | ** [[Image:Progress.gif]] Build the agent for all platforms (dj)
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| − | ** [[Image:Progress.gif]] Metadata generation for all platforms (dj)
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| − | ** Be able to install to any platform/os from a single update site
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| − | * Engine:
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| − | ** [[Image:Progress.gif]] Transaction support across phases (Simon)
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| − | * Multiple forms of an artifact in a repository (Stefan/Jeff)
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| − | * Integrate metadata generation with current build update site generation (dj)
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| − | * UI (see more details at [[Equinox p2 User Interface#Milestone Plan]]): (Susan)
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| − | ** Improve workflow and info provided pre-install/update/uninstall
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| − | ** Polling for automatic updates and user prefs driving how updates are handled
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| − | ** Improved support for browsing repos (categories, filtering)
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| − | ** Admin UI shows more info in artifact repo view
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| − | ** Polish and cleanup
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| − | * Shared install (AndrewO, Tim)
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| − | * Pluggable download manager strategy (Tim)
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| − | * ECF support for pause/resume (Scott)
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| − | * ECF support for introspecting transports (throughput, latency) (Scott)
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| − | * [[Image:Progress.gif]]Review Framework admin API, and usage of Framework admin in p2 (John)
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| − | * Define 3.3/3.4 compatibility story (Pascal)
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| − | * Mechanism to query the user for data (John)
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| − | * [[Image:Progress.gif]] Replacement for Xstream (Dave)
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| − | * [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] Review Director/Engine relationship and API (Pascal)
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| − | === Questions for M3 ===
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| − | * Variables - parameters required at install time, such as port numbers
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| − | * Nested profiles - multiple products installed together but run independently
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| − | * Prerequisites
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| − | * Governor - What does the governor look like? (discussion under [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205068 Bug 205068])
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| − | * Installer - what does the installer look like?
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| − | * Branding experience for install
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| − | * Installing into the agent (customizing installer)
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| − | * [[Image:Progress.gif]] Resolver - can't backtrack, do we need a new resolver algorithm? (Pascal)
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| − | * Metadata shape
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| − | ** Uses
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| − | ** Advice (aka recommendations)
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| − | ** Signatures/authentication for metadata
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| − | * Simple configurator policy
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| − | * [[Image:Progress.gif]] Rhino: do we need to replace it? What with? (Simon)
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| − | * IU cross reference
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| − | * Staged update
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| − | * Should versions be pluggable (the current Version class does not allow to properly reason about the version of JRE)
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| − | * Multiple processes sharing the same agent data
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| − | == Future Plans ==
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| − | === M4 - December 14, 2007 ===
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| − | * API Cleanup
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| − | === M5 - February 8, 2008 ===
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| − | === Pending Items ===
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| − | If you are looking to be involved, feel free to pick any item listed below.
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| − | * Artifact repo
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| − | ** partial downloads of new jars
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| − | ** Resilience to dl failures
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| − | ** Ability to restart failed download
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| − | * Engine
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| − | ** undo/redo API
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| − | ** touchpoint API
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| − | ** define more phases and how phases are ordered, review Dave idea where everything is an operation
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| − | ** engine API
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| − | * Director / Metadata
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| − | ** Size computation: download size, installed size
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| − | ** Refactor engine/director relationship
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| − | ** fixes
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| − | ** translation
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| − | ** disable (==> uninstall but keep the metadata and artifacts)?
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| − | ** variable / prerequisites / checks
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| − | ** default selectors
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| − | ** nested profiles
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| − | ** Refine how fragments are being attached
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| − | ** Refine how operations to the engine are being constructed
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| − | * Security
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| − | ** artifact validation
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| − | ** trust
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| − | ** signature check (disabled in trusted site)
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| − | ** How to interact with user during signature check - do we need changes to ProcessingStep API
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| − | * Transports
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| − | ** proxy
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| − | ** authentication
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| − | ** https
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| − | ** socks
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| − | ** automatic retries
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| − | ** automatic picking of mirrors
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| − | ** download time estimation
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| − | ** suspend/resume
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| − | ** download in parallel
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| − | * Misc:
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| − | ** Shared install scenarios
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| − | ** Discovery mechanism for non eclipse things (JRE)
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| − | ** Make the agent dynamic
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| − | ** Scalability: review the data structure and API for scalability
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| − | ** Review the usage of rhino
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| − | ** Review the usage of xstream
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| − | * GC
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| − | ** Ability to remove metadata from the metadata cache
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| − | ** Ability to remove a plug-in from the bundle pool
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| − | * Tooling
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| − | ** Mechanism to ship the install registry, artifact reg, etc. as part of the SDK
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| − | * End user functionality (see also [[Equinox p2 User Interface]])
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| − | ** Improved way to present licenses
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| − | ** Remember accepted licenses
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| − | ** Give the ability to name what is being installed
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| − | ** Installation by drag and drop on a running eclipse
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| − | ** Automatic installation
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| − | ** Ability to update to a new version of a base and keep other plug-ins
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| − | ** Ability to install from other eclipse installs on the machine
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| − | ** Install from a click on the web page
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| − | ** Silent (headless) installation
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| − | ** Support installation even when there are errors in the configuration
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| − | * Touchpoints
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| − | ** Touchpoint data
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| − | ** Touchpoint actions
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| − | ** Support for discovering files to allow for configuration
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| − | ** Native touchpoint
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| − | *** Implement a native touchpoint
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| − | ** Java touchpoint
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| − | *** Define the relationship between java touchpoint and eclipse touchpoint
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| − | ** Rename Eclipse touchpoint to OSGi touchpoint
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| − | == Previous Plans ==
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| − | === M2 - September 21, 2007 ===
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| − | Goals:
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| − | * Updating the running profile (self update with a reasonable UI)
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| − | * Support for update / rollback in the director
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| − | * Support for transaction in the engine
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| − | Details:
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| − | * Director / metadata:
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| − | ** Implement groups and selectors
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| − | ** Refine and implement constraints descriptors
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| − | * Engine:
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| − | ** Support for transaction
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| − | * UI:
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| − | ** End user UI to install and update
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| − | ** Presentation of metadata repo content to the user
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| − | * Misc
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| − | ** Move to ECF 1.0.2
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| − | ** Support for relative paths
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| − | ** Review the usage of framework admin:
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| − | *** How are we using it?
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| − | *** Why do we use it, what does it bring?
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| − | ** Discover the JRE being used to run
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| − | * Shared install:
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| − | ** Initial implementation
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| − | * Repository:
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| − | ** Support for filtering content presented to the user
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| − | ** Make the artifact repository writable and have support for post-processing
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| − | ** Have an artifact repository implementation to read update sites
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| − | === M1 - August 2, 2007 ===
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| − | Goals:
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| − | * Operations supported: install, uninstall, update, rollback.
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| − | * Self provisioning from a small download of the agent
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| − | * The agent runs in process
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| − | Details:
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| − | * Director / metadata:
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| − | ** Implement groups and selectors
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| − | ** Define constraints descriptors
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| − | ** Refine how fragments are being attached
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| − | * Engine:
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| − | ** Define new phases and operations.
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| − | * UI:
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| − | ** Browse what's installed in a profile
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| − | ** Invoke operations
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| − | ** Browse a repository
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| − | * First run integration: ability to ship metadata / artifact repo / profile with eclipse
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| − | * Investigate shared install problems
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| − | == Legend ==
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| − | [[Image:Glass.gif]] Needs some investigation
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| − | [[Image:Progress.gif]] Patch in progress
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| − | [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] Bug fixed / Feature added
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| − | [[Category:Equinox p2|Plan]]
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