Equinox/p2/Helios/Plan

This page lays out milestone plans for the development of Equinox p2 in the Eclipse Helios release (aka the Eclipse Platform version 3.6).

• For a high level feature plan, see Equinox/p2/Galileo/Features.
• For a more detailed view of the UI plan, see Equinox p2 UI Plan.

Current Plan: M1- August 7, 2009

• Decompression
• Bug triage, community assistance
• Critical bug fixes
• Galileo SR1 (3.5.1) fixes

Future Plans

M2 - September 18th, 2009

• Planning
• Galileo SR1 (3.5.1) fixes

M7 - April 30, 2010 - Feature Freeze

• Polish items
• Performance work
• UI Accessibility
• Testing and test framework improvements
• Release train build/repository assistance

3.6 items left

• Transport
  • Better explanation of error [1]
  • Improved cancellability [2]

• Artifact repository
  • Robustness in reading and writing.
  • Mirroring application... ppl still have problems
  • Concurrency issues when reading and writing (one process)

• Eclipse touchpoint
  • Improve detection for conflicting arguments

• Native touchpoint
  • Improve detection for conflicting arguments

• Engine
  • Reacting to change of property
  • GC of profile registry

• Update manager
  • Provide replacement constructs for UM
  • Review problems connecting to legacy update sites

• Publisher / generator
  • Get rid of the generator bundle to the benefit of the publisher

• Director application
  • Make it easier to do a set of operations (do we need a "response file")
  • Provide the ability to set properties at install time

• Mirror app
  • Need to make the artifact repository more robust

• UI
  • Ability to define/install/uninstall user-named groups of IU's
  • Fast-path install scenarios (gestures for auto-install)
  • Show licenses by license instead of by IU
  • Showing non-greedy optional dependencies for selection

• Misc
  • Review the support for UNC paths [3]

Past Releases

• p2 Galileo Milestone Plan
• p2 Ganymede Milestone Plan

Legend

Needs some investigation

Work in progress

Bug fixed / Feature added