Meeting
Minutes
- Topic:
Common / Shared Collaboration Perspective
- Date:
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
- Time:
2:00 PM EDT
- Goal:
Determine if a common / shared collaboration perspective should be
established for use by several Technology projects.
Attendees
- Dennis
O'Flynn (Corona)
- Glenn
Everitt (Corona)
- Scott
Lewis (ECF)
- Brian
Carroll (ALF)
- Carlos
Sanchez (Kepler)
Minutes
Overview
- Several
Technology (top-level) projects have exemplary views that provide
tools/apps that enable collaboration.
- Should
these tools, provided by different projects, share a common perspective to
deliver a greater collaboration value?
Tools Services Framework
(Corona)
- Corona’s
core technologies provide (1) an Eclipse server-side platform, and (2)
collaboration framework. These technologies do not provide any UI
views.
- Corona’s
exemplary implementation focus on providing a collaboration application for
enabling a team of Eclipse IDE developers into a “workgroup”.
- Corona’s
stance is that its UI views are better suited to extend the value of
existing perspectives since collaboration needs a context
- Corona’s
view will extend existing perspectives (e.g. Java, Plugin, Debug).
- Corona will
provide a “collaboration” perspective to group its exemplary
implementation UI views to provide an initial out-of-box experience.
Eclipse Communication
Framework (ECF)
- ECF
provides a framework for communications. The core framework does not
provide any UI views.
- However
there are several sample communication applications (e.g. chat, shared
editors) that do provide some collaboration value
- ECF
does provide a “communications” perspective to group its
sample apps
Application Lifecycle
Framework (ALF)
- ALF
is considering implementing an Eclipse plug-in to provide a view to
monitor the lifecycle process via BPEL.
- This
view could utilize a common “collaboration” perspective.
Recommendation
- A
common / shared collaboration perspective would be useful to consolidate
views from different projects
- This
perspective should not be owned by any one project so that it can stay
independent
- Could
Orbit (or an Eclipse Commons project) provide the plugin for implementing
the “collaboration” perspective?
- Should
it be owned by the Technology top-level (or Platform)?
- Work
with the Technology PMC to establish “collaboration”
perspective
- After
Europa is released, we can renew dialog on this topic and begin working
towards a solution.
Open Issues
- How
would collaboration views be provided via Update Manager?
- Is
there any impact to how features would be provided?
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