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Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox->Bundles component is getting crowded

What is the point of the proposed change?  Tom's mail suggests we 
subdivide bundles. But in what way? To organize commit rights or bugs in 
bugzilla? Or both? I guess that is what is not clear. Clarity here will 
help us evaluate choices. It seems we can easily have M bugzilla 
components and N commit right sets with M >=N. Right now (for bundles) M 
and N both equal 1. Are we looking to increase M or N or both?
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yes but under the new plan you pointed out, the commit rights will be 
managed by groups and groups will have a 1:1 relationship to components 
and components will have associated leads, bugzilla entries, websites, ... 
 This is alot of infrastructure to put in place for each bundle. 

We did "bundles" originally because we could not come up with any 
reasonable partitioning of the space.  To date we have gotten away with it 
because a) the number of bundles in there was relatively low and b) many 
have very little activity.  As Tom points out, this is changing.  Our 
solution space seem to be N bundles => 1 group, N groups or M groups where 
1 < M < N.  Unfortunately, it is still not clear that there is a 
reasonable grouping so while (at least to me) M groups feels like a good 
spot, it will be challenging.  Here are some thoughts 
- "framework" = the framework.  This stays unchanged 
- "standard" = bundles that implement OSGi standard services 
- "p2" 
- "security" = if needed 
- "bundles" = catch all for things that don't fit   

This is just a stake in the ground. 

Jeff 



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Since "component" is a confusing term, I should clarify my comments on 
this.  I like the idea of being more fine-grained with Unix groups (CVS 
commit rights), because I think it encourages new committers. If someone 
joins the community with a strong interest in a narrow area (such as 
security or provisioning), but isn't interested in the rest of the 
framework, they could quickly earn commit rights in that area, without 
having to give them write access to other code they aren't qualified to 
maintain (or aren't interested in maintaining).  On the question of 
bugzilla components, I don't particularly care whether we have one or ten 
- these are fairly easy to change over time as the need arises. 

John 


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I agree one component per bundle is probably overkill.  However, it's not 
necessarily true that the CVS commit groups match 1-1 with Bugzilla 
groups. While it's often convenient to do it this way, it's not a 
constraint that we need to conform to.  I should also add that the EMO has 
a plan under consideration for standardizing the group structure for Unix 
groups, and part of this work is to facilitate election across multiple 
groups (see item 6 in 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=77092).  Essentially, 
simultaneously nominating an individual for N groups would only require a 
single election, and a single vote per committer. Just some things to 
consider... 


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There are two extreme positions to take. Lump a large number of loosely 
related deliverables under one component or create a separate component 
for each and every deliverable. I'm not sure I favor the latter extreme. 
Currently the Equinox download page allows you to download each bundle 
individually so each bundle is a separate downloadable item. Creating a 
separate component for each and every bundle in Equinox may prove to be 
too much overhead. It is my understanding that in Eclipse typically every 
bugzilla component has its own set of commit rights in CVS. If we have a 
very high number of components then we will be holding a very large number 
of committer elections to get all the committers the access they need :-)

I think we a balance and create components as we see fit to split up the 
different work areas in Equinox instead of creating a component for every 
bundle.

Tom



BJ Hargrave---09/12/2007 12:31:35 PM---It would probably be best if each 
separately downloadable item had its own 
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It would probably be best if each separately downloadable item had its own 

component against which people could file bugs.
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For the security stuff I was referring to the security-specific bundles 
like login (JAAS integration etc.)

You are right there is a lot of cross-cutting concerns with the other 
security related work that will not really fit into any one component.

Tom



John Arthorne ---09/12/2007 11:25:42 AM---Creating a new component for p2 
definitely makes sense to me. I don't know much about the security work, 
but that may be diffi

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Creating a new component for p2 definitely makes sense to me. I don't know 

much about the security work, but that may be difficult to partition into 
its own component because it's an inherently cross-cutting concern. If 
there end up being a number of security-specific bundles, it may make 
sense. 

Generally speaking, I think more components is a good thing. It's a great 
way to bring in new committers who may not be able to make the large 
commitment needed to contribute across a large part of Equinox. 

John 


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The Equinox project continues to grow with new components and new 
contributes being added. Thanks everyone!!

As new contributions are graduated into Equinox proper we need to place 
them under one of the existing components. Currently we have the 
"Framework" and "Bundles" components for Equinox proper in bugzilla/cvs. A 

large majority of the new contributions will fall into the "Bundles" 
component. For example, we have a few work areas in the equinox incubator 
which are very active (e.g. p2, security etc). Once this work graduates it 

will likely to be placed into the generic "Bundles" component. This will 
make an already crowded component even more crowded. 

Should we consider creating a more diverse set of components for the work 
which is graduated into Equinox? I think the p2 and security work will 
deserve their own component when they graduate. Thoughts?

Tom
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