Re: [platform-vision] Developer's Platform Vision Meeting, March 25 at 1

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne

Sorry about that. I had the meeting
created in my time zone and this did not reflect your summertime change.

Dani



From:      
 Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 platform-vision@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:      
 25.03.2015 16:06
Subject:    
   Re: [platform-vision]
Developer's Platform Vision Meeting, March 25 at 11:00 ET
Sent by:    
   platform-vision-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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I spent a lonely five minutes waiting for the call
to start...

Let's defer until next week. I'll send out a meeting notice.

Wayne

On 25/03/15 09:01 AM, Wayne Beaton wrote:
> Today, I'd like to talk about some of the separate streams of 
> development that we have going right now.
>
> -- 
> Phone numbers
>
> North America 1-866-569-4992
> Germany 49-692-2224-6059
> France 33-(0)-17-070-8535
> UK 0800-033-7806
> Switzerland 41-44-580-2115
> Sweden 46-85-063-8386
> Italy 003-902-3604-8268
>
> Then enter the participant conference extension: 430, then enter pin
4718
> Alternatively, SIP clients can call 430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, then
> enter pin 4718
> -- 
>
> The Eclipse Foundation has engaged with UX experts to review the 
> initial user experience with Eclipse. This includes the website, 
> download, and installation process. Ideally, we'd like to look at
the 
> Welcome page as well, but I'm pretty sure that we don't have the 
> resources right now to actually implement any changes.
>
> Pascal is working on code changes and tests to various parts of 
> Eclipse (p2, launcher, tycho) including changing the Mac layout and
> packaging as a .dmg file. It would be great if Pascal can elaborate
on 
> the call.
>
> I need to engage the UX experts on the Oomph Installer. At this point,
> I don't believe that there have been any significant changes in Oomph.
> I am concerned that some of the the project descriptions (e.g. 
> targets) have gotten stale. Keeping these up to date is a challenge
> that we need to address.
>
> The "profiles" work that we've been investigating is an
extension to 
> the Oomph notion of packages and configurations. A profile is a higher
> level concept that combines the package definition with the workspace
> configuration. The idea is to make it possible for users to snapshot
> and share their profiles. This also includes the ability to capture
> and share preferences. I'm not happy with the term "profile"
as it 
> suggests personal information (e.g. Facebook profile), but we haven't
> come up with an alternative. We've decided to defer profiles, as there
> just isn't enough time for Mars.
>
> Buildship (Gradle) CQs have been created and we're waiting on project
> code. I have expected that "any day now" for about two weeks.
I remain 
> cautiously optimistic that we'll see the code soon and get builds
into 
> Mars shortly.
>
> Other ongoing work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>

-- 
Wayne Beaton
@waynebeaton
The Eclipse Foundation
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