Re: [platform-vision] Platform Vision meeting, April 22/2015

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That would be awesome.

Wayne

On 21/04/15 12:08 PM, Lars Vogel wrote:

Hi,

we (vogella Gmbh) sit tomorrow together with Etienne from Gradleware looking at the Gradle tooling for Eclipse. Is it OK that Etienne joins the call? He may be able to give insights.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a call scheduled for tomorrow at 11 AM EDT.

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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.

We've the UX experts on the Oomph Installer. Eike and--with help from Yatta--put some serious UX work into the installer. Eike presented it to the UX folks last week. I am concerned that some of the the project descriptions (e.g. targets) in the Oomph repository have gotten stale. Keeping these up to date is a challenge that we (collectively) 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 have code. The Planning Council has rejected their inclusion in Mars. We've engaged to Tools PMC to attempt an appeal. Any ideas you  might have are welcome.

I'd like to talk a bit about the composition of the "Eclipse Project" Marketplace.

Wayne

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