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

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne

> Everybody that
is actively participating in this group is either on the AC or should be.

Wayne, I'm not.

Dani



From:      
 Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
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Date:      
 01.05.2015 21:29
Subject:    
   Re: [platform-vision]
Platform Vision meeting, April 22/2015
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I'm thinking that the need for the Platform Vision group
to meet on a bi-weekly basis has passed. 

I believe that everything that we've been talking about lately is appropriate
for a more general audience, e.g. the Architecture Council.

Everybody that is actively participating in this group is either on the
AC or should be.

Is there any objection to suspending our biweekly call in favour of adding
content to the monthly AC call?

Wayne

On 21/04/15 11:52 AM, Wayne Beaton 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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