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

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm in another call at this time.

Tom

On 01.04.15 15:17, Wayne Beaton wrote:
> When I sent this note out last week, I meant our next regularly
> scheduled meeting which is next Wednesday.
> 
> Having said that, if you're available and keen to chat to day, let us
> know and I'll make it happen.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 25/03/15 11:06 AM, Wayne Beaton wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>
> 
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