Equinox/p2/Helios/Plan

This page lays out milestone plans for the development of Equinox p2 in the Eclipse Helios release (aka the Eclipse Platform version 3.6).

• For a high level feature plan, see Equinox/p2/Galileo/Features.
• For a more detailed view of the UI plan, see Equinox p2 UI Plan.

Current Plan: M6 - March 12th, 2010 - API Freeze

• API, this must be the #1 priority
  • Metadata package review and changes (Pascal / Thomas)
    • Filter on IRequirement https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=299507
    • Provided capabilities
    • API for IUPatches
    • Metadata factory https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=301083
  • Define the API for the director (Pascal / John)
    • ProvisioningContext / handling of repo (Susan)
  • Query vs p2QL overlap (Ian / Thomas)
  • Translation Support (John / Thomas) https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298333

• License identification work (DJ / John) --> This has been deferred.
  • Foundation to define license URI and update the core to support for license URI
  • UI work to verify that everything is happening properly
  • Publisher / PDE

• Discovery UI
  • Mylyn metadata work (Steffen / Pascal)
  • Mylyn UI work (Steffen)

• Planner
  • Work on the encoding of conditional installation (Daniel / Pascal)

• Misc
  • Remove references to the services - 299987 (John / Thomas)
  • Serialization to support for new expression (Thomas)
  • Improve download strategies for mirror (Thomas)

Future Plans

M7 - April 30, 2010 - Feature Freeze

• Polish items
• Performance work
• UI Accessibility
• Testing and test framework improvements
• Release train build/repository assistance

Helios items left

• Eclipse touchpoint
  • Improve detection for conflicting arguments

• Native touchpoint
  • Improve detection for conflicting arguments

• Engine
  • Reacting to change of property
  • Support for unicodes in actions
  • Consistent handling of @artifacts
  • Pluggable phases

• Publisher / generator
  • Get rid of the generator bundle to the benefit of the publisher

• Director application
  • Make it easier to do a set of operations (do we need a "response file"), see relationship with installer
  • Provide the ability to set properties at install time

• UI
  • Ability to define/install/uninstall user-named groups of IU's
  • Fast-path install scenarios (gestures for auto-install)
  • Showing non-greedy optional dependencies for selection

• Planner
  • Explore addition of negation and or
  • Explore a way to remove the need of optional installation for patches
  • Explore the addition of new types of requirements and capabilities
  • Explore a way to provide more stability when uninstalling or installing
  • Automatic discovery of best update
  • Improve speed of explanation

• Repository
  • Make the query mechanism more lazy
  • Persistence scalability
  • Validation facility
  • Improve repository tools (Repo2Runnable, Mirroring, etc.)

• General
  • Define API
  • Improve general flexibility of p2
    • Make the resolver standalone
    • Have several instances of p2 run at the same time in the same VM
  • Make p2 run on other frameworks

• Improve the installer
• Explore another to categorize content

Previous Plans

M5 - January 29th, 2010 - Major Feature Freeze

• Define API (All)
• Have several instances of p2 run at the same time in the same VM (John / Pascal / Henrik)
• Planner improvements

M4 - December 11, 2009

• Define API (All)
• Have several instances of p2 run at the same time in the same VM (John)
• Planner improvements
• Support for install filters on features

M3 - October 30, 2009

• Define API (All)
  • First step is to gather API feedback (Pascal)
  • Identify what we want to make API (All)
    • We will first focus on the API for Actions and Touchpoints, investigate the creation of a higher level API like the actions provided in UI, and review the rest.
• Make p2 run on other frameworks (DJ)
• Have several instances of p2 run at the same time in the same VM - see Equinox/p2/Multiple Agents (John / Pascal)
• Get rid of the generator bundle to the benefit of the publisher (Andrew / Ian)
• Create a repository validation facility (Ian)
• Engine work (Simon)
• Improve repository tools (Repo2Runnable, Mirroring, etc.) (Andrew)
  • Remove IU
  • Slicing option to always pick the highest version
  • Slicing option on the repo2Runnable
• Polishing server side provisioning

M2 - September 18th, 2009

• Planning
• Galileo SR1 (3.5.1) fixes

M1- August 7, 2009

• Decompression
• Bug triage, community assistance
• Critical bug fixes
• Galileo SR1 (3.5.1) fixes
• Show licenses by license instead of by IU

Past Releases

• p2 Galileo Milestone Plan
• p2 Ganymede Milestone Plan

Legend

Needs some investigation

Work in progress

Bug fixed / Feature added