| [epp-dev] FW: EPP content wizard |
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Sigh, this is a resend as the
original did not seem to get through… Jeff From: Jeff McAffer
[mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx] I was in Germany last week for JAX and Eclipse Forum
Europe. While there a group of people got talking about Eclipse,
Ganymede, EPP, p2, etc and end user experiences in getting Eclipse. One
of the ideas that surfaced was creating a RAP-based wizard that would allow
people to select a package and then refine the contents of the package.
After completing the wizard users would get a p2-based installer that would
install the profile they just described. This seemed like a really cool direction so Jordi Lopez and
I spent a bit of time talking about if this could work, how it would work
etc. It seemed feasible so we started to scratch together some code to
actually do it. That has progressed but is not demo-able yet. We had a brief discussion with Markus and he rightly
suggested that we surface the idea to the EPP community before it goes much
further. So, we can get into more technical detail etc but first, 1)
Is this something in which the EPP community is
interested? 2)
If so, where/how should the work be done? I am
volunteering Code 9 to do the p2 side of things and Jordi/Innoopract is game
for the RAP side. The value in doing this are multi-fold: -
Users should get a better experience when they need
more than just one of the canned packages -
Projects that are not part of one of the packages get
more exposure by being offered as part of the wizard -
This is a great demo for Eclipse technology such as
RAP, Equinox on the server, p2, … I understand that flavors of this topic have been discussed
here before and apologize if this is a rehashing and to be absolutely clear,
EPP should still offer the download zips. The wizard idea would just
augment the story. If it turns out not to work, we do not need to make it
visible. In any event, the idea of a wizard for selecting content is,
IMHO, particularly compelling and I think we have a real shot at making it
happen. What do you think? Jeff |