| RE: [epp-dev] FW: EPP content wizard |
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I think it is a great idea and it would be
great to see for Ganymede. Of course the risk is that it doesn’t
work but I think we can mitigate the risk by 1) having awesome developers work
on it, and 2) making sure it is optional, so we can bring it down if it doesn’t
work. What I would suggest is that on the new
package site we add a ‘customize’ button. This would allow
each package to be customized; the starting point can be the package contents
but then the user can add or delete the contents using the wizard. The
one thing I would like to see part of all installs is the UDC component. Btw, where would this code reside? Do
we need to put this through the IP process? Ian From:
epp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:epp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff McAffer Sigh, this is a
resend as the original did not seem to get through… Jeff From: Jeff
McAffer [mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx] I was in 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 |