[higgins-dev] Agenda for Higgins Developers call on Thursday, February 1

[Paul Trevithick <ptrevithick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Agenda for Higgins Developers call on Thursday, February 19

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Agenda
1. [Brian] 1.1M6 - targeted for February 27

• See  http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_1.1M6  for current list                   
• 1.1 Milestone  planning http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_1.1_Plan        
  

2. [Brian, Alexander, Andy] Selector Architecture Harmonization

• Phase I update - held working call on 2/16.
• Andy has developed two skeletal card store providers.
• Next working call on 2/23.      
• See updated Card Store Architecture [1]
  

3.  [Paul] RCP Selector for Higgins 1.1?

• Mary: Interest to do demo for EclipseCON
• Need new solutions page, build instructions
• Need to build a connector for the Higgins Selector Switch
• Need to switch it to using the standard HBX
  

4.  [Paul]  “Embedded” RCP Selector?

• Frank Gerhardt on the list on Tuesday was discussing his desire for an “embedded” RCP selector
• Paul wrote: Such a ... solution with the selector code running in the same VM as the “client” code has some severe security challenges. It would be trivial for malicious Eclipse plug-ins to attack the card store, emulate the user, etc. Of course by its very nature this solution would only be used in a this special situation where you (a) had high trust in the other “peer” plug-ins running in the same VM+RCP platform and (b) the only cards that would be stored would be those for use with these surrounding plug-ins.
• Paul added: Ideally the user would have a configuration choice to either (a) invoke the embedded selector [as you describe above] or (b) invoke a general purpose “external” selector via the “Higgins Selector Switch.” Note that this external selector might be the RCP selector, the AIR selector, the Cocoa selector or GTK selector.
  

5.  [Mary] Swordfish

• Have been approached by German Company that is using our STS and has implemented renew functionality in the Higgins STS via an extension.  
• They are offering to deliver a Swordfish binding.
• Have invited them to talk on future dev call.
  

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Selector_Architecture_Harmonization#Synchronizing_Card_Store_.28Component_Set.29