Re: [orbit-dev] Categorize the Orbit Repo

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is really a great addition, thanks
Gunnar!  

Some questions and requests and comments,
though. 

First, for Orbit committers, one of
the big uses of this, we anticipate, as to add these third-party bundles
to a developers "target platform", as a software repository site,
so you might look at and test from that perspective. In theory, users should
be able to select many, or a few, to compile and run against.  "Installing"
them is a whole separate task  ... and since few, if any, provide
IDE function per se, developers 
should not have to "install"
too many. 

As you sanity check, be sure to check
off the "show latest version only" checkbox, 

A. You'll see several cases of "Bundle_name"
showing up instead of the actual bundle name ... problem with properties,
or something?
     [Oh, after writing
the above, I think part of this problem is bug 309566 ... so, might be
good to check, still, but many cases may actually be correct. 
     https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=309566]

B. You may want to see if your bundles
are well named. I think most of them are ... but in the past, it didn't
matter much ... but now users may be looking for something specific. Can
they find it? 
     Note, you can see
a bundle's ID by selecting "properties".  [Anyone know why
there's not an option to display those in a column? :( 

More generally, Gunnar or other P2 experts,
... I don't think all are listed, right ... should we have an "Other"
category to make sure there is a spot for everything? 
Similarly, should we have an "All"
category? So users get one list? Is it technically possible to list them
in more than one category? 

And, remember, our "RC1 build"
is just about a week away, so there's not much time left to improve this
type of thing. 

Much thanks,

From:	Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	Orbit Developer discussion <orbit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	04/28/2010 03:30 AM
Subject:	[orbit-dev] Categorize the Orbit Repo
Sent by:	orbit-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi Orbitters,

We recently started added categories to the p2 repositories produced by
the Orbit builder. I'm not very creative but I had to came up with an
initial set of categories to ensure that the plumbing is working.

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/committers/drops/I20100428041519/updateSite/

If anyone has some great suggestions for categories please post them
here (or at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=274837).

The categories are managed in a "category.xml". The file is located
in
the releng project next to the map file. Patches are welcome. :)
However, you currently can't use the PDE Categories editor because it
doesn't support the advanced IU querying capabilities we use to support
proper categorization of binary as well as produced source bundles.

Thanks,
Gunnar
                
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Gunnar Wagenknecht
gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://wagenknecht.org/
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