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Re: [orbit-dev] Categorize the Orbit Repo

Am 28.04.2010 21:56, schrieb David M Williams:
> 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]

Yeah, I noticed this as well. It seems that some of them a real issues
with the bundle metadata. P2 is not to blame in this case.

> 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?

That's the disadvantage of auto-categorization. If we require to list
all bundles manually in the category.xml then we could have some kind of
"guideline" which forces us to review bundle names before we add them to
a category.

>      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? :(

Yeah, it's a dialog for end users not for Orbit developers. :)

> Similarly, should we have an "All" category? So users get one list? 

+1 for ALL. Others is harder because it would have to be maintained
manually. The p2 query language does not define a query for "all IUs not
in any category".

> Is it technically possible to list them in more than one category?

Yes. Absolutely.

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

What about the following Categories for Helios:

* All Orbit Bundles
* All javax.*  Bundles
* All org.apache.*  Bundles

This is just a very limited set but leaves room for improvements. :)

-Gunnar

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