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[ecf-dev] Note from 7/18/2011 conference call
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Hi Folks,
The agenda for today's meeting was here [1].
The main items:
A. ECF 3.5.2 maintenance release...when?
Given that the Indigo 3.7.1 maintenance release is in mid Sept, I think
it's going to be necessary to have the ECF 3.5.2 release *prior* to the
Indigo 3.7.1 release rather than concurrently (because both require
releng work and there is short supply of that for us). So, I'm going to
propose that we target this date for ECF 3.5.2:
August 29, 2011
This will be a maintenance release (no API changes, no new features,
just bug fixes). If you have comments/thoughts about that day, please
say so here.
B. ECF 3.6...when...and more importantly...what?
When?
I propose that we target early->mid October 2011 for the ECF 3.6
release. This gives us some time to add things, have a release review.
Further, the release then will happen before EclipseCon Europe 2011.
What?
There are a number of idea for additions to add for 3.6...here are my
favorites:
1) Restlet provider. I've just implemented a remote services provider
based upon the popular Restlet framework (see blog posting [2]). This
allows people to define, export, and import OSGi remote services using
Restlet. It's pretty cool, I have to say...as one gets all the benefits
of using a standard protocol (http), with a standard remote services api
(OSGi remote services), with a standard remote services management (OSGi
remote services admin). Further, the implementation of the provider is
tiny and fairly simple.
2) ECF Documentation, Tutorials, Examples [3]. More needed here...of
course.
The following are ones that I can't speak for myself (i.e. work driven
by other committers)...so they may not be possible for 3.6...but I think
we should at least consider whether they make sense/could work for 3.6:
3) The Salvo Newsreader
4) Twitter provider/Tweethub improvments (+integration with Salvo and/or
other EF projects?)
5) Wave Provider (e.g. for mobile game support [4]).
6) Integrating Httpclient 4.0-based filetransfer provider contribution [5]
...and some wacky thoughts
7) XMPP server based upon OpenFire
8) Integration with Google+ (e.g. circles)
Other ideas that people have had, have, want to have. Note that in
general, though, contributions are going to be necessary to do things,
as resources (time) are currently very limited (for me...and for others
that I know about).
Thanks,
Scott
[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_Conference_Call_7.18.2011
[2]
http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2011/07/restlet-for-osgi-remote-services.html
[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329124
[4] http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-indigo-highlights-ecf
[5] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251740
[6] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=235844