On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please see my comments below. > > Thanks, > Raymond > > From: Simon Laws > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Review and merge of trunk and equinox branch changes, was - > Re: [PROPOSAL] A staged approach to create the OASIS development stream in > trunk > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nice summary of the differences. I suggest that we add this list to a wiki > page to track the merging efforts. I can start to comment on the individual > modules on the wiki as soon as it appears. > > Thanks, > Raymond > > ...snip > > Ok Raymond I can do that. I'd like to keep as much of the conversation and > progress statements on the list but I don't mind summarizing on the wiki and > then repeating the summary info here for all to see. I'll make a page and > post again. > > <rfeng>Thanks. The main purpose for the suggested wiki page is to track > progress of the merge in a collaborative way.</rfeng> > > More generally the merge looks doable to me. Although I do want to > understand the more complex modules that I've mentioned. So we could start > by clearing the modules that are already in trunk/modules to > /contrib/modules as has already been mentioned and bring back in the minimum > 40ish modules (combining the changes from the equinox branch with the > current state of trunk) until we get the calculator-equinox working. > > +1. > > If I understand correctly the people who've been working on the equinox > branch are using new tooling modules also so any that are required will have > to be added in (I haven't tried any of the Eclipse integration in the branch > I just ran the mvn build, hence my comments on my previous post). It would > be good to get a description about what any new modules are individually > responsible for also so that I can tie their function to the features on > your OSGi enablement page ( > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYWIKI/OSGi+Enablement+for+Tuscany+Runtime > ). > > <rfeng>I can add some description of the tools to the wiki</rfeng> > > Would also be good to get a tutorial of how you use Eclipse in this > context, e.g. precisely what steps do you go through to configure, load, > edit and debug modules. Having said that I'm not ready to look at that just > yet so not an emergeny. I anticipate that I can just carry on using the > development approach I'm familiar with from the existing trunk while looking > at the calcualtor-equinox bring up. > > I think as we move forward it would be good to move samples and itests to > contrib also so that we have a clear view of what works. Thoughts? > > <rfeng>+1. I would like to merge and bring up some of the samples and > itests over time along with the process for the modules.</rfeng> > > > I can start to look at doing some of the merging. Is there anyone who can > help out? > > Simon > Ok, I put the summary text up on a wiki page ( http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYWIKI/Equinox+Branch+Merge). No special formatting and in alphabetical order so you may need to refer back tho this thread to find the ones I had specific questions. Simon
