Aperi Development Status Meeting 11/05/07

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Attendees:

IBM (Chris King, Dave Wolfe, Tom Guinane, Hans Lin, Steven Bennett, Todd Singleton, Russ Warren)

Minutes:

• Project Leader Notes:
  • Third Party Contribution Questionnaires
    • Tracking file
    • No changes from last week. Tom will engage with the Eclispe legal team to try and understand the timing on the Derby and CIM Client requests.
  • Aperi R0.4 Open Defects -
    • by priority & severity
    • 205850 cri P1 Wind dwolfe@us.ibm.com NEW Unable to create volume for DS8000 & ESS storage subsystems
      • Dave working on that this week
    • 207882 cri P1 Linu toddsing@us.ibm.com ASSI The derby.sh file created by Aperi GUI installer for Linux platform had windows notations
      • 24 testcases blocked. Todd has a workaround – Hans to apply and workaround.
    • 199467 nor P1 Wind guinane@us.ibm.com ASSI Unable to add CIMOM agent accepting 'any' uid/pw
      • Tom working with Eclipse
    • 208708 cri P3 Linu dwolfe@us.ibm.com NEW Agent can't scan SCSI disks on recent Linux version
      • NEW bug
    • 199805 maj P3 Wind dwolfe@us.ibm.com NEW closing tab that contains classic view and can't reopen it
    • 208697 maj P3 Linu toddsing@us.ibm.com NEW /etc/Tivoli/TSRM/lock not created by installer for agent only install
      • NEW bug
  • Aperi Total Open Defects - by priority & severity
  • Road map planning
    • Approved Road map
  • Aperi Survey – initial results for review:
    • Aperi Survey Feedback Questions 1-7
    • Aperi Survey Feedback Question 8
    • Agreement among team to close survey. We have had 10 responses to date.
    • Russ and Tom to work up a summary and will put out on the blog.
  • Java level - We have had problems with Aperi and the SAN Simulator running with the Java 1.6 runtime.
    • Should we limit Java 1.5 in our installation scripts?
    • How about adding a line item to support Java 1.6 in Aperi Release 0.5?
    • Suggestions to address:
      • Improve documentation. Move Java 1.5 up in installation process in big bold letters. Chris will handle.
      • Modify installer to check for 1.5 level – Tom to open up buzgulla

• Release Engineer Notes (Todd):
  • Build status
    • New build out this morning for SRM
  • SAN Simulator contribution
    • Trying to get out in November – running into issues.
    • Propose to make the SAN Simulator authors as committers
    • Also have committers that have not participated.
    • Need to review committer list and address.

• Aperi Downloads:
  • Latest stats
  • Aperi webinar 212 views

• Development items/issues:
  • None this week.

• IDVT:
  • Test Status
  • Hans went through the charts.
  • Tom to move Defect review to this agenda location.

• ID:
  • Online help issue: Eclipse based or Java help based?
    • Chris doc plan - needs approval – Tom to approve
    • Install instructions and release notes out today

• Project Schedule:
  • Latest Schedule. Changes made in the schedule.

• Action Items:

Item	Owner	Target	Status
Obtain two mentors	Tom	11/30/07	Per new development process rules, we need to obtain two project mentors. Harm Sluiman is one. Tom is searching for additional candidate.
Aperi Forum	Tom	11/13/07	Suggested by Javier. Investigate setting up forums for Aperi communication. Looked into freepowerboards.com Friendly, easy to use, familiar to more forum users. Also includes a chat tool. Set up a sample forum http://www.freepowerboards.com/dhiwa/ Take a look and provide feedback. Checking out Eclipse IRC again
Document Control	Tom	11/15/07	Write up text for Aperi document control.
Lessons Learned Follow-up	Tom	11/9/07	Put results of Lessons Learned meeting for R0.3 into a table on the wiki with corresponding action items
cvs download statistics	Tom	11/06/07	Investigate if we can get any numbers for our source code downloads.

• Open Forum:
• Other:
  • Next Meeting - 11/12/07
  • Management Developers Conference
  • Eclipse DemoCamp
    • Palo Alto - DLA Piper
    • Mountain View – Google
    • No takers
  • EclipseCon 2008
    • EclipseCon 2008 will be held March 17-20 in Santa Clara, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org
    • It is now time to submit talks or tutorials for EclipseCon 2008. The entire Eclipse community is invited to submit ideas for tutorials, long talks, short talks, posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions. The EclipseCon program committee has identified different topic areas or categories for submissions, including business topics, C/C++, Data Tooling, Java, Mobile and Embedded, Modeling, OSGi, RCP, Reporting, SOA, Test and Performance, Web Tools and Industry Verticals. The deadline for tutorial and talk submissions is November 19, 2007.
    • Request from Bjorn:
      • Aperi Team, As the Emerging Technologies sub-chair for the EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee, I'd like to invite you to submit a couple short talk proposals. As you know, there are fewer slots than interesting topics around Eclipse but we do have a good selection of short talk slot - I've set aside two short talk slots for you all, if you want them.
      • Please be aware of the hard-stop November 19th submission deadline, as explained in the submission instructions.
      • - Bjorn
    • Important Dates:
      • November 19th - Submission deadline; all proposals must be in.
      • December 10th - Tutorials, Long Talks, and Short Talks chosen.
      • January 19th - Submissions open for posters and BOFs
    • Ramani is planning to submit a short talk proposal titled "Storage Area Network Management Simulation" based on SAN Simulator.
    • Tom to submit short talk on Aperi Storage Management project – Hold for any new technology we want to discuss or fall back to an overview of project to get folks to go to the web site.
    • Tom to respond to Bjorn