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Architecture Council/Meetings/December 9 2010
| Meeting Title: | Architecture Council Monthly Meeting |
| Date & Time: | Thursday December 9, 2010 at 1600 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change HTML |  iCal
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Contents
Attendees
All AC Members are invited.
- PMC Reps please confirm attendance or list your delegate below. Every PMC is required to name a primary and backup delegate, and to ensure that one delegate attends the meeting.
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| DTP: | Brian Payton | Linda Chan |
| Eclipse: | |
John Arthorne Boris Bokowski |
| Modeling: | |
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| RT: | Jeff McAffer | |
| STP: | |
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| Technology: | |
Wayne Beaton |
| Tools: | Doug Schaefer | |
| TPTP: | Jonathan West | |
| WTP: | |
Neil Hauge |
- Signed-up: John Arthorne, Wayne Beaton, Boris Bokowski, Linda Chan, Doug Clarke, Neil Hauge, Kenn Hussey, Jeff McAffer, Kim Moir, Martin O, Pascal Rapicault, Brian Payton, Doug Schaefer, Jonathan West, David Williams
- Regrets: Oliver Cole (standing conflict), Wenfeng Li (standing conflict), Andrew Overholt (sabbatical), Darin Wright (conflict), Tom Watson (conflict), Gunnar Wagenknecht, Tom Schindl (Travelling)
- No-Show: Chris Aniszczyk, Nick Boldt, Cédric Brun, Dave Carver, Eugene Chan, Tim deBoer, Oisin Hurley, Mik Kersten, Markus Knauer, Bernd Kolb, Ed Merks, Mike Milinkovich, Mary Ruddy, Michael Scharf, Darin Swanson, Antoine Toulme, Mike Wilson, Oliver Wolf, Gary Xue
Agenda / Notes
- Feel free to edit, but not during the call!
Review of Last Meeting
- Architecture Council/Meetings/November 11 2010
- (old) Antoine / Dave C bug 316642 Requirements Wiki for build systems
- Nick linked the Google Doc spreadsheet, Martin in touch with Henrik
- Still open items moved to #Action Items
New Topics
- Welcome Pascal Rapicault to the council as Strategic Member representative for Sonatype
Naming conventions for p2 repos
- Pascal's bug 331385 naming conventions for p2 Repos
- Need better ways for Eclipse stuff to be consumed - coalesce all repos into a single page
- Might need more Fields (multiple Repo's per project)
- Might need data pre-filled for new projects (release, milestone, I-builds, ...)
- Wayne would like some discussion within a diverse group of people ("working group") - need a definitive suggestion of what the items should look like
- AI Pascal write a concrete proposal to discuss on the bug
Maven at Eclipse
- bug 283745 Maven @ Eclipse progress, workinggroup? (Along with bug 288644 naming)
- Discussion stalled, couple interested parties, but no leadership
- Wayne feels this is a great opportunity for the AC
- Pascal feels like there's 2 things being asked: (a) convert Release train repo into a Maven repo;
- Do a first simple approach and see whether people want more; for Maven Central, there's a lot of Requirements that cannot be filled automatically
- Some concept disconnect - eg Maven explicit versions for reproducability, vs Eclipse/p2 version ranges
- --> in Eclipse, a reproducable build is a function of products + repo-list
- Pascal proposes locking up ranges
- David W: b3 aggregator can produce hybrid repo, but just on build.e.o and never promoted
- Some problems were detected, no owner, thus stalled
- Pascal would only promote pieces (to Central) - each component to check what could be used outside an OSGi container
- AI David to close the "mechanical bug" (bug 312656)
- Community wants released stuff easily consumable; get that by manually importing pieces into their own private repos
- Could we enable the Community of people who import stuff to share their efforts?
News from the EMO
- News from the Board, EMO and Councils
- Had some project terminations - DSDP needs some actual mechanics (archival) done
- STP in the process of terminating
- Mylyn restructuring progressing very well tough at a very measured pace
- TPTP intends to archive after Helios Winter SR .. some other project might absorb pieces
- Trend .. still getting new projects in, healthy project landscape, no concern for now
e4 - current state of affairs
Injection Discussions
- John A - some interesting e4 discussions about Injection
- how to handle multiple injection frameworks within the same application, e.g. Google Guice vs Eclipse 4.0
- who owns the injection, how to avoid frameworks stepping on each other
- bug 331235
- bug 330865
- bug 330866
Eclipse 4.1 status
- Eclipse 4.1 status
- Eric Moffat requested bug 330957 community testing and feedback - some results but underwhelming, only few projects on Eclipse 4.1 for now
- Pascal: Community still unsure about how it fits in the global picture - still an EAR (Early Adopter Release)
- Boris: Focusing on other Eclipse projects for now because projects need dependencies to work
- Martin: might be some small things making perception, eg splashscreen, make downloads more easily findable
- New e4 Work area for generalizing JDT for non-Java VM languages
- OT/J, AspectJ, Groovy/Eclipse, and bunch of JDT committers
Old Topics
- bug 324125 architecture diagrams - 2006 version - relationship to e4 ?
- Build systems requirements - Antoine, Dave C
- Martin in touch with Nick and Henrik
- IP Logs - Martin and Wayne - project woolsey exists and open for community, Wayne hopes get soemthing downloadable by Christmas
- Allow projects to file bugs which list collections of libraries that are used for testing (and mark these collectively as exemt prereqs)
- Couldn't distribute those libs or put them in scm, but could have them on the build server
- Allow projects to file bugs which list collections of libraries that are used for testing (and mark these collectively as exemt prereqs)
We need to reduce our bug backlog, by actually coming to a common resolution on some. Here are the most recent ones:
- DaveC would like to discuss New Committer Guidelines; Scrum / Agile techniques
- bug 285074 - Dave Carver - Hudsonbuilder and write access to the cvs / svn repo
- bug 288393 - Denis - Bugzilla Best Practices
- AC Bugzilla backlog
- See also Architecture Council/Open Issues for overflow items that were not discussed
- News from the EMO and Councils ?
Action Items
- (old) Michael to flesh out the Patterns idea and remind the EAC -- started Architecture Council/Top Ten Recommendations#Design Patterns, backed by EclipseCon tutorial proposals
- While these show how well-known GoF patterns are applied in Eclipse, Michael's idea was more to find and describe new patterns which are specific to Eclipse
- (old) Michael to draft an E-Mail about the "plugin granularity" idea, searching for people to lead the effort
- (old) Tools and Tech PMC's to encourage incubating grandfathered projects find a mentor; mentorless projects due to AC members quitting or falling dormant
- (old) Martin to add Eclipsecon meeting notes onto the wiki
- (old) Mik to create initial "architectural walkthrough" material for Mylyn -- 1 wiki page not too large, send link to the mailing list
- (old) Dave C work with Wayne on a "handbook" for project criteria for becoming a committer (referencing committer guidelines)
- Martin - recently updated the Eclipse/Workspace/Committer_FAQ#Becoming_a_Committer with pretty strict criteria (committed contributions)
- (old) Dave C come up with a document how to save build resources
- (old) Dave C to try bugzilla UNCONFIRMED state
- (old) Wayne to ask Sonatype about Nexus test installation
- (old) Wayne to try doing a 3.6m2 API Report on Helios m2
- (old) Martin to file bug for asking Mik hyperlink Wikitext / crowdsourcing Docs handbook on the Architecture Council/Top Ten Project Development Practices page
- (old) Tom S Athena Common Builder Cookbook
- (old) Tim write up an initial wiki page with information for people to standardize on the tracing API
- Martin revise the AC Wiki to make it easier to find the New Member Process. More links on homepage. More usage of categories.
- Martin bug 315210 Make the AC mailing list open / moderated
- Antoine / Dave C bug 316642 Requirements Wiki for build systems