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Architecture Council/Meetings/March 10 2011
| Meeting Title: | Architecture Council Monthly Meeting |
| Date & Time: | Thursday March 10, 2011 at 1600 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change HTML |  iCal
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| Dial-in: | NEW Canada 1-877-727-8553 toll free / 1-416-840-9801 caller paid NEW U.S. 1-866-394-4146 toll free / 1-480-629-1624 caller paid NEW passcode 428029063 |
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.
| BIRT: | |
Gary Xue |
| DTP: | Brian Payton | |
| Eclipse: | |
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| Modeling: | |
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| Mylyn: | Steffen Pingel | |
| RT: | |
Tom Watson |
| STP: | |
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| Technology: | |
Wayne Beaton |
| Tools: | Doug Schaefer | |
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| WTP: | |
Dave Carver Neil Hauge |
- Signed-up: Chris Aniszczyk, Wayne Beaton, Christian Campo, Dave Carver, Neil Hauge, Achim Loerke, Kim Moir, Martin O, Steffen Pingel, Pascal Rapicault, Brian Payton, Doug Schaefer, Andrew Overholt, Tom Watson, Gary Xue
- Regrets: Oliver Cole (standing conflict), Wenfeng Li (standing conflict)
- No-Show: John Arthorne, Boris Bokowski, Nick Boldt, Cédric Brun, Eugene Chan, Linda Chan, Doug Clarke, Tim deBoer, Oisin Hurley, Kenn Hussey, Mik Kersten, Markus Knauer, Bernd Kolb, Jeff McAffer, Ed Merks, Mike Milinkovich, Mary Ruddy, Michael Scharf, Tom Schindl, Darin Swanson, Antoine Toulme, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Jonathan West, David Williams, Mike Wilson, Oliver Wolf
Agenda / Notes
- Feel free to edit, but not during the call!
Review of Last Meeting
- Architecture Council/Meetings/February 10 2011
- Still open items moved to #Action_Items
New Topics
Upcoming Change of Bylaws
- Wayne: Proposes getting rid of the "AC responsible for the development, articulation, and maintenance of the Eclipse Platform Architecture"
- Propose adding AC responsible for the EDP (with Wayne being responsible for creating the document)
- Martin: OK with adding EDP responsibility. Concerned about removing Arch responsibility.
- Dave C: Expand the role from "Eclipse Platform" to applying to "Eclipse as a Whole"?
- Wayne: AC doesn't have any teeth to impose architectural direction on any of the projects ... people come for advice ... it's poll, not push
- AC is becoming increasingly mis-named... we are Mentors, help projects with good advice, drive important technical cross-cutting efforts...
- Martin: Bylaws shouldn't just reflect reality but describe the direction and expected state of the system.
- Do we acknowledge that in any truly Open system there is no Architecture anyways? Are we going to release Eclipse into chaos?
- DougS: Each project controls their own domain
- Wayne: AC has influence but no power
- Council Charter should reflect reality, it's frustrating to have a statement that can never happen ... maybe rename into "Eclipse Advisory Council" ?
- Pascal: Be honest to ourselves, nothing has ever happened in many years - Mentoring is the only realistic
- DougS: Had some false hope about good technical discussions, eg good discussion about e4
- Wayne: Recent bug about security policy
- Martin: Influence is directly related
- Wayne: Want to bring a proposal for changing the responsibility to Mike
- Project Mentoring; Architectural Monitoring, Guidance and Influence
- RESOLUTION: AI Wayne draft a statement along this lines and bring before Mike
OSS Architecture Book Beta
- Kim: I contributed a chapter on Eclipse to the upcoming Architecture of Open Source applications book. The book is in the final stages of editing, and the editor, Greg Wilson, is looking for people to review the beta of the book, and provide feedback and quotes. The book has 24 chapters and each chapter focuses on the architecture of an application produced by different open source project - for instance, Apache Hadoop, Drupal, NoSQL etc. If you are interested in reviewing the beta, let me know and I can send you the information.
Maven @ Eclipse progress
- bug 283745 Maven @ Eclipse progress, workinggroup? (Along with bug 288644 naming)
- (new) bug 337068 tasked with setting up maven.eclipse.org. Dave Carver, Alex Blewitt, and Aaron Digulla will be "given the keys"
- zx updated the bug with some information, Dave C setting up an actual Nexus repo
- zx doing some personal work - examples for how to setup a build, will bring before the AC
- Vision having a sample build for projects @ Eclipse.org, allow projects to piggyback
- Allow projects to tweak sample settings
- Setup project's git repo and initial build when a project gets provisioned
- Dave C allow people inherit from a parent POM
- Pascal: Apache has parent POM's - want to simplify access to Findbugs etc
- Martin: Apache Commons also creates websites through Maven
- Pascal: Nexus Repo already installed?
- Dave C, Wayne: Don't install anything commercial on our servers... Webmaster is on it (but busy due to recent DOS attach)
- Wayne: Tycho pack200 problems still there, hoping for GSOC proposal to get the signing going
- Dave C doesn't Jesse McConnel's Jetty stuff work?
Build Systems
- Henrik Lindberg ESE proceedings are now online WhatIsInABuildESE2010
- (old) Antoine / Dave C bug 316642 Requirements Wiki for build systems
- Nick linked the Google Doc spreadsheet
- Will see more at EclipseCon
EclipseCon
- Will have a Brakfast again
- AI Martin create Twiki page for proposed agenda topics
General Topics
- Andrew and zx bug 336874 Updating to Latest Version of Libs
- AI zx Create Indigo report
- Source References
- Martin: Now enabled in Orbit - requires libs to be re-tagged
- For Orbit, goal is "get to the CM system" more than "get the code" since we don't build the code.
- Even debugging may not be possible due to the way it's set up, still there is value in getting to the CM.
- News from the Board, EMO and Councils
- Everyone heads down on EclipseCon, nothing much new
- IP team still working very hard, everything we can do to relieve pressure is good
- Pascal's bug 331385 naming conventions for p2 Repos
- No progress so far, continue discussion on the bug
- Wayne's bug 337004 and its dependencies - Security Vulnerabilities
- Some input happened ... probably on the right track ... would want more input and influence from AC
- Craft a bunch of tools / best practices that help projects
- Main drivers are projects in the RT space
- Welcome Steffen Pingel
- Committer on MPC, p2, Mylyn (main focus)
Old Topics
- bug 324125 architecture diagrams - 2006 version - relationship to e4 ?
- 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
- Cleaned up old action items, see Architecture Council/Meetings/February 10 2011 for old stuff
- (old) Martin to add Eclipsecon meeting notes onto the wiki
- (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
Next Meeting
- EclipseCon Face-to-Face
- Architecture Council/Meetings/April 14 2011