Architecture Council/Meetings/March 25 2012 StAC

StAC Meeting, EclipseCon 2012

Attendees

• Wayne Beaton, Igor Fedorenko, David Williams, Doug Schaefer, Andrew Overholt, Gunnar Wagenknecht, ?, ?, Tom Watson, John Arthorne, Christian Campo, Steffen Pingel,
• Tom Schindl, Achim Lörke, David Carver, Neil Hauge, Adrian Mos, Cedric Brun, Kenn Hussey

Notes

• Does StAC still exist ?
  • Had been a construct by Foundation to get input - but Don is gone, and the Requirements Council is too
  • StAC is not mentioned in the Bylaws

• Wayne: Progress turning off CVS
  • Progressing as well as it could

• Steffen: Will Gerrit be available for all committers ?
  • Wayne: Working with Janet on Legal - committers have to answer 3 questions

New Project Mgmt Infrastructre

• Wayne: New Project Mgmt Infrastructure
  • Replacement for Portal, which spreads out information over 10 databases
    • consolidating now in a single consistent UI while reducing code base, using Drupal
    • XML project descriptions
    • Project Proposals, Creations - all from a single interface
  • Tuesday Night 7pm BoF - Nathan working on a Tech Preview for everybody to play with
    • Intent to make open - go live post-Juno
    • John: Will Foundation use Drupal more actively ?
    • Couple services using Drupal today, maybe more ... but hard ramping up on Drupal (lack of docs) though implementation is good
    • Replace Project Web Pages (CVS today) with Drupal ?
  • Intent to get projects out of the "web page creation" business where possible ... the default generated page should be good enough
    • Eg use "Release Record" more actively, eg attach screenshots to a Release ... plus Videos, Blog, Downloads
  • John Reduce the incremental cost of cutting a release
    • Important for frequent releases, important in order to draw projects towards Eclipse.org
    • What is important about a Release? - Wayne doesn't want to be the bottleneck
      • Communication (today: Release Review; but adopters making decisions based on that are a bit late!)
      • IP Log check
      • Checklist / Dashboard to sign-off (self-service) on necessary steps with a Release
      • Eventually make the Release Review slideware go away
      • Hook up the "Plan" with the "Release" - some textual description of content
      • Unified, consistent messaging across projects

Review of AC Action Items

• bug 315210 Make the AC Mailing List more open
  • Consensus: Yes - technically, membership is generated but could convert into moderated list
  • AI Martin ask Denis

• bug 337004 Security Policy
  • Wayne: Policy Done
  • Mailing List exists - should be in place and populated now
  • Bugzilla supports "security keyword" - Wayne walks through all "committers only" bugs every other week and asks whether disclosing is possible
    • Wayne believes everything should be disclosed eventually
  • AI Wayne take the word "Draft" off it, but where to link from ?
    • Eg http://eclipse.org/security exists and bugs will appear there automatically after disclosure

• bug 288393 Bugzilla Best Practices
  • Triage / Status on Bugs
  • Dave Williams: New "unconfirmed" checkbox may be easier to use than "triaged" inbox
  • Andrew "needinfo" flag used at Fedora

Status of Juno

• Status of Juno
  • Things going fairly well ... but according to reports, there's still projects with missing about.html etc
  • Papyrus project goal to allow project coming back - IP team needs review, project to mark CQ as "needed for Juno"
  • Steffen: Convert reports into "per project" ?
    • Would be helpful, but pretty hard to do ... another option would be running the reports as part of project's builds
    • Tycho plugin? Google Summer of idea to automate stuff ?
    • David: The app should work as a standalone app to work against any repo already ... just docs missing at the moment
    • Kenn: Roll into Foundation Common Build Infrastructure (they have a releng now!)
      • Add to CBI list of Requirements

• Development Process
  • Wayne wants to rev the dev process like every 2 years - asking for input from the AC

Next Meetings

• Tue 8.30 AC Breakfast
• Wed 10.15 CBI/March28 2012 Symposion - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
• Wed 14.00 LTS/March28 2012 Symposion - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
• Architecture Council/Meetings/April 12 2012