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Architecture Council/Meetings/May 21 2015
| Meeting Title: | Architecture Council Monthly Meeting |
| Date & Time: | Thursday May 21, 2015 at 1600 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change HTML |  iCal
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| Dial-in: | Let's use the Foundation's Asterisk setup for this call:
Participant conference extension: 701 then enter pin: 51968
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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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| RT: | Christian Campo | Ian Bull |
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| Technology: | Gunnar Wagenknecht | Wayne Beaton |
| Tools: | Doug Schaefer | |
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All Attendees
- In attendance: Max Andersen, Wayne Beaton, Marcel Bruch, Ian Bull, Christian Campo, Konstantin Kommissarchik, Denis Roy, Jonas Helming, Doug Schaefer, Martin O, Michael Scharf, Eike Stepper, Krum Tsvetkov, Gunnar Wagenknecht
Agenda / Notes
- Feel free to edit, but not during the call!
Review of Last Meeting
- Architecture Council/Meetings/April 9 2015
- Still open items moved to #Action_Items
New Topics
- Welcome Max Andersen (representing Red Hat as a Strategic Member)
- Leading JBoss Tools for RH, involved with Eclipse sine 10+ years - using and contributing to many projects
- Committer to Andmore, WTP and Dali; Couple other committers on the team (Gorkem Ercan, Rob Stryker) and working with others (Tim Fox, Alex Kurtakov, ...)
- Interested in process implifications, and seeing what the AC can do
- Welcome Konstantin Kommisarchik
- Leading a team at Oracle - both commercial and contributions to various projects (WTP, ...)
- Wayne: Nominations - AI Wayne take next step to contact candidates if they would be willing to join
Evangelism
- Wayne: AC to do more evangelism
- Take part of our monthly call to talk about evangelism (blogging; conferences; stickers, swag, ...)
- Wayne can provide resources eg couple of slides like "What is the Eclipse Foundation"
- *not* about adding more work on AC member's plate; all about "how do we help each other" eg conferences that we visit already
- Marcel: Not sure how well this would work ... evangelism is about going to more conferences ?
- Wayne: Eg at Devoxx France made good experiences
- Jonas: Sees always the same people at "Eclipse related" events; doesn't see much Eclipse related content on other conferences
- Jonas: How to get to a new conference as a speaker ?
- Foundation could potentially help getting some credibility for the speaker (eg do a promo video)
- Example: Wayne is on the selection committee for the Development Tools track at JavaOne
- First Steps: Who's speaking at which conferences ? Eg set up an event page
- AI Wayne follow up after the minutes
- AI Martin create an initial table on the Wiki
- Wayne: There's http://events.eclipse.org which we could better leverage
Max: Challenges with Vertex
- Process: Release Reviews, and the 2-week process; IP Review seen as extreme overhead
- Wayne: Can help on technical items
Marcel: Error Reporting
- Works well for some projects, but apparently not well enough for others (never got in touch with the system)
- Platform accumulated around 700 different issues, but only 60 of them currently tracked in bugzilla
- Anything we could do to help Platform with resources - at least for fixing simple issues like NPEs ?
- In touch with Lars, and Dani (to some extent) -- busy with endgame plan, planning to look at things after Mars Release
- Many projects just look at issues the last day of their milestone ... others (eg JDT) doing an amazing job
- Any alternative channel reaching out to projects
- Denis: Been fairly successful with please for help (if specific, and frequent) on eclipse.org-committers
- Max will try to find people in RH to help
- Wayne: If swag is necessary, could help out (like greatfix initiative - great success)
- Would like to do something like greatfix every month - looking at AC to provide proposals
- Max feels that every month might be too much (and make it even more special every year)
- Would like to do something like greatfix every month - looking at AC to provide proposals
- Related: "Every Detail Matters for Mars" - want to make the IDE very user-focused (versus project focused)