DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 30-Aug-2006

Meeting Title:	TM Committer Phone Meeting
Date & Time:	Wednesday Aug 30, 2006 at 8.30am Rochester / 9.30am Toronto / 2.30pm London / 3.30pm Salzburg
Dial-in:	Martin to start a Skype conference - you'll be called: Skype martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (or david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight, kushal_munir, javier.montalvoorus

Fixed-line fallback dial-in:

• International +1 314-655-1411
• North America +1 877-422-0035 (toll free)
• Passcode: 764918

Attendees

• IBM - Dave Dykstal, Dave McKnight, Kushal Munir
• (Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orús - vacation)
• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber

Agenda

• Our top goals
  • Grow the Communities - active users and adopters --> tutorial, docs, mailinglist help
  • Get the APIs Right --> enable public API discussion --> ISV docs, Wiki API discussion, [api] bugzilla's
  • Get our Processes in place --> JUnit, nightly builds, infocenter, update site
• Latest News
  • Martin -- compiler warnings, extension point cleanup (*.exsd doc), scheduled release review
    • Found Wicked Shell, will try to ask the developer to join RSE; want to make RSE Local Shell as slick as possible, so the developer is likely to join us!
  • DaveD -- not much time this week, JUnit submitted
  • DaveM -- not much time either, fixed a few bugs, going to do drag&drop next
  • Kushal -- not much time either;
    • rseConfigDefaults: IBM specific config.ini, setting System Properties; Kushal to document this (Reference docs for System Properties in ISV docs); Write Migration docs for IBM;
    • passwordPersistence: Dont allow password add/edit on the Prefs page, only remove. Do any IBM products (TPF) pre-populate the passwords? - Kushal to find out. Martin: probably use an "earlyStartup" extension point?
    • refactoring: persistence provider is very tightly integrated with model objects like filters, IHost, ISystemProfile etc. Can we move the interfaces only for now? - This would be a first step on the path.
      • DaveM to try moving interfaces on Thursday; others, NO CHECKIN on Thursday!
  • Javier -- vacation
  • Other News --
• Upcoming Work
  • M4 bugs: PLEASE REVIEW M4 BUGS!!
  • Inbox: REVIEW Assigned to Inbox
  • Timing: Martin on vacation most of October; Release Review Sept.27, M5 is Sept.22
    • Martins fixes will be in by Sept.27; manual test plans will exist
    • Executing the test plans, and bugfixing after that to be done by IBM mostly
    • Currently 142 bugs open, 18 P1/P2: P1/P2 bugs MUST be fixed by Sept. 15!
  • Source Code Style & Cleanness
    • We deliver not only a "working product" but also source code
    • Clean source code increases contributor confidence, improves code readability, helps avoiding bugs
    • Compiler Warnings: See Committer Howto
      • Currently 484 Java warnings + 642 Javadoc warnings (Martin already fixed about 150 + 250)
      • Find bugs, Fix javadoc
      • Dont chase the warnings (yet) but fix them while you are working: You can apply a filter in the Problems view if you want, e.g. "don't show String Javadoc:"
      • No more checkins of code with warnings (may be checked automatically in the future)
      • Be careful when fixing warnings: assume side effects of method calls!
    • Code Ownership:
      • It is beneficial to have clear ownership and responsibility
      • External contributors can also be owners, but have an associated committer as well
      • See (and edit) DSDP/TM/Code Ownership
      • Martin to take Ssh, Releng; Examples; FTP, Local, Contentassist for now
    • Code Style and Format - deferred to next meeting
  • Change Requests
    • Default colors for command view - white background, black or dark blue foreground - accepted
    • Deprecated getRemoteProperty() --> Document property namespaces, reserve "org.eclipse.rse" namespace - deferred to next meeting
  • Features: Jakarta-commons, JUnit-framework, Discovery, EFS-Experimental, WR-Terminal (bug 152826)
  • Refactorings: This week we should really be done!
    • Subsystem Factory vs. Configuration: Going with Configuration for now, Martin started renaming *factory where he found it while working on compiler warnings.
    • Kushal IConnectorService - Its not only the ConnectorService. DaveM to try moving the interfaces.
  • Bug Work - please observe priorities
    • DaveD: Team stuff
    • Open bugs: P1, P2 bugs, API bugs, Open with Patch,
  • Legal: JUnit (next monday?); Jakarta-commons (deferred!); WR Terminalview (passed!)
• Other items
  • Tutorial: Update at the end of the release process, change instructions (re-use example code: We dont want to teach PDE)
  • Manual test plans - in work by Martin
  • EFS Experimental feature to be created by Martin
• Free discussion -- feelings, comments, critics
  • Want to do a committer call next week in addition to the open call
  • Monday - Labor Day in US + Canada

Action Items

• Last Meeting Action Items
• DaveD - JUnit, Review bugs assigned to M4, Checkin mappings.csv, New bug for moving DTD, Send "Team" test plans to Martin. SystemRegistry API for Javier. Team fixes: Check collapsing persistence Properties nodes to fewer files. Compile a list of suggestions for making classes / packages internal.
• DaveM - Refactoring Interfaces on Thursday; bug fixing by priority
• Kushal - implement rseConfigDefaults changes; ask TPF regarding passwordPersistence changes; Review bugs assigned to M4, refactoring together with DaveM; send file encoding test resources to martin; bug fixing
• Martin - Contact WickedShell developer, Prepare Release Review Slides, Initial checkin of discovery, EFS feature, Build scripts for CDT and Discovery, Manual test plan, API Review, Jakarta-commons, WR-terminalview; Review if IShellService is sufficient for terminal
• Javier - vacation; hook up with Scott Lewis once SD is committed
• Everyone -
  • Setup Compiler Warnings in your Workspaces
  • Update DSDP/TM/Code Ownership;
  • NO CHECKINS ON THURSDAY;
  • List obsolete API on RSE 2.0 Planning page

Next Meeting

• DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 6-Sep-2006 at 9.30am Toronto
• Open DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 6-Sep-2006 at 9am PST