DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 31-Oct-2007

Meeting Title:	TM Committer Phone Meeting
Date & Time:	Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 at 1500 UTC / 1100 Eastern
Dial-in:	Martin to call everybody by Skype

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MartinO to start conference call - please dial in using the numbers above.
Please be available for Skype Chat in parallel to the call. MartinO will start Skype chat just prior to call.
Skype dial-in: martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (or david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight, kushal.munir, kevin.j.doyle, xuan.chen886, rupen.mardirossian, javier.montalvoorus, tedatteddotnet, michael_scharf, and uwe.stieber.

Attendees

• IBM - Xuan Chen, Dave McKnight, Kevin Doyle, Dave Dykstal, Rupen Mardirossian
• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber, Uwe Stieber, (Michael Scharf n/a)
• Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orus

This is an Open call, so anyone else can join (though we expect the talk to be interesting for committers only).

Agenda

• Last meeting: DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 17-Oct-2007

Current Work

• Skype Call Quality
  • Excellent Quality with 8 participants; Rupen had trouble connecting (Martin invited him 5 times), Uwe was muted for unknown reason.
• Committer Calls frequency - 2 weeks ok
• Planning - AI Martin to write up what we discussed in Toronto
• Bug Fixing - Remember our 2-fix-per-week / 3 unittests-per-milestone plan
• DaveD: - Working on Profile / Persistence issues - writing test cases to reproduce issues, finding issues along the way thanks to the test cases ... going to roll out fixes over the next week
• DaveM: - bug 187739 exists() method in the SystemViewElementAdapter
  • bug 207178 listFoldersAndFiles, consolidate the API?
    • Consolidate: Yes - listItems() or simply list() with an additional parameter to limit the kinds of items returned, e.g. as an int constant
    • Add API: Yes - listMultiple() with an array of parents; also get() and getMultiple() to get multiple individual files
    • Keep old methods around as deprecated delegators for 1 milestone cycle
  • bug 207095 Implicit connect now on getRemoteFileObject() -- now have a unit test for it ("FileSubsystemConsistencyTest")
• Kevin: - bug 204810 Editor Upload fix -- consequence of moving upload from main thread to secondary thread -- might have been a regression in 2.0.1
  • Looking at encoding bug where changing encoding of a file is not reflected when it was opened before. Should have a fix for it today or tomorrow.
  • bug 207189 Better wizard for linking folders as EFS into projects - Martin wants to try and get more Community Participation
    • Some IBM groups might be hopping on EFS
    • Javier - Symbian not going to use EFS
    • DaveM: Most annoying: When opening a remote project shared from EFS, files are missing - they are not refreshed automatically; Martin: Recommend linking folders into local projects for that reason
• Xuan: - bug 160775 Currently looking at "Rename running in UI thread" - will need changed API adding progress monitor. Concurrency issues with stuff going on while rename is running in background, e.g. getting properties of virtual files
  • Concurrency: Will need a lock on the archive, which clients need to acquire (with progress monitor!) before they can access the archive
  • Queries for Properties and List are good, because new information is updated in a cache immediately
  • Problem with ZIP implementation: file is locked on disk
  • Could use Martin's Mutex class (in clientserver package) for waiting; but since it also needs to go on the Server side, would need a variant of Mutex which uses a variant of progress monitor that works on the server. Cannot use synchronized because cancellation and a FIFO queue is needed
  • DaveM has CancelableHandler for DStore - might need something different for Local
  • After Rename, will look at cancellation issues
  • Can put archive stuff aside and look at other things if necessary
  • Time contributed to OpenSource depends on customer issues around debugger
• Javier: - working on couple of features (recursive delete in FTP, drag&drop, copy&paste with workaround by Download/upload) - thanks to Kevin!
  • Martin asking about Unit Tests
  • will look at bug 199773 FTP upload as binary
• Martin: - Terminal fixes; backporting bug 204810 for 2.0.x
  • Need to put Project Plan on the Web; Update Releng scripts to automatically run unit tests at night
• Uwe: - no news
• Rupen: - no news
• Michael: - n/a today
• Questions
  • M3 milestone: testing? - DaveD: At least run the Unit tests; Martin has been doing that manually so far. Would also like to have 1 day of testing.
    • Martin created TM 3.0 M3 Testing page TBD on Thursday 8-Nov-2007
  • EclipseCon: Will be discussed in PMC meeting this friday -- probably have a Tutorial on TM, and a Short Talk on New & Noteworthy

• Bugzilla:
  • Severity Major, hi-priority

Vacation, Away

• Nov 1 is public holiday in Austria

Action Items

• Last Meeting Action Items
• DaveD: fixes, unit tests
• DaveM: fixes, unit tests
• Xuan: fixes, unit tests
• Kevin: fixes, unit tests
• Martin: Write-up TM 3.0 Plan; Look at PropertyDescriptor issues; unit tests; Releng Fixes, Newsgroup
• Javier: fixes, unit tests
• Michael: Terminal performance improvements

Next Meeting

• Monthly DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 7-Nov-2007 at 9am PST / 1600 UTC
• DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 14-Nov-2007 at 1500 UTC