DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 5-Dec-2006

Meeting Title:	TM Committer Phone Meeting
Date & Time:	Tuesday Dec 5, 2006 at 1600 UTC
Dial-in:	International +44 (0)1452 567588 North America +1 (866) 6161738 (toll free) UK National 08712460713 Passcode: 0587322148 #

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 fallback dial-in - only if less than 5 participants: martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (or david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight, kushal.munir, javier.montalvoorus, tedatteddotnet, michael_scharf, and uwe.stieber.

Attendees

• IBM - Dave Dykstal, Dave McKnight, Kushal Munir
• Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orús
• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber, Uwe Stieber, (Michael Scharf N/A), (Ted Williams N/A)
• Tradescape - Lothar Werzinger

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

Notes

• Our top goals
  • Grow the Communities - active users and adopters --> tutorial, docs, mailinglist help: being responsive
  • 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	50%	Setting J2SE-1.4; Playing with J2ME; Reporting & Verifying bugs; Reviewing & Releasing; Helping out with Terminal	50%
DaveD	50%	warnings cleanup; Performance Logger to be removed for 2.0?; bugs; junit	80%
DaveM	80%	Bugs; warnings cleanup;	80%
Kushal	50%	warnings cleanup; "difficult" warnings now; comm daemon - IBM ok with not having it in OSS	50%
Javier	50%	FTP bugs, warnings cleanup; proposed a new system for SD, could also discover dstore	50%
Ted	5%	n/a
Uwe	50%	Unittests
Michael	50%	n/a

Upcoming Work

• 1 week to go for RSE 1.0.1 fixes (bugzilla report)
  • DaveM - Cannot reproduce some, e.g. 166345 --> reporter needs to verify
• Adding JUnit Tests (Uwe, DaveD)
  • Uwe or DaveD to check in; Martin to create features and downloads for tests
  • Nightly Unit Tests to be added as part of Europa changes by Ted after Dec.15th
  • RSE SystemView and Performance
• Compiler Warnings
  • See the Committer Howto for settings
    • 647 -> 2 dstore.core
    • 109 -> 113 connectorservice.dstore
    • 176 -> 265 rse.core
    • 474 -> 558 files.ui
    • 134 -> 0 logging
    • 637 -> 662 services
    • 653 -> 9 services.dstore
    • 221 -> 250 subsystems.files.core
    • 1622 -> 346 rse.ui
  • Quickfix for NON-NLS-1; "look for similar problems"; found some strings that should be externalized (jobnames)
  • Currently we have printlns for many exceptions -- should be logging instead (left in english)
  • Java5 Array settings -> Fixed by setting Target Platform J2SE-1.4 everywhere
• Quality
  • Will have a 1-day public round of testing on Tuesday Dec.12, see RSE 1.0.1 Testing
  • Need to VERIFY all 1.0.1 fixes, and do another round of sanity checks
  • Docs are a high priority. Add ISV Javadoc where it is still missing or incorrect; review, and improve all docs
• Planning 2.0
  • Start IBM and EMO review process for User Actions and Import/Export (DaveD)
    • Also need a CQ for two Userdoc files for the Internal Comms Daemon
  • RSE 2.0 Planning - Finalize the 2.0 Project Plan
  • New bugs: REVIEW Assigned to Inbox, Status NEW
    • Open bugs: P1, P2 bugs, API bugs, Open with Patch,

Communications

• Europa: IBM has a request for anything coming back from Eclipse to have an src.zip (sources only) for everything that was included in the build; there is a template for deriving this; needed for IP reviews; DaveD will work with Ted on this, there might be some functionality in basebuilder already
• Change Requests
  • Might need to shift next week's meeting by 1 hour due to Orbit call; Martin to send E-Mail invitation
• Vacations, Holidays etc.
  • Movie Day on the 8th in Toronto
  • Kushal away from 18th
  • Martin, DaveM away from 25th to 1st
  • Javier away from 25th to 8th
• Free discussion -- feelings, comments, critics

Action Items

• Last Meeting Action Items
• DaveD - Submit UDA and Import/Export for IBM internal review; New bug for moving DTD.
• DaveM - Bugs; Compiler Warnings (dstore);
• Kushal - Compiler Warnings (UI); Talk to DaveD re Comm Server; Bugs
• Martin - Personal Interviews via Skype; Work on RSE 2.0 Planning; TM and RSE FAQ, improve Wiki and Website (how to contribute); Bugs; Terminalview
• Javier - Bugs;
• Ted - Document the build process (DD project), prepare for Europa build
• Michael -
• Uwe - RSE Systemview performance unit tests

Next Meeting

• Open DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 6-Dec-2006 at 9am PST
• DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 12-Dec-2006 at 1700 UTC