DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 6-Feb-2007

Meeting Title:	TM Committer Phone Meeting
Date & Time:	Tuesday Feb 6, 2007 at 1700 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 McKnight, Dave Dykstal, Kushal Munir
• Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orús
• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber, Uwe Stieber, Michael Scharf, Ted Williams

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%	EclipseCon; EFS Symlinks; Enabled "internal" warnings; Bugzilla discussions.	50%
DaveD	80%	UDA contribution work, ready to submit next week; cleaned up M5 backlog; moving core UI->core	100%
DaveM	50%	EclipseCon; IBM stuff; reading+commenting on bugs	50%
Kushal	100%	Encodings; adding unittests now; discovery w/javier	100%
Javier	50%	169680 passive mode;	50%
Ted	0%		0%
Uwe	20%	adapting RSE; filing bugs, attaching patches	20%
Michael	20%	improving Terminal performance	20%

• Javier: PropertySetContainer doesnt persist Boolean -- AI file a bug and write a unit test
• DaveD: How were the "internal" warnings done? - Martin: in Manifest.mf export-package: statement add;x-internal="true"

Upcoming Work

• Top priority this week is getting API things done for M5. Plan items are currently more important than bug priorities.
  • Martin & DaveM work on EclipseCon tutorial: fix bugs as needed
  • 170923 (DaveD) UI/Non-UI splitting
  • 163820 (Kushal) Encodings
  • 170916 (Kushal) EFS
    • What about putting EFS directly on top of IFileService without using the cache
  • 170627 (DaveM) ISystemFilter in SystemViewElementAdapter.getChildren()
  • 173042 (Uwe) Improved / pluggable Refresh
  • 170832 (Martin) Read-only setting on ssh - what about using EFS on the back-end? (dstore doesnt do streams)
  • 170922 (DaveM, Martin) Making as much as possible "internal": SystemView, SystemFilterReferenceAdapter, Subsystem Impls
    • AI: component owners to come up with a list by thursday
  • 170915 (DaveM) Getting rid of Platform "internal" access
    • ok with getting rid of popupMenus; testAttribute() already implemented in SystemViewElementAdapter
    • dynamicPopupMenus? - If we can't live without Platform "internal" access, we should get rid of it - Uwe thinks it can be done with standard Eclipse.
    • Plan: 1. re-write usage of popupMenus etc. to use plain Eclipse; 2. get rid of EP --> AI DaveM
  • add unit tests for all new or modified API

• New Europa Requirements from Planning Council Meeting 23-Jan-2007
  • Written ramp down policy by Feb. 23rd --> AI Martin: wait for what Platform does and adapt it
  • Avoiding non-API from other projects
    • AI create bugzillas for getting rid of Platform Internal access and hook them up with a plan item; Europa requires that these are in the release notes and there is a plan for addressing these in the next major release
  • Update features and include the words "end-user" and "extender" --> AI Martin wait for Platform and adapt
  • Update Wiki to explain whether SDK contains examples --> AI Martin wait for Platform and adapt
• For bugs, see the bug process page (assigned to inbox, plan items, status new, hi-priority, API, open with patch, assigned to M5) -- pretty many right now

Communications

• General code cleanup -- to do right after M4:
  • Get rid of unused icons, e.g. rse.ui/icons/full/obj16/system390_obj.gif, IBM_logo.gif
  • Get rid of commented out source code
  • Get rid of unused properties (chkpii)
• Change Requests
• Vacations, Holidays etc.
  • DaveD going to Florida on Thursday next week (Feb 15th-21st)
• Free discussion -- feelings, comments, critics
  • Decided to fix the committer meeting slot to 1700 UTC (same as today).

Action Items

• Last Meeting Action Items
• Everybody - Come up with a list of classes from the areas you own, which can be internal (by thursday)
• DaveD - Refactoring UI/Non-UI; Persistence; Bugzilla bug for User Actions Contribution; Remove RSE Performance Logging; Bugs & Unit tests;
• DaveM - EclipseCon; re-write rse.popupMenus usage; Bugs & Unit tests; finish permission API; download Streams API;
• Kushal - Encodings; EFS; Talk to DaveD re Comm Server; Bugs & Unit Tests
• Martin - EclipseCon tutorial; Check r/o flags and timestamps for ssh; Commit Montavista contrib; Migrate build to Ted's scripts; Migrate Commons.net to single-file-jar; Bugs & Unit Tests; Personal Interviews via Skype; Work on TM and RSE FAQ, improve Wiki and Website (how to contribute);
• Javier - Unittest for Boolean Propertyset; Check r/o flags and timestamps for ftp; FTP passive mode; Improve SD
• Ted -
• Michael - Terminal Performance Improvements
• Uwe -

Next Meeting

• Open DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 7-Feb-2007 at 9am PST
• DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 13-Feb-2007 at 1700 UTC