DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 2-May-2007

Meeting Title:	Conference Call on Target Management
Date & Time:	Wednesday May 2, 2007 at 1600 UTC / 9am PST
Primary International Dial-in:	+44 (0)1452 567588
USA Freephone Dial-In:	+1 (866) 6161738
UK National Dial-In:	08712460713
Passcode:	0587322148 #

Invited Attendees

This meeting is free for everyone to attend. We specially encourage those people to attend who are actively working on, or have shown interest in TM before:

Attendees

• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber
• IBM - Dave McKnight, Dave Dykstal, Kushal Munir
• Symbian - Javier Montalvo
• Self-employed startup - Uday Kabe

Notes

• Uday: Using Eclipse RCP for a Lotus Notes extension with EMF, wants to upload with FTP through RCP, finding problems with editing in RCP: e.g. WST XML editor depending on Debug
  • Not using some RSE plugins e.g. shell; created a couple of patches to modify plugin.xml files e.g. to remove system types - how to get a particular version of RSE out of CVS?
    • MartinO: val-tags not properly filled, will try to fix that; workaround for now is to get HEAD from the cvs_setup page which also holds the Team Project Sets, then "Team > Switch to another branch or version" afterwards: After "Refresh", correct tags should be shown
    • MartinO: Only releases are tagged as R1_0, R1_0_1; for Milestones, the releng maps are used in (org.eclipse.tm.rse/releng/org.eclipse.rse.build/maps/rse.map)
    • Want to drag&drop stuff from the "Notes" View to FTP - PluginTransfer callback not activated?
    • Resource exceptions at the very startup, because it tries to create dom.properties as soon as a resource modification comes in, this throws exceptions and do more workspace modification stuff in the same thread
      • DaveD - currently refactoring the persistence provider; can probably clean it up
• Where is TM heading?
  • Consolidating, API cleanup for 2.0 - making stuff internal
  • Want to have "internal" stuff re-usable as well - Martin: "internal" packages are also exported, as per Eclipse common practice
• Please keep the RCP perspective in mind
• Where to get Architecture information?
  • Use the TM and RSE FAQ, EclipseCon07 Tutorial, or RSE ISV Docs
• Aptana also has some SSH / Upload facility
• Platform/Team FTP and WebDAV - Discontinued, to be replaced by DSDP-TM / RSE

Action Items

• Martin: Fix the "Versions" node for DSDP-TM Repository in Eclipse CVS Repository Explorer (done 3-May-2007)
• DaveD: Cleanup persistence provider to fix resource exceptions at early startup
• Uday: Test cleaned-up persistence provider from HEAD as soon as a stable build towards M7 is announced
• Uday: Create bugzilla reports for any issues found (e.g. PluginTransfer issue).

Next Meeting

• Next DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 6-Jun-2007 (5 weeks after)