DTP PMC Meeting, September 30, 2008

Attendees

Decide on JDK level (looks like JDK 1.5 for the build platform)
Decide on Branch date for Galileo (first milestone we're really concerned with is M3, which is dated 11/5/2008 for +1 projects) http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=datatools
- If we're switching to JDK 1.5, that's going to require a branch long before 11/5. There will be a fair amount of fixing that needs to be done.
- As for the API refactoring, it was decided last night that the Connectivity API refactoring isn't required for this release. However, I'm still hopeful that the SQL Editor UI/non-UI refactoring will occur. And depending on the degree of change, it may be an API-breaking change and require a 2.0 vs. 1.7 designation. Won't know more until the 2nd week of October when the Chinese holiday is over (Hung says most of his team is back Oct. 7)
(John) Discussion of consolidated servers view BZ247934
Open discussion

Dates for 1.6.2 milestones
- 1.6.2 M1 - October 31, 2008 (freeze on October 28)
- 1.6.2 M2 - December 12, 2008 (freeze on October 9)
- Use a similar rampdown policy to what we did in 1.6.1
- Send a message to the community describing milestones/dates/policies
Tentative branch date for Galileo on November 12, 2008
Most likely this will be a 1.7 release for DTP with no major feature changes
Look into JDBC interfaces that have broken in JDK 1.5 to see if there are backward-compatibility changes that can be made