| <h1>Higgins</h1> |
| <h2>PMC Minutes February 27, 2006</h2> |
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| <td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>Attending</b></td> |
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| <td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>Regrets</b></td> |
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| <td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>Missing</b></td> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Bjorn Freeman-Benson</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>Cliff Schmidt</td> |
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| <td>John Duimovich</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Ward Cunningham</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>Wayne Beaton</td> |
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| <p>Action Items from last week:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="/laszlo/">IDE for Laszlo</a> - No follow-up with Amy yet; Ward |
| will call again this week</li> |
| <li> <a href="/ptp/">Parallel Tools Project</a> - Cliff will report next week</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>We reviewed the <a href="/higgins/">Higgins</a> project. As |
| with all project reviews, we started by looking at the public evidence of the |
| project: mailing lists, newsgroups, bugzilla, website, project plan, CVS |
| repository, etc. We found an old-style website but more troubling, we found that |
| the website content was out of date. For example, passwords have not been |
| required for the newsgroups since last summer, yet the Higgins newsgroup page |
| still says that they are. We found that most of the Higgins website appears |
| off-site on an editme.com wiki; why not use the Eclipse wiki. More importantly, |
| having the website off-site makes it more difficult for the Eclipse community to |
| access the material (and for eclipse.org to archive and index the contents). |
| Looking at the recent changes for editme.com wiki, we see a reasonable amount of |
| activity however... We noticed that Higgins does not have project-info |
| information and thus the project does not appear in the dashboard. Also, there |
| are only four (total) bugs in Bugzilla: 1 fixed, 1 invalid and 2 open. The open |
| ones have been open without comment since September and November. ...However, we |
| notice that the editme.com wiki is being used as a pseudo-wiki for storing bugs |
| and enchancements. Again, this makes it hard for the community to participate.</p> |
| <p>The newsgroup had two posts in December, one in January, and two small |
| threads in February. <a href="http://phoenix.eclipse.org/dash/activity-cvs.cgi?proj=higgins">Looking |
| at the CVS</a>, we see that Paul does most of the commits, but it seems to be a |
| one-commit-a-month style rather than the continuous development that is expected |
| of an active Eclipse project. It looks like things are going on, but we wonder |
| if this is really an <i>Eclipse</i> project, i.e., a project with a home and a |
| community at Eclipse. </p> |
| <p>Bjorn will adopt this project and contact Paul.</p> |
| |
| <p>Next week we will review <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/lepido/">Lepido, |
| Tools for Apache Cocoon</a>.</p> |
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| <hr> |
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| <p>Current project mentors:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li>Bjorn |
| <ul> |
| <li> <a href="/higgins/">Higgins</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Cliff |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="/ptp/">Parallel Tools Project</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Ward |
| <ul> |
| <li> <a href="/vtp/">Voice Tools Project</a></li> |
| <li><a href="/laszlo/">IDE for Laszlo</a> </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Wayne |
| <ul> |
| <li><i>none yet</i></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>John |
| <ul> |
| <li><i>none yet</i></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |