minutes/2006.02.27.html

<h1>Higgins</h1>
<h2>PMC Minutes February 27, 2006</h2>
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      <td>Bjorn Freeman-Benson</td>
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      <td>Cliff Schmidt</td>
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      <td>John Duimovich</td>
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      <td>Ward Cunningham</td>
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      <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the website content was out of date.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.&nbsp;</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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<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>