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| <td>Attending: David Williams [DW], Arthur Ryman [AR], Naci Dai [ND] | |
| <h1>WTP PMC Minutes for August 23, 2005 Conference Call</h1> | |
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| 1. Ecosystem Update | |
| Lawrence: | |
| - the FAQ page has been updated | |
| - tte Community page will be updated soon | |
| - most tutorials have been updated to reflect WTP 0.7 content | |
| - there has been great feedback on WTP 0.7 in the newsgroup, frequent posts, good discussions, problem reports captured as bugs | |
| - Help system contributions have been received from Christoph Krawczyk and Christopher Judd | |
| - EclipseWorld is being held in New York next week and there are many WTP presentations | |
| - EclipseCon 2006 has issued a call for submissions, please ask your colleagues to contribute abstracts | |
| 2. WTP 0.7.1 Release Status | |
| David - the NL fixes have been made | |
| Naci - looks like non-NL fixes have also been committed | |
| Arthur - we need to limit fixes to NL and sever problems | |
| - we have not formally committed to a 0.7.1 release | |
| - we need to establish the demand from adapters and end users | |
| - if we do have a formal 0.7.1 release, we should synchronize it with Eclipse 3.1.1 | |
| [action] Arthur to followup on demand for a 0.7.1 release [1] | |
| 3. WTP 1.0 Release Planning | |
| Arthur - we need to firm up our plans and establish the API set we will release | |
| - see the roadmap for 1.0 priorities [2]: | |
| * Promote selected provisional APIs to platform status based on vendor requirements. | |
| * Componentize WTP into Features to enable adopters to select subsets of function. | |
| * Fix National Language bugs. | |
| * Fix Accessibility bugs. | |
| * Fix other important bugs, with high priority given to those required by adopters. | |
| * Upgrade Help system content. | |
| David - agreed, with the understanding that performance problems are included under "other important bugs" | |
| - I've been working on the Feature definition | |
| Naci - agreed | |
| Arthur - any planned enhancements in addition to bugs? | |
| Naci - possibly a CMP EJB creation wizard | |
| - some Web service enhancements are being planned | |
| David - possibly spell checking and folding, subject to sizing and resource | |
| [action] Arthur to send out note requesting component leads to update their milestone plans and to map APIs to milestones | |
| David - the recent build breaks have been mainly caused by JUnit timeouts, but are otherwise stable | |
| - the builds may destabilize as more code gets committed | |
| 4. Release Engineering | |
| David - we resolved the treatment of maintenance (M) builds | |
| - they are treated like integration builds | |
| Naci - I've need refactoring the build scripts and and documenting the process | |
| - we need to have reproducible builds that can be run locally | |
| - I am restructuring the tasks so they are more modular | |
| - I've been assessing Maven, which is widely used at Apache, as a way to simplify our build scripts | |
| 5. Charter Revisions | |
| Arthur - Mike proposal a delta to our revisions in the area of working on draft standards | |
| - the terms of use of the draft standards must be consistent with our use in Eclipse | |
| Naci - agreed | |
| David - agreed | |
| [action] Tim to make the change and resubmit to Mike for approval | |
| 6. WTP 1.5 Planning | |
| Arthur - see roadmap [2] | |
| - Eclipse 3.2 is proposing a train | |
| - projects can opt in to a coordinated release | |
| - recommend we opt in | |
| - to catch the train we need to move up our milestone dates by 2 weeks | |
| David - agree | |
| Naci - agree | |
| Arthur - I'll update the roadmap now, but we should wait for a PMC quorum to formally opt it | |
| [action] Tim to review Eclipse 3.2 planning with PMC and hold vote on opting in | |
| [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107743 | |
| [2] http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/planning/roadmap.html | |
| 7. Architecture Update | |
| David - I am working on a proposal for Feature definition in WTP 1.0 and will post it soon | |
| Arthur - can we target this for 1.0 M8? | |
| David - yes, but not completely due to some additional refactoring work | |
| 8. Other Business | |
| Naci - Gorkem has developed a PDE tool to aid ISVs in creating server adapters | |
| David - has the PMC agreed to support this type of tool | |
| Arthur - this will help promote the adoption of WTP APIs and extension points | |
| - we should encourage this type of tool for all of our extension points | |
| David - I suggest we start by packaging this type of tool in the SDK examples directory of each component | |
| David - should be be providing zips for each Feature? | |
| - if so, can we use CVS to host them? | |
| Arthur - CVS is not good for binaries since it can't diff them and the server isn't mirrored | |
| - why not have a single binary zip and let adopters extract binaries from it? | |
| David - OK, we won't build mulriple zips for now | |
| </pre> <small>Minutes taken by Arthur Ryman, August 23, 2005</small></td> | |
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