| <h1>Brian resigns, VTP, IDE for Laszlo</h1> |
| <h2>PMC Minutes February 6, 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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| <td>Bjorn Freeman-Benson</td> |
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| <td>Wayne Beaton</td> |
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| <td>Cliff Schmidt</td> |
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| <td>Ward Cunningham</td> |
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| <td>John Duimovich</td> |
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| <p>We accepted the resignation of Brian Barry from the PMC. Brian was one of the |
| founders of the Technology Project and a key reason for its success. He |
| believes the Project is in good hands with the newly expanded PMC and thus moves |
| on to focus his energies elsewhere. We are disappointed to see him go, and thank |
| him for helping to bring the Technology Project to the vibrant success that it |
| is today.</p> |
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| <p>Cliff noted that the PMC minutes are near impossible to find via the website, |
| so Bjorn linked them from the PMC page as well.</p> |
| |
| <p>We reviewed our review of the <a href="/vtp/">Voice Tools Project</a>. We |
| discovered that VTP is an active project (a low-level of activity, but active) |
| and thus encouraged the team to do more of their work in public (on the mailing |
| lists, newsgroups, bugzilla, etc). The team accepted this advice and has already |
| begun to work more in public.</p> |
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| <p>This week we reviewed the <a href="/laszlo/">IDE for Laszlo</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 noticed that there is no discussion on the dev mailing list; |
| the website does not list team members nor project leaders nor milestones nor a |
| project plan; there are only two bugs in the bugzilla, neither of which has been |
| responded to by the development team; most of the CVS files were committed three |
| months ago and have not been touched since; there are no integration or |
| milestone builds and the build number is not Eclipse standard. There is a little |
| conversation on the newsgroup, but it is mostly people saying "it doesn't |
| work" and then someone replying that specific versions X and Y of various |
| plug-ins are needed. Our fear is that this project is a <i>code dump</i> - a |
| project that was formed around an initial contribution of completed code and |
| then abandoned by the developers. We sent the project lead (Amy Muntz) an email |
| asking for an explanation and/or more details.</p> |
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| <p>Next week we will review the <a href="/ptp/">Parallel Tools Project</a>.</p> |