E4/Meeting Minutes/Status 20080807

Attendees

Kevin
- Investigation of CSS technologies (Batik, etc)
- Looking at relationship of style sheets to modeled UI work
- There will be a separate CSS technology roundup call (date to be determined on mailing list)
John
- Not clear yet on Equinox relationship to e4. We may pursue various work in either 3.x stream or e4 depending on level of disruption.
- There is some ongoing investigation of dependency injection technologies, specifically equinox declarative services (DS)
Kim
- Investigation on how to evolve perspectives in e4
Steve
- Getting EclipseCon prototype working again on GWT
- Investigation of choosing a better Java class library for SWT to use
Eric
- Looking at legacy code to see how it will work in modeled UI (Tom's EMF model)
Martin
- Interest in many areas, still having discussions to decide where to participate
Ed
- Interested in helping other people with their investigations
- Willing to contribute to anything where modeling will help
Chris
- DS tooling going into 3.5 M2
- Planning to participate in tooling for self-hosting in e4 when that starts
Doug
- Plan to have separate call to kick off resources work
Tom
- Looking at changes made by Eric
Boris
- Looking at using dependency injection in the modeled UI
- Working on demo application as proof of concept
  - Non-IDE to demonstrate we're not just about tooling
  - Photo viewing, managing application
  - Could use e4 resource model

Team communication - how can we effectively communicate across the wider team?
- Hope to organically evolve into small teams that communicate closely amongst themselves
- Project is too big to have all discussions across all participants
- Use status calls and mailing list to maintain awareness of what sub-teams are doing
- Meeting minutes on wiki and posted on mailing list