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** [[Architecture Council/Meetings/March 25 2012 StAC]]
 
** [[Architecture Council/Meetings/March 25 2012 StAC]]
 
** [[Architecture Council/Meetings/March 27 2012 Breakfast]]
 
** [[Architecture Council/Meetings/March 27 2012 Breakfast]]
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** good feedback from attendees on content (Doug), location, and networking opportunities (Christian)
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** Christian commented that javafx seems to have a lot of momentum and seems to be the way forward (Tom Schindl wasn't around to second that :))
 
** Wed 10.15 '''[[CBI/March28 2012]] Symposion''' - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
 
** Wed 10.15 '''[[CBI/March28 2012]] Symposion''' - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
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*** great interest, all seats full at session
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*** code sprint occurring yesterday/today at Eclipse Foundation office
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*** on track for (tentative) use by Eclipse project for Juno SR1
 
** Wed 14.00 '''[[LTS/March28 2012]] Symposion''' - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
 
** Wed 14.00 '''[[LTS/March28 2012]] Symposion''' - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
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*** many interested parties
 +
*** Pat Huff and Jochen Krause will be co-chairs
  
 
* [[LTS]] related to maintaining high quality of Platform in its current stream, with reduced number of Platform core committers
 
* [[LTS]] related to maintaining high quality of Platform in its current stream, with reduced number of Platform core committers
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*'''Updates from the Board'''  
 
*'''Updates from the Board'''  
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** Chris A. mentioned that there was some concern regarding Juno readiness but those concerns have been addressed as things look good
 
*'''Maven @ Eclipse progress'''  
 
*'''Maven @ Eclipse progress'''  
**Parent POM ?
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** there continues to be lots of interest but no one had any news at this time
**Hudson ?
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* Platform build
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** David and others have done a great job continuing Kim's work of moving the build to Foundation hardware
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** '''please test''' the current builds:  (ex. http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20120411-2034/index.php)
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** David estimates a few weeks until unit tests are running
 +
** for now, source builds are dropped
 +
** there are plenty of bugs and information in them so search bugzilla for details
 +
 
 +
* New Project Management Infrastructure
 +
** Wayne re-iterated the killer features:  in-place editing, centralized location for all the information, automation to help ease releases (no more blocking on people ("I for one welcome our new Project Management Infrastructure overlords"))
 +
** feel free to provide feedback on the prototype (it has old data):  http://projects.eclipse.org/
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* GSoC
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** Eclipse has 12 slots with Google Summer of Code
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** healthy student ideas and mentors
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** there is still time if you want to become a mentor or get involved
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** '''AI Wayne''' to send details of how to get involved
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** projects and mentor-student pairings will be decided on 23 April
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* Eclipse Foundation Asterisk system
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** pretty good sound quality (Christian said those using SIP clients sounded better)
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** slight background drone but that could be from someone's phone
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* Juno
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** people busy so not much news on SimRel report front or on Juno in general
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** '''M7 coming up in less than a month!'''
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* git
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** Wayne said the move of Eclipse websites to git will be happening soon
 +
** 252 days until CVS shut off:  http://eclipse.org/projects/scmcountdown.php
 +
** most projects still on CVS plan to move post-Juno
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** steady stream of requests by projects to use '''gerrit'''
  
 
*AC Backlog
 
*AC Backlog
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** Security policy no longer draft (thanks, Wayne and others)!
  
 
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Revision as of 12:38, 12 April 2012

Meeting Title: Architecture Council Monthly Meeting
Date & Time: Thursday April 12, 2012 at 1500 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change
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Dial-in: Let's use the Foundation's Asterisk setup for this call:
  • Ottawa (local call in Ottawa) 1-613-288-9131
  • North America (toll free) 1-877-253-0615
  • Germany (local call anywhere in Germany) 49-692-2224-6059
  • France (local call anywhere in France) 33-17-070-8535
  • UK (toll free) 0800-033-7806

Participant conference extension: 701 then enter pin: 51968

  • SIP clients can call 701@asterisk.eclipse.org, then enter pin 51968.

Attendees

All AC Members are invited.

  • PMC Reps please confirm attendance or list your delegate below. Every PMC is required to name a primary and backup delegate, and to ensure that one delegate attends the meeting.
BIRT: Wenfeng Li Wenbin He
DTP: Brian Payton Linda Chan
Eclipse: Mike Wilson John Arthorne
Boris Bokowski
Modeling: Ed Merks Cédric Brun
Sven Efftinge
Mylyn: Steffen Pingel Mik Kersten
RT: Christian Campo Tom Watson
SOA: Adrian Mos Sebastien Gandon
Technology: Gunnar Wagenknecht Wayne Beaton
Tools: Doug Schaefer
WTP: Chuck Bridgham Dave Carver
Neil Hauge


  • Regrets: Oliver Cole (standing conflict), Wenfeng Li (standing conflict), Neil Hauge, Sebastien Gandon, Martin O (conflict), Adrian Mos, John Arthorne
  • Signed-up: Wayne Beaton, Chuck Bridgham, Christian Campo, Igor Fedorenko, Markus Knauer, Kim Moir, Andrew Overholt, Doug Schaefer, David Williams, Ken Hussey, Chris Aniszczyk, <insert other names here>

Agenda / Notes

  • Feel free to edit, but not during the call!

Review of Last Meeting

New Topics

  • EclipseCon - What interesting news about our Community did we find ? Any action items to derive ?
    • Architecture Council/Meetings/March 25 2012 StAC
    • Architecture Council/Meetings/March 27 2012 Breakfast
    • good feedback from attendees on content (Doug), location, and networking opportunities (Christian)
    • Christian commented that javafx seems to have a lot of momentum and seems to be the way forward (Tom Schindl wasn't around to second that :))
    • Wed 10.15 CBI/March28 2012 Symposion - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
      • great interest, all seats full at session
      • code sprint occurring yesterday/today at Eclipse Foundation office
      • on track for (tentative) use by Eclipse project for Juno SR1
    • Wed 14.00 LTS/March28 2012 Symposion - Reston Suites A (Andrew Ross)
      • many interested parties
      • Pat Huff and Jochen Krause will be co-chairs
  • LTS related to maintaining high quality of Platform in its current stream, with reduced number of Platform core committers

General Topics

  • Updates from the Board
    • Chris A. mentioned that there was some concern regarding Juno readiness but those concerns have been addressed as things look good
  • Maven @ Eclipse progress
    • there continues to be lots of interest but no one had any news at this time
  • Platform build
    • David and others have done a great job continuing Kim's work of moving the build to Foundation hardware
    • please test the current builds: (ex. http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20120411-2034/index.php)
    • David estimates a few weeks until unit tests are running
    • for now, source builds are dropped
    • there are plenty of bugs and information in them so search bugzilla for details
  • New Project Management Infrastructure
    • Wayne re-iterated the killer features: in-place editing, centralized location for all the information, automation to help ease releases (no more blocking on people ("I for one welcome our new Project Management Infrastructure overlords"))
    • feel free to provide feedback on the prototype (it has old data): http://projects.eclipse.org/
  • GSoC
    • Eclipse has 12 slots with Google Summer of Code
    • healthy student ideas and mentors
    • there is still time if you want to become a mentor or get involved
    • AI Wayne to send details of how to get involved
    • projects and mentor-student pairings will be decided on 23 April
  • Eclipse Foundation Asterisk system
    • pretty good sound quality (Christian said those using SIP clients sounded better)
    • slight background drone but that could be from someone's phone
  • Juno
    • people busy so not much news on SimRel report front or on Juno in general
    • M7 coming up in less than a month!
  • git
    • Wayne said the move of Eclipse websites to git will be happening soon
    • 252 days until CVS shut off: http://eclipse.org/projects/scmcountdown.php
    • most projects still on CVS plan to move post-Juno
    • steady stream of requests by projects to use gerrit
  • AC Backlog
    • Security policy no longer draft (thanks, Wayne and others)!


Old Topics

  • bug 324125 architecture diagrams - 2006 version - relationship to e4 ?
  • IP Logs - Martin and Wayne - project woolsey exists and open for community, Wayne hopes get soemthing downloadable by Christmas
    • Allow projects to file bugs which list collections of libraries that are used for testing (and mark these collectively as exemt prereqs)
      • Couldn't distribute those libs or put them in scm, but could have them on the build server

We need to reduce our bug backlog, by actually coming to a common resolution on some. Here are the most recent ones:

  • DaveC would like to discuss New Committer Guidelines; Scrum / Agile techniques
  • bug 288393 - Denis - Bugzilla Best Practices

Action Items

  • Cleaned up old action items, see Architecture Council/Meetings/February 10 2011 for old stuff
  • (old) Martin to add Eclipsecon meeting notes onto the wiki
  • (old) Tim write up an initial wiki page with information for people to standardize on the tracing API
  • (old) Martin revise the AC Wiki to make it easier to find the New Member Process. More links on homepage. More usage of categories.
  • (old) Martin bug 315210 Make the AC mailing list open / moderated

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