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Meeting Title:	Architecture Council Monthly Meeting
Date & Time:	Thursday December 9, 2010 at 1600 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change HTML | iCal
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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.

• Regrets: Oliver Cole (standing conflict), Wenfeng Li (standing conflict), Andrew Overholt (sabbatical), Darin Wright (conflict)

Agenda / Notes

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

Review of Last Meeting

• Architecture Council/Meetings/November 11 2010
• (old) Antoine / Dave C bug 316642 Requirements Wiki for build systems
• Still open items moved to #Action Items

New Topics

• bug 324125 architecture diagrams - 2006 version - relationship to e4 ?
  • not yet

• Build systems requirements - Antoine, Dave C

• IP Logs - Martin and Wayne

• News from the Board, EMO and Councils

e4 - current state of affairs

Items for next meeting

Regular briefing on the status of e4.

Old Topics

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 285074 - Dave Carver - Hudsonbuilder and write access to the cvs / svn repo
• bug 288393 - Denis - Bugzilla Best Practices

• AC Bugzilla backlog
• See also Architecture Council/Open Issues for overflow items that were not discussed
• News from the EMO and Councils ?

Action Items

• (old) Michael to flesh out the Patterns idea and remind the EAC -- started Architecture Council/Top Ten Recommendations#Design Patterns, backed by EclipseCon tutorial proposals
  • While these show how well-known GoF patterns are applied in Eclipse, Michael's idea was more to find and describe new patterns which are specific to Eclipse
• (old) Michael to draft an E-Mail about the "plugin granularity" idea, searching for people to lead the effort
• (old) Tools and Tech PMC's to encourage incubating grandfathered projects find a mentor; mentorless projects due to AC members quitting or falling dormant
• (old) Martin to add Eclipsecon meeting notes onto the wiki
• (old) Mik to create initial "architectural walkthrough" material for Mylyn -- 1 wiki page not too large, send link to the mailing list
• (old) Dave C work with Wayne on a "handbook" for project criteria for becoming a committer (referencing committer guidelines)
  • Martin - recently updated the Eclipse/Workspace/Committer_FAQ#Becoming_a_Committer with pretty strict criteria (committed contributions)
• (old) Dave C come up with a document how to save build resources
• (old) Dave C to try bugzilla UNCONFIRMED state
• (old) Wayne to ask Sonatype about Nexus test installation
• (old) Wayne to try doing a 3.6m2 API Report on Helios m2
• (old) Martin to file bug for asking Mik hyperlink Wikitext / crowdsourcing Docs handbook on the Architecture Council/Top Ten Project Development Practices page
• (old) Tom S Athena Common Builder Cookbook
• (old) Tim write up an initial wiki page with information for people to standardize on the tracing API
• Martin revise the AC Wiki to make it easier to find the New Member Process. More links on homepage. More usage of categories.
• Martin bug 315210 Make the AC mailing list open / moderated
• Antoine / Dave C bug 316642 Requirements Wiki for build systems

Next Meeting

• Architecture Council/Meetings/January 13 2010