Architecture Council/Meetings/January 12 2017

Meeting Title:	Architecture Council Monthly Meeting
Date & Time:	Thursday January 12, 2017 at 1100 Ottawa HTML | iCal
Dial-in:	Let's use the Foundation's Asterisk setup for this call: North America (toll free) 1-866-569-4992 Germany (local call anywhere in Germany) 49-692-2224-6059 France (local call anywhere in France) 33-17-070-8535 Switzerland (local call anywhere in Switzerland) +41-44-580-2115 Spain, Sweden, others - see Asterisk/Numbers Participant conference extension: 701 then enter pin: 51968 SIP clients can call 701@asterisk.eclipse.org, then enter pin 51968.

Attendees

• In attendance: Carl Andersen (WTP), Mikael Barbero, Wayne Beaton, Marcel Bruch, Jonas Helming, Jim Hughes, Marc-Andre Laperle, Dani Megert, Martin O, Denis Roy, Doug Schaefer, Michael Scharf, Matthias Sohn, Eike Stepper,

#PMC_Rep_Attendees see also below.

Agenda / Notes

• Feel free to edit, but not during the call!
• Last meeting: Architecture Council/Meetings/December 8 2016 -- open actions see #Action_Items

General Topics

• Carl Andersen introduction
  • Been with IBM for a very long time, replacing David Williams

• Denis: Simrel Build taken on by Frederic Gurr
  • Please support Frederic in this new role
  • Will shift some discussion on build mechanics from cross-project to the cbi-dev mailing list
  • Eclipse Platform build still done by Platform project (Sravan), Fred only does the aggregation

• Marcel: New AC Members
  • AI Wayne nomination

• Marcel: Next Iteration of FEEP
  • Mikael: received 6 bids in December, reviewing now, expect to present next week
  • Looking at Budget available, this is a good number, would love to have more but may not be able to fund all of them

• Marcel/Mikael: Quality of the Eclipse Marketplace Plugins
  • Marcel reaching out to providers with Error Reporting; discussions with Ian
  • Mikael meeting Mike in Ottawa next week, will report on the outcome

Wayne: IP Due Diligence Changes

• Wayne: New IP Due Diligence Changes
  • Wayne's writing some blogs now; would like to get pushed out by March - Type A or B due diligence
  • Type A just checks for license compatibility; goal is having this done by projects themselves (with help of tools like FOSSology, IP team helping out until tools are ready).
    • Laid some groundwork for integration with IPZilla, eg monitor and drop reports there
    • Hoping to get to full automation by end of the year
    • Looking for incremental improvements as more and more projects adopt it
  • Type B: A plus provenance check
    • Projects start with Type A in incubation - may switch to type B (or not) when graduating
    • Projects can mix, eg multiple type A releases followed by a yearly type B release
    • Picked a couple of projects already doing type A, rolling out en-large this quarter
  • Release process is a separate, related topic.

Doug: Eclipse Two

• Doug: Eclipse Two
  • See https://cdtdoug.ca/2016/12/31/looking-forward-to-2017/ experimenting with Electron
  • Busy with project stuff until March, exposing to the Community now and see where it goes
  • Looking at an IDE on Electron to go beyond VS Code which is just an editor
  • Trying to get hold of some trends in the industry before others do it (especially in the Eclipse and Embedded communities)
    • Lightweight, not coupled to IResource; advanced visualizations and tools like TraceCompass, Android, Modeling...
    • Qt has its own IDE, Adacore has its own, Andmore is dead ... time to try something new, but will only work if Community forms around it
  • Relationship to the ide-dev and ui guideline stuff ?
    • Those are still classic Eclipse - same people, not really growing, thus tried something new ... all depends on where Community takes it
    • MichaelS: As Eclipse insiders, we tend to question too much ... many users are still just happy getting work done with Eclipse.
    • "Heavy" plugins inside Eclipse duplicate much. Using the VS Code architecture, the IDE becomes more replaceable for mix-and-match of components from various sources...
    • Doug: Working on integrating live language server in CDT, likely based on libclang
    • Michael: Could there be a universal data model for languages including type hierarchy ?
    • Doug: LSP is an extensible protocol. It's going to grow into this.
    • CONCLUSION: Would work towards a virtual meet-up, but Doug has no time until March; until then, everything is on Github, feel free to join in

PMC Rep 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:	Gary Xue
DTP:	Brian Payton	Linda Chan
Eclipse:	Dani Megert	Mike Wilson
Modeling:	Ed Merks	Eike Stepper
Mylyn:	Steffen Pingel	Mik Kersten
RT:	Christian Campo	Tom Watson
SOA:	Adrian Mos	Marc Dutoo
Technology:	Gunnar Wagenknecht	Wayne Beaton
Tools:	Doug Schaefer	Alex Kurtakov
WTP:	Carl Andersen	Neil Hauge
LocationTech:	Jim Hughes
IoT:	Julien Vermillard

Next Meeting

• Architecture Council/Meetings/February 9 2017