Architecture Council/Meetings/July 9 2015

Meeting Title:	Architecture Council Monthly Meeting
Date & Time:	Thursday July 9, 2015 at 1500 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change 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

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
Modeling:	Ed Merks	Cédric Brun Eike Stepper
Mylyn:	Steffen Pingel	Mik Kersten
RT:	Christian Campo	Tom Watson Doug Clarke Ian Bull
SOA:	Adrian Mos	Marc Dutoo
Technology:	Gunnar Wagenknecht	Wayne Beaton
Tools:	Doug Schaefer
WTP:	Chuck Bridgham	Neil Hauge

All Attendees

• Max Andersen, Wayne Beaton, Alex Kurtakov, Dani Megert, Martin O, Brian Payton, Michael Scharf, Eike Stepper
• Regrets: Marcel Bruch, Markus Knauer, Maximilian Kögel, Martin Lippert, Pascal Rapicault, Lars Vogel,

Agenda / Notes

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

Review of Last Meeting

• Architecture Council/Meetings/June 11 2015
• Still open items moved to #Action_Items

New Topics

• Feel free to fill in, but not during the meeting :)

Development Funding

• Wayne: Development Funding
  • Funding stuff that's common and critical for the IDE - So far: p2, Marketplace, ...
  • Umbrella bug 471462 looking for Priorities ... Javascript situation partially inspired the initiative, but not sure if that's P1
  • Looking for Process to do this

EDP Update

• Wayne: Blocker bug 463857 - please look at the bug and give feedback, are we targeting the right things ?
  • Some runtime work seems unnecessarily hindered by the EDP; simplify project creation, release reviews, continuous integration
  • Would like a complete rewrite - much effort but probably doable
  • Need a final form by mid October
  • Wayne would write the draft, but need direction first and input after the draft (and help writing sections would be appreciated)
  • HOWTO docs are too big currently ... hopefully trimming the EDP will trim the HOWTO as well

• Max: Would like to encourage (or at least allow) faster release cadence - what's the minimum necessary that needs to be done for release ?

Hackathon Concept

• Wayne: bug 471463 looking for a list of bugs that could be resolved in 2-3 hours
  • Want to get back to a habit of marking bugs bugday or similar
  • Focus people on what we need them to do ... turn more people into contributors
  • Perhaps there's many bugs that stay unadressed since we feel we'd need to get together in a room
    • For example, have LaunchBar and Docker work totether
    • AC to identify 4 "hard problems" that we'd plan addressing during EclipseCon as a "development experience"
      • Encourage the right set of people to come to the conference and participate

Next Meeting

• Architecture Council/Meetings/August 13 2015