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Architecture Council/Meetings/May 12 2011
| Meeting Title: | Architecture Council Monthly Meeting |
| Date & Time: | Thursday May 12, 2011 at 1500 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change HTML |  iCal
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Contents
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: | |
John Arthorne Boris Bokowski |
| Modeling: | Ed Merks | |
| Mylyn: | Steffen Pingel | |
| RT: | |
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| STP: | |
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| Technology: | Gunnar Wagenknecht | |
| Tools: | Doug Schaefer | |
| TPTP: | |
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| WTP: | |
Dave Carver Neil Hauge |
- Signed-up: Chris Aniszczyk, John Arthorne, Boris Bokowski, Christian Campo, Dave Carver, Linda Chan, Doug Clarke, Neil Hauge, Ed Merks, Martin O, Brian Payton, Rapicault, Mary Ruddy, Steffen Pingel, Rapicault, Mary Ruddy, Doug Schaefer, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Gary Xue
- Regrets: Oliver Cole (standing conflict), Wenfeng Li (standing conflict), Wayne Beaton, Mik Kersten, Markus Knauer, Achim Loerke, Andrew Overholt
- No-Show: Nick Boldt, Chuck Bridgham, Cédric Brun, Eugene Chan, Oisin Hurley, Kenn Hussey, Bernd Kolb, Jeff McAffer, Mike Milinkovich, Kim Moir, Michael Scharf, Tom Schindl, Darin Swanson, Antoine Toulme, Tom Watson, Jonathan West, David Williams, Mike Wilson, Oliver Wolf
Agenda / Notes
- Feel free to edit, but not during the call!
Review of Last Meeting
- Architecture Council/Meetings/April 14 2011
- Still open items moved to #Action_Items
New Topics
Updates from the Board
- What are the criteria for starting a new project at Eclipse ?
- Existing code and community;
- But sometimes existing Eclipse committers want to start something new so they don't have code yet
- Eg Orion was forced to create the code upfront
- Foundation didn't want projects that lead nowhere ... increase the chances for project to be successful
- Could go into an update to the Dev process
- AI Boris open Bugzilla
Hudson coming to Eclipse
- Pascal: Worries about Hudson coming to Eclipse, potential re-union with Jenkins and desire to not use the Eclipse Development Process
- Would like to release every week
- Ed: If they say they don't like the Process they should be more specific
- zx having some private discussions with the Jenkins guys .. might remain 2 projects though
- Looks like it's a Jenkins - Hudson thing that we can do little about .. other than reaching out and informing Jenkins what Eclipse is really about
Maven @ Eclipse progress
- zx: signing and publishing making some progress, will hopefully have some code by next call, for signing and publishing via Maven / Tycho
- bug 339915 Parent POM - not yet, zx working on a draft to send out .. signing would inherit from Parent
- bug 288644 name spaces / group ID for Maven artifacts - Dave Carver suggests org.eclipse.jdt etc as group ID, corresponding to projects
- Other related bugs bug 283745 and bug 337068
- Convert p2 repo into Maven or build with Tycho? - Dave recommends moving forward (creating guidelines)
- Pascal: Should eventually discuss whether some artifacts should be promoted to Maven Central
- Maybe a topic for later... some common usable blocks like jface, emf
- First step is getting stuff into our own Nexus repo, then publish to Central
Moving to git
- Brian P: When do projects move over, do they have to move over? How much work is the migration (for a skeleton crew)?
- Boris: Eclipse SDK thinking about moving to git after Indigo for new Dev Streams (not maintenance)
- Few teams have experience; running test builds with some bundles from git; but unclear how fast can move
- zx: BIRT looking to move after Indigo; same for Mylyn (50% in git already); CDT going right after indigo
- Neil: WTP discussions on PMC level - Dave C volunteers to contribute experience from WTP Incubator
- zx had discussed with Wayne some Workgroup / Wiki page to aid in migration
- Initially list of projects who're planning to migrate ... also collect experiences
- Dave C: There is a migration page already
- AI zx put together something
- JohnA: Should also collect some wisdom on how to proceed after migration
- eg how to work with clones on Github ... contributing back from a clone on Github is problematic since 1-way copy
- In Theory, github enables clones / contributions very easily but contributing back is very hard
- Seems to be an architectural problem with how github is set up ... it assumes the master is there
- Getting the patches is painful, but it's still better than what we had before
- Pascal: Make github the primary clone? - Not allowed by Bylaws today
- Gerrit would make things much easier (just push into Gerrit without going through Github)
- CDT very interested in Gerrit... Denis workin on it
- egit working on github related tooling for pull requests ... but may take a while
- Scope of the problem ... maybe it's not that bad after all
- Dave C topic branches might help
- CDT preparing some scripts for migration - planning to publish them, will allow others to look at
- See CDT bug 316208 contains attached scripts (Kudos to James Blackburn)
General Topics
- bug 336874 Updating to Latest Version of Libs
- Not much happened since bug was opened
- RH / Fedora trying to ship one (latest) version of each lib only, in order to get security fixes etc
- Eg some projects ship old libs even if newer ones are in Orbit like JSch
- Pascal: A timing problem .. need lib by M6 timeframe latest to get into release train
- zx thinks about some automated process to make people aware .. in general people are OK upgrading when aware
- A Registry of "who's using what from Orbit" would be a good thing .. information should be in ipzilla
- Example: If creating a new IP-Bug to ship a library, should CC projects already shipping that lib
- Should probably have a phase during the annual release in which 3rd party libs are considered (1st quarter of dev cycle .. jan latest)
- Mostly just small updates ... few brand new things
- bug 285074 - Dave Carver - Hudsonbuilder and write access to the cvs / svn repo
- Just a question of "tag before" or "tag after"
- OK to go ahead and close it - other more important things going on - don't feel to fight that battle now
- PDE Visualizer - displays dependencies between bundles - not touched currently
Old Topics
- Pascal's bug 331385 naming conventions for p2 Repos - no time for this at the moment
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
- 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
- Boris open bug for new project criteria discussion
- zx start Wiki page for collecting git migration advice and experience