Architecture Council/Meetings/May 21 2015

Meeting Title:	Architecture Council Monthly Meeting
Date & Time:	Thursday May 21, 2015 at 1600 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, 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

• In attendance: Max Andersen, Wayne Beaton, Marcel Bruch, Ian Bull, Christian Campo, Konstantin Kommissarchik, Denis Roy, Jonas Helming, Doug Schaefer, Martin O, Michael Scharf, Eike Stepper, Krum Tsvetkov, Gunnar Wagenknecht

Agenda / Notes

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

Review of Last Meeting

• Architecture Council/Meetings/April 9 2015
• Still open items moved to #Action_Items

New Topics

• Welcome Max Andersen (representing Red Hat as a Strategic Member)
  • Leading JBoss Tools for RH, involved with Eclipse sine 10+ years - using and contributing to many projects
  • Committer to Andmore, WTP and Dali; Couple other committers on the team (Gorkem Ercan, Rob Stryker) and working with others (Tim Fox, Alex Kurtakov, ...)
  • Interested in process implifications, and seeing what the AC can do

• Welcome Konstantin Kommisarchik
  • Leading a team at Oracle - both commercial and contributions to various projects (WTP, ...)

• Wayne: Nominations - AI Wayne take next step to contact candidates if they would be willing to join

Evangelism

• Wayne: AC to do more evangelism
  • Take part of our monthly call to talk about evangelism (blogging; conferences; stickers, swag, ...)
  • Wayne can provide resources eg couple of slides like "What is the Eclipse Foundation"
  • *not* about adding more work on AC member's plate; all about "how do we help each other" eg conferences that we visit already
  • Marcel: Not sure how well this would work ... evangelism is about going to more conferences ?
  • Wayne: Eg at Devops France made good experiences
  • Jonas: Sees always the same people at "Eclipse related" events; doesn't see much Eclipse related content on other conferences
• Jonas: How to get to a new conference as a speaker ?
  • Foundation could potentially help getting some credibility for the speaker (eg do a promo video)
  • Example: Wayne is on the selection committee for the Development Tools track at JavaOne

• First Steps: Who's speaking at which conferences ? Eg set up an event page
  • AI Wayne follow up after the minutes
  • AI Martin create an initial table on the Wiki
    • Wayne: There's http://events.eclipse.org which we could better leverage

Max: Challenges with Vertex

• Process: Release Reviews, and the 2-week process; IP Review seen as extreme overhead
• Wayne: Can help on technical items

Marcel: Error Reporting

• Works well for some projects, but apparently not well enough for others (never got in touch with the system)
• Platform accumulated around 700 different issues, but only 60 of them currently tracked in bugzilla
  • Anything we could do to help Platform with resources - at least for fixing simple issues like NPEs ?
  • In touch with Lars, and Dani (to some extent) -- busy with endgame plan, planning to look at things after Mars Release
  • Many projects just look at issues the last day of their milestone ... others (eg JDT) doing an amazing job
  • Any alternative channel reaching out to projects
• Denis: Been fairly successful with please for help (if specific, and frequent) on eclipse.org-committers
  • Max will try to find people in RH to help
• Wayne: If swag is necessary, could help out (like greatfix initiative - great success)
  • Would like to do something like greatfix every month - looking at AC to provide proposals
    • Max feels that every month might be too much (and make it even more special every year)

• Related: "Every Detail Matters for Mars" - want to make the IDE very user-focused (versus project focused)

Next Meeting

• Architecture Council/Meetings/June 11 2015