BIRT PMC Minutes - Monday, December 8, 2008

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Meeting

Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 10am Pacific.

Attendees

• Wenfeng Li - BIRT PMC Lead - Actuate Corporation
• Paul Clenahan - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation
• Mike Fox - BIRT PMC - IBM Corporation
• Scott Rosenbaum - BIRT PMC - Innovent Solutions
• Jason Weathersby - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation

BIRT 2.3 SR2 Development (Spring Maintenance Release)

BIRT 2.3 SR2 (BIRT 2.3.2) development continues, with 296 Bugzilla items currently scheduled for the release.

General Information for BIRT 2.3 SR2

BIRT 2.3 SR2 is the second maintenance release for BIRT 2.3. It is part of the coordinated Service Release for the Ganymede project. More information on the coordinated release can be found in the Service Release section of the Ganymede pages.

BIRT 2.3 SR2 is scheduled for a February 25, 2009 release date.

The designation for this release is BIRT 2.3 SR2, with the version number as BIRT 2.3.2.

The Eclipse BIRT Project Development Plan for 2.3.2 is available. The Milestone schedule for the release is available in the Service Release timeline section of the Ganymede project page (BIRT is a "+2" project in this schedule).

For a list of bugs assigned to this release, refer to Bugzilla: BIRT 2.3 SR2 Bugs assigned in Bugzilla

BIRT 2.5 Development

We continue to work on a draft plan for the 2.5 release. We now anticipate posting a draft before the year end.

As always, if anyone in the community has input, please create a Bugzilla item.

General Information for BIRT 2.5

The June 2009 release of BIRT will be BIRT 2.5. Detailed planning has not be finalized although, some provisional planning has been completed via Bugzilla. To review, refer to Bugzilla using Target = 2.5 and Keyword "Plan"

BIRT 2.5 will be part of the Galileo Simultaneous Release.

Events

Webinar Series on BIRT Exchange:

BIRT Exchange has hosted a series of technical webinars on BIRT. For archived and other upcoming webinars see the Webinar Page on BIRT Exchange.

Other Upcoming Events:

• Devoxx 2008 on December 8th - 12th 2008 - Antwerp, Belgium - Integrating BIRT Reporting into Applications
• JAX 2008 on Spring, 2009 (Note: This conference has been rescheduled from it's original October 2008 date) - San Jose, CA - Introduction to BIRT 2.3

Articles

Jason is updating (if needed) and posting a number of BIRT articles on BIRT Exchange. For example:

BIRT Web Service ODA Article

Check BIRT Exchange periodically for additional articles.

In additon, a full list of major articles can be found on the Wiki page for BIRT Project Articles.

Other articles, tips and techniques, demos and other resoures can be found on the BIRT Exchange community site.