Difference between revisions of "DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 16-Aug-2006"

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• International +1 314-655-1411
• North America +1 877-422-0035 (toll free)
• Passcode: 764918

Attendees

• IBM - Dave Dykstal, Dave McKnight, Kushal Munir
• (Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orús - vacation)
• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber

Agenda

• Our top goals
  • Grow the Communities - active users and adopters --> tutorial, docs, mailinglist help
  • Get the APIs Right --> enable public API discussion --> ISV docs, Wiki API discussion, [api] bugzilla's
  • Get our Processes in place --> JUnit, nightly builds, infocenter, update site
• Latest News
  • Martin -- Added Mutex; I-builds fixed; Discussions with Buckminster; Simple renamings
  • DaveD -- Signon without password
  • DaveM -- Some hi-pri bugs fixed
  • Kushal -- Refactorings checked in;
  • Javier -- vacation
  • Other News --
• Upcoming Work
  • What can we achieve till the 1.0 release?
    • 111 bugs open, not counting enhancements (See "Reporter vs. Severity" on the Bug Process page)
    • 3 P1 bugs, 17 P2 bugs open - most of them since 4 weeks (See "Assignee vs. Priority" on the Bug Process page)
    • Team Support is almost totally broken and mostly untested
    • > 700 Javadoc errors (Preferences > Compiler > Javadoc > Report errors, Missing tags)
      • To be fixed manually!
      • Get rid of implementation comments (reference to interface comments instead) wherever possible
    • Jakarta-commons, WR Terminalview? Junit tests, tutorials
    • 5 weeks = 25 days until RC0; 4 weeks = 20 days after, for "planned & coordinated testing + fixing"
    • bugfix rate to-date is 1 "hard" one or 3 "easy" ones per day
    • What do we expect from M4? -> Growing community by a stable release available through Update Manager
    • What do we expect from 1.0? -> Growing community by something reliable to base on
      • Will need to communicate intended refactorings between 1.0 and 2.0 early
      • Keep the RSE 2.0 Planning page up-to-date
      • For Refactorings after 1.0, we'll need migration docs
    • No more architectural changes unless absolutely necessary
      • Package moves are ok (Easy through "Organize Imports")
      • Method moves are ok (But need to be communicated)
      • Simple Renamings are ok (But need to be communicated)
      • Addition/removal of methods is ok (Removal needs to be communicated)
      • Can we make the Persistence Provider UI-less?
      • Focus on API clarification, making APIs smaller (internal) (less API means less migration docs in 1.0)
  • Refactorings
    • [cleanup] vs. [refactoring] in commit comments
      • Use [refactoring] for moving and renaming
      • Use [cleanup] for fixes in docs or implementation, that do not change the structure
    • Who's maintaining MikeB's Change Map (bug 150548)
    • Discuss before implement
    • SubSystemConfiguration -> SubSystemFactory?
      • 248 matches for "SystemFactory" (case insensitive, not whole word) - extension points, docs, local variables
      • 963 matches for "factory" (case sensitive, whole word) - 374 of these in comments, with "subsystem" on the same line
      • 141 matches for "factories" (case sensitive, whole word) - 61 of these in comments
      • Java search: 50 declarations of "*SubSystemConfiguration*" types
      • 330 matches for "subsystem configuration" in comments
      • Ultimate goals:
        • separate the factory from the configuration, such that ISVs that re-use an existing factory can only implement the configuration but not the factory
        • ISVs which do their own factory will have to implement both factory and the config
        • allow headless launch, connect and use of services through a UI-less extension point for (factory? configuration?)
    • Mutex: which package to move to?
    • Shell Parsers: which package to move to?
  • API Things
    • Service Error Reporting - bug 149472 - DaveD
    • Parallel Services - Martins Mutex to be applied to FTP; bug 142478 all queries in background - DaveM
    • SystemRegistry.createHost for Javier
      • bug 150168 dont commit immediately - DaveD
      • bug 150265 allow specifying subsystem types - DaveM
    • Making stuff internal - ssh, ftp: Martin
    • Obsolete API that's in the Platform now (ActionSets, rseConfigDefaults) --> See RSE 2.0 Planning page
  • Bug Work - please observe priorities
    • Open bugs: P1, P2 bugs, API bugs, Open with Patch,
  • Legal: JUnit (Some IBM signoffs needed, but not too hard); Jakarta-commons (TBD aug.24 latest); WR Terminalview
• Other items
  • Keeping Tutorial up-to-date vs. review at the end of the release process
  • Manual test plans - in work by Martin
  • EFS feature, Examples feature to be created by Martin
• Free discussion -- feelings, comments, critics

Action Items

• Last Meeting Action Items
• DaveD - JUnit legal, Service Error Reporting API, SystemRegistry API. Check collapsing persistence Properties nodes to fewer files. Compile a list of suggestions for making classes / packages internal.
• DaveM - bug fixing (download-upload P1); get rid of Service calls on UI thread; hygiene changes
• Kushal - refactoring checkin, BUG TRIAGE, bug fixing; review & get rid of rseConfigDefaults
• Martin - Move pattern parsing to core, EFS & Examples features, build scripts, Manual test plan, API Review, Jakarta-commons, WR-terminalview; Review if IShellService is sufficient for terminal
• Javier - vacation; hook up with Scott Lewis once SD is committed
• Everyone - List obsolete API on RSE 2.0 Planning page; Mark hygiene changes as [cleanup] in commit comment

Next Meeting

• DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 23-Aug-2006 at 9.30am Toronto
• Open DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 6-Sep-2006 at 9am PST