DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 17-Dec-2008

Meeting Title:	TM Committer Meeting
Date & Time:	Wednesday Dec 17, 2008 at 1700 UTC / 12pm Toronto HTML | iCal
Dial-in:	Martin to call everybody by Skype Interested Parties ping martin.oberhuber on Skype Chat for getting added to the call.

Backup dial-in: International +44 (0)1452 567588 / Freephone +1 (866) 6161738 / UK 08712460713 / Passcode: 0587322148 #

Skype dial-in: martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (or david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight, kevin.j.doyle, xuan.chen886, eugenetarassov, michael_scharf, uwe.stieber, radoslav.gerganov, wrsfburton, anna_dushistova.

Attendees

This meeting is free for everyone to attend. It's a service of the TM developers and committers to community, fostering exchange of upcoming news, status and asking questions. Committers are expected to attend.

Agenda

Last Meetings

• Last DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 3-Dec-2008
• Last DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 26-Nov-2008
• Skype Call Quality - excellent this time

Update on RSE Status

TM 3.0.2

• Post-mortem

TM 3.1 Big Rocks

• TM 3.1 Big Rocks / New Features - See also the TM 3.1 plan
  • See also the TM and RSE FAQ
• Martin:
  • bug 185925 RSE Synchronisation (GSOC contribution)
  • bug 256581 SSH performance improvement
  • bug 227750 IRSEInteractionProvider
  • bug 224465 releng based on CBI
  • bug 257402 get rid of CDT non-API use
  • bug 227207 threaded FTP download
  • bug 196337 Local terminal connector
• Rado:
  • bug 196176 bug 181458 bug 153652 SWT deferred drag&drop
  • bug 242381 bug 239432 bug 231431 WinCE processes subsystem, bring WinCE to maturity
• DaveM:
  • bug 253481 get rid of Platform non-API use
  • bug 158770 bug 160100 do not use Projects to cache RSE tempfiles (due to case sensitivity and charset differences)
  • bug 245260 UI Preference to support different RSE tempfiles caches for different users / ports on the same host
  • bug 174495 Multiple subsystems of the same kind under 1 host (e.g. ftp files + dstore files)
  • bug 212742 Utility to send commands without receiving output
  • bug 176461 API to expand Systemview nodes to arbitrary level (specifying a path)
  • bug 218227 contribute a "Show in RSE" action to project explorer
  • bug 203001 support remote folder compares
• DaveD:
  • bug 222380 bug 239158 merging subsystems on import
  • bug 176490 improve connection property and wizard pages
  • bug 193477 link-with instead of lock icon in details view toolbar
  • bug 169422 Eclipse conform table sort icons
  • bug 225320 Equinox Secure Storage for RSE passwords
  • bug 244172 bug 233748 Persistence Provider Performance
  • bug 192970 deterministic mnemonics everywhere
  • bug 148977 propose default filter names
  • bug 153249 launch-shell contextmenu on filter nodes
• Michael:
  • bug 185348 Terminal API
  • bug 209875 allow capturing terminal output
  • bug 196462 optional fixed-width terminal
• Anna:
  • bug 181517 Remotecdt commands before application launch / before opening a shell or terminal
  • bug 164959 API for IHostShell#waitFor(), IHostShell#writeToShellAndWait()
• Kevin:
  • bug 245039 migrate actionSets to commands
  • bug 185925 bugfix RSE Sync GSOC contribution
  • bug 168000 remote search folder editing
  • bug 214403 remote search features
• Xuan:
  • bug 225211 support for WAR archives
  • bug 196317 bug 199858 bug 142184 some RSE logging should go into a hidden log rather than the PDE Errorlog (investigate java.util.logging / commons logging)
  • bug 254129 bug 172650 Galileo basic activity definitions
  • Add Unittests (SWTBot)
• 3.1 Deferred Big Rocks / Features
  • none currently

TM 3.1 Current status

• TM 3.1m4 officially due on Monday Dec 29 -- Martin can release on Dec 23 -- need a candidate ready by Friday Dec 19 !
• 3.1M3 Assigned Open bugs - AI Everyone reassign target milestone as appropriate
• Severity Major open bugs, High Priority open bugs, DSDP/TM/3.0 Known Issues and Workarounds
• Many patches on bugzilla, feel free to commit to 3.1 stream... avoid too many patches
  • Community contributions: 38 Open bugs with patches right now, should apply before patches get outdated (see also the Bug Process Page for a query)

Individual Status

• Anna: Finished Telnet Terminal Rework, wants patch reviewed -- AI Martin review
• DaveD: Finishing IBM stuff, triage of 3.1m3 bugs and 3.1 big rocks on friday, want fix backlog
• DaveM: Looking at Search OutOfMemory issue
• Kevin: Verifying 3.0.2 stuff
• Xuan: Verifying 3.0.2 stuff - planning to fix Junit issue / bugs next week
• Martin: RXTX this week; RSE-build/releng next week, big rock bugs after: bug 227750 IRSEInteractionProvider, bug 239230 Early startup
• Rado: Cancel-copy, WinCE, bug 196176 - Deferred drag&drop SWT

Other Stuff

• bug 238574 Website Revamp - image from the Community is good, need some time to revamp the contents - AI DaveD next week
  • Improve homepage at least, use the Community photoshopped screenshot; PDT, Mylyn are nice

Community Feedback and Status

• Community contributions
  • Patrick Juhl - SSH Tunnel - no news. In JSch Session.setPortForwardingL() there seems to be an incompatibility between Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4 (according to JSch mailing list). SSH Tunnel being used by Collabnet Cubit
  • bug 196337 - TM Local Terminal Connector - waiting on fix for CDT Spawner
  • Freescale contributions to be reviewed - bug 247876 apply host to project; bug 247878 systemHostCombo with subsystems; bug 247879 project cache for RSE host settings
  • bug 236205 Generic Display subsystem (as a host for vnc etc)

Old Stuff

• bug 240991 Startup creates Display on Worker Thread
  • Workarounds seem to be good for now. Martin would prefer experimenting with IRSEInteractionProvider in HEAD

• Unittests
  • bug 230917 [regression] Some DStore Archive Testcases fail -- AI Xuan look at
  • Abbot pretty much dead -- looking at SWTBot now

• Findbugs and other cleanup
  • Broken Links in Docs: Xenu's LinkSleuth

• Quality, Backlog and Unit Tests
  • Remember our 2-fix-per-week / 3 unittests-per-milestone plan
  • Current situation is on this bugzilla report

Cleanup Work

• Unittests, unittests, unittests! -- ideally write an accompanying unittest for every bugfix
• Migration Notes (for 2.0 / for 1.0?)
• Review and improve Userdocs; we have several open bugs here
• Review and improve Javadocs; lots still missing, unclear, duplicated
• Fix broken hyperlinks in the docs, fix HTML/XML errors (which can make the indexer not work)
• Get rid of compiler warnings wherever possible
• Run Findbugs -- Update site on http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse, Quickdocs by Rado in tm-dev E-Mail
  • Question about filtering false positives posted on fb-discuss link
• Stuff for 3.1
  • API Tooling Javadocs(@noextend and friends) - cannot limit existing API more than it was before, unless it was textually documented already, but can deprecate stuff, even in 3.0.1.

Vacations

• Martin monday Dec 8 (public holiday)
• DaveD, Martin last week of dec and 1st week of Jan

Action Items

• Last meeting: DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 3-Dec-2008
• Last DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 26-Nov-2008
• Everyone find/triage "big rock" bugs for 3.1 and increase priority / set target milestone (may decrease priority on others).
• Martin create API internal bugs; release 3.0.2; review Anna's patch; old review bug 196176 Rado's deferred D&D; new Builder until 3.1M4; bug 227750 Display in non-UI write fix until 3.1M4; Run performance tests for bug 236065 IFileService improvements; Critical EFS bugs;
• Xuan: old Look at bug 230917 Archive Handler Unittests
• DaveD bug 238574 Website revamp; old get rid of 3.0 assigned open bugs;
• DaveM old bug 199596 Read-Only attribute doesn't always update IRemoteFile;

Next Meeting

• Next DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 7-Jan-2009 (2 weeks after)
• Next DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 21-Jan-2009 (4 weeks after)