DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 30-Jan-2007

Meeting Title:	TM Committer Phone Meeting
Date & Time:	Tuesday Jan 30, 2007 at 1700 UTC
Dial-in:	International +44 (0)1452 567588 North America +1 (866) 6161738 (toll free) UK National 08712460713 Passcode: 0587322148 #

MartinO to start conference call - please dial in using the numbers above.
Please be available for Skype Chat in parallel to the call. MartinO will start Skype chat just prior to call.
Skype fallback dial-in - only if less than 5 participants: martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (or david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight, kushal.munir, javier.montalvoorus, tedatteddotnet, michael_scharf, and uwe.stieber.

Attendees

• IBM - Dave Dykstal, Dave McKnight, Kushal Munir
• Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orús
• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber, Uwe Stieber, Michael Scharf, Ted Williams

This is an Open call, so anyone else can join (though we expect the talk to be interesting for committers only).

Notes

• Our top goals
  • Grow the Communities - active users and adopters --> tutorial, docs, mailinglist help: being responsive
  • 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	50%	Created project plan; PluginFest; Worked with Platform on ssh prefs; Added symlinks to EFS; mail&news; EclipseCon	50%
DaveD	80%	Preparations in Persistence for User Actions	80%
DaveM	70%	EclipseCon; Bugs	70%
Kushal	0%	Encodings; starting API for Javier, EFS	100%
Javier	20%		20%
Ted	0%		0%
Uwe	0%		0%
Michael	0%		0%

Upcoming Work

• Top priority this week is work on the feature "big rocks" in bugzilla, for RSE 2.0 Planning
  • Martin & DaveM work on EclipseCon tutorial
  • add unit tests for all new or modified API
• New Europa Requirements from Planning Council Meeting 23-Jan-2007
  • Written ramp down policy by Feb. 23rd --> AI Martin: wait for what Platform does and adapt it
  • Avoiding non-API from other projects
    • AI create bugzillas for getting rid of Platform Internal access and hook them up with a plan item; Europa requires that these are in the release notes and there is a plan for addressing these in the next major release
    • AI re-enable compiler warnings for non-API; fix still open compiler warnings
  • Report Strings for translation --> AI DaveD report to Bjorn
  • Update features and include the words "end-user" and "extender" --> AI Martin wait for Platform and adapt
  • Update Wiki to explan whether SDK contains examples --> AI Martin wait for Platform and adapt
• For bugs, see the bug process page (assigned to inbox, plan items, status new, hi-priority, API, open with patch)
• RSE 2.0 Planning
  • 1. Make APIs usable for clients, harden the APIs, improve documentation
    • Make stuff internal
      • SystemView, SystemFilterReferenceAdapter, Subsystem Impls
    • UI/Non-UI separation (Condition of Satisfaction: be able to do a headless launch; try to reduce number of plugins? - DaveM be able to use service layer without profiles, persistence etc.; DaveM could envision service layer as part of ECF or similar; put subsystem.files together with subsystem.files)
    • Be able to do ssh non-ui only? Would need an API for password / passphrase prompting in RSE core.
    • SystemType improvements; retargetable actions/commands;
    • read-only flags [java.io: cannot change a file to writable] want a capability API for services to report if they can set r-o or not? - Not yet, just report an error.
    • timestamp, ro-flags: still TBD for ssh and ftp
    • Streams for IHostShell, IFileService - upload already allows an InputStream; download will need new API; may be a problem for dstore since the agent "pushes" the file; ftp allows canceling the download
    • Asynchronous API/callbacks; How is the client informed about job completion? Event? Callback? Progressmonitor? - Progressmonitor is created by the job typically, so we have no control over the progress [could use a SubProgressMonitor]? Use Java5 Concurrency classes?
    • IHostShell changes for Terminal;
  • 2. Make EFS work
    • Kushal looking at it - problem is the strictness of resource locking / scheduling rules
    • What about putting EFS directly on top of IFileService without using the cache? Might avoid scheduling rules; might require further extensions of IFileService
  • 3. Play well with the Platform
    • get rid of platform "internal" access; this may also mean getting rid of customized extension points for adding actions
    • retargetable actions/commands; capabilities; icu4j; Orbit; ssh prefs; drag&drop
  • 4. Improve overall quality (unit tests; special characters; long filenames; background jobs; parallel access; logging; ...)
  • 5. New Features
    • Import/Export & User actions; Terminal-in-rse; Persistence-as-xmlfile; Service enablement
• Think about limiting the API: Make APIs internal along the way of updating documentation, and making Unit tests, we'll see some API we want "internal".
  • Remove RSE Performance Logging; place contents of logging into core
  • Reduce number of plugins (once UI/Non-UI separation is done, have e.g. ssh.core and ssh.ui but not more)
• Add Montavista shell processes subsystem
• Fix N-builds (second workspace, use Ted's scripts)
  • Orbit bundles to be added differently
  • Unittests to run every night
  • Version Number Changes to be done by Martin
  • Copyright Year Changes
• Compiler Warnings
  • Good progress, please continue. Most warnings are javadoc warnings now. See the Committer Howto for settings
    • 109 -> 113 -> 113 -> 3 connectorservice.dstore
    • 176 -> 265 -> 161 -> 12 rse.core
    • 474 -> 558 -> 558 -> 94 files.ui
    • 637 -> 662 -> 662 -> 23 services (javadoc)
    • 221 -> 250 -> 248 -> 27 subsystems.files.core
    • 1622 -> 346 -> 293 -> 192 rse.ui (mostly javadoc)
• Quality
  • Docs are a high priority. Add ISV Javadoc where it is still missing or incorrect; review, and improve all docs

Communications

• General code cleanup -- to do right after M4:
  • Get rid of unused icons, e.g. rse.ui/icons/full/obj16/system390_obj.gif, IBM_logo.gif
  • Get rid of commented out source code
  • Get rid of unused properties (chkpii)
• Change Requests
• Vacations, Holidays etc.
  • DaveD going to Chicago end of the month; Florida in February for a week
• Free discussion -- feelings, comments, critics

Action Items

• Last Meeting Action Items
• DaveD - Remove RSE Performance Logging; Refactoring UI/Non-UI; Persistence; Bugzilla bug for User Actions Contribution until Jan.31st; Bugs & Unit tests;
• DaveM - EclipseCon; Bugs & Unit tests; finish permission API; download Streams API;
• Kushal - Encodings; EFS; Talk to DaveD re Comm Server; Bugs & Unit Tests
• Martin - Check r/o flags and timestamps for ssh; Commit Montavista contrib; Fix build; EclipseCon tutorial; Bugs & Unit Tests; Plan Item Specifications; Personal Interviews via Skype; Work on RSE 2.0 Planning; TM and RSE FAQ, improve Wiki and Website (how to contribute);
• Javier - Check r/o flags and timestamps for ftp; FTP passive mode; Bugs & Unit Tests,
• Ted -
• Michael - Terminal Performance Improvements
• Uwe -

Next Meeting

• DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 6-Feb-2007 at 1600 UTC
• Open DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 7-Feb-2007 at 9am PST