E4/Resources/Meeting/28-Nov-2008

Meeting Title:	E4 Resources meeting
Date & Time:	Friday Nov 28, 2008 at 1600 UTC / 11am EST / 8am PST iCal,ATOM News Feed,HTML
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Attendees

• Call is Open, Anybody can join.

Agenda/Notes

Feel free to edit, but not during the meeting

Review of Action Items

• Last Meeting: E4/Resources/Meeting/14-Nov-2008
  • Serge commit his patches to e4 resources
  • Martin bug 255371 for Modeled Preferences
  • Terry bug 255425 file bug for Project Creation Working Copy (transaction)
  • John find or file bug for separating resources workspace from Platform.instanceLocation

Provisioning

• CVS Repo done, status of CBI builds?

Current work items (master bugs)

• bug 252647 - Master plan item for e4 flexible resources (referenced on e3.5 project plan)
  • bug 252996 - Serge: Resource Tree Filters - ready to commit to e4 for review
  • bug 245412 - Martin: Physically nested projects - many related bugs e.g. James Blackburn bug 253898 LaunchManager
  • bug 233939 - Martin: Alias Management for symlinks - James Blackburn filed bug 253912 common IResource for all aliases
  • bug 229633 - Serge: Linked resources with relative path / variable-based; grouping feature - will start committing soon
  • bug 253705 - Szymon: Support for "branched" file systems (EFS for iSeries) - no coding yet but collected some iFS material
  • bug 255425 - Terry: Support for transactions when modifying ProjectDescription
• Metadata: Sharing/Linking/Inheritance of project settings? Pluggable Project Persistence? What to do for Build stuff
  • Modeled Preferences
• Faceted Project Framework - Eric Frey been looking at it, looks very interesting on the surface, would like to see it in CDT
• Lightweight Resources: Terry Parker (tried TPTP now for profiling, now using JProfiler (slows down by 5-10x) - got pulled off into something else
• Remote File System: Chris Recoskie (currently releasing PTP/RDT, will jump on e4 later, no news)
  • bug 253777 Support async programming patterns in Core
  • EFS Performance: tons of stat requests, should Resource layer do more caching or will we want a caching EFS implementation such as Hadoop DFS?
• Workspace Concept Separation
  • John separate workspace from instance area
  • bug 245405 workspace description files for pushing workspace prefs to team members / facilitated on-boarding
  • bug 245399 multi-workspace

It looks like we're building things bottom up.

Discussion

• E4/Resources/Definitions of Terms what is a workspace?

Doug's Notes

• Attendees: Chris R, Szymon B, Serge B, Ken H, Eric F, Doug S, Martin O
• Serge
  • commit rights done, filters checked in, adds coming
  • question on build. which base line platform
  • need a CVS log
    • Martin see if he can use his CVS search from TM
• Szymon
  • Would be use to set up a more real time communication channel like IRC
    • Doug has IRC blocked but will ask to unblock
• Martin
  • Master bug created
• Chris
  • Looking at EFS changes to support external tools
    • Needs to create a bug
  • Asynchronous discussion
    • Could be used for staged loading of project info
    • How far do we take asynchronicity
• Doug still needs to understand RESTful APIs
• Martin looking at EclipseCon talks for e4 resources
• Eric
  • Very interested in the project facets and has done some prototyping

Action Items

• Martin to look at CVS Search for us
• Doug to work on getting people on IRC
• Chris to raise bug on EFS changes for external tools
• Martin to co-ordinate EclipseCon talks

Next Meeting

• Next E4/Resources/Meeting/12-Dec-2008 (2 weeks after)