E4/Resources/Meeting/6-Feb-2009

Meeting Title:	E4 Resources meeting
Date & Time:	Friday Feb 6, 2009 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

• IRC: #eclipse-e4 parallel to the meeting
• Update from yesterday's e4/Meeting Minutes/Status 20090205 call:

Review of Action Items

• Last Meeting: E4/Resources/Meeting/23-Jan-2009
• (old) Martin create SearchCVS service for e4 resources - started on database, query missing AI mail e4-dev
• (old) Martin send a proposal regarding experimental API tagging policy to the e4 mailing list - pending bug 261874 AC discussion about provisional API
• (old) Martin have Google Calendar send a meeting invite for the next meeting - pending webmaster setup in mailing list admin interface
• (old) Doug to work on getting people on IRC - pending WR IT
• (old) Doug document how users can get e4 resources (what's the required process and target platform) - AI Serge to blog and send E-Mail
• (old) Ken put references to bugs which are interesting for him into the meeting notes
• (old) Ken have somebody from Symbian Foundation comment on bug 249745 regarding their experiences with git and Mercurial
• (old) Serge to blog about how to consume his resources changes from the e4 builds
• John to show Serge's work to Kevin
• Serge to e-mail e4-dev about adding changes to more (UI) bundles in support of his resources changes
• Open items moved to #Action Items

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 - in e4 currently
  • bug 229633 - Serge: Linked resources with relative path / variable-based; grouping feature - in e4 currently
  • 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 244979 - Martin: Lazy Resources / lazy refresh
  • 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
  • bug 215261 - Chris: EFS logical/physical API
• Metadata: Sharing/Linking/Inheritance of project settings? Pluggable Project Persistence? What to do for Build stuff
  • bug 255371 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 - see bug 245399 comment 2
  • 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?

Next Meeting

• Next E4/Resources/Meeting/20-Feb-2009 (2 weeks after)