Gemini/Meetings/Minutes Oct 11 2011

Gemini Meeting - Tues Oct 11, 2011

Attendees: Mike Keith, Tom Ware, Krum Tsvetkov, Shaun Smith, Violeta Georgieva, Lazar Kirchev, Juergen Kissner

1. Subproject Updates
   • JPA
     • Released 1.0.0, good feedback so far
     • Adoption of the project is growing, with a number of people willing to contribute
     • Krum to look at fixing the tests
       • run as part of the build, controlled by Tycho
       • finer grained control of bundle loading order
     • Will probably schedule a dot release sometime before the end of the year to include some of the new features people as asking for
     • Add a capability provided by the JPA impl for clients to be able to require
   • DBAccess
     • Did a simultaneous 1.0.0 release with JPA on Sept 30
     • Will focus next on adding support for MySQL
     • Had discussion about bundling options again
       • Either have a separate bundle for the shared code or package it in each of the DB-specific bundles
       • Some JDBC drivers currently ship with OSGi bundle support, others don't
       • Would ideally like the JDBC producers to take the code from DBAccess and use it to provide their own support
       • In the short term we need to provide consumers with JDBC bundle support
       • Juergen to decide on a strategy that is both easy to build and maintain and easy for users to consume
   • Management
     • Lazar (new committer) is going to be working on getting a proper build in place
     • Need to add some tests since there does not appear to be any
     • Question about whether OSGi CT tests can be used - don't know if it has been resolved within Eclipse yet
     • Action: Mike to find out what the current state of OSGi licensing is
     • New JMX features are coming out in the next spec
       • David B is working on this, and Alex Alves may be helping with the tests
       • Action: Mike to talk to Alex to see if he would be interested in donating any tests that he writes to Gemini Mgmt as well as the CT
   • Web
     • Working on a few bugs, none critical
     • Web site areas and wiki was updated with some examples
     • Preparing for EclipseCon demo combining Web with Naming
2. Common Repo
   • Common Gemini P2 site now available to all projects
   • Used for project releases, not builds or milestones
3. Git Migration
   • JPA is considering moving to Git
   • DBAccess has already requested a Git repo
   • Not a priority for Management right now