Gemini/Meetings/Minutes Oct 8 2013

Gemini Meeting - Tues Oct 8, 2013

Attendees: Lazar, Violeta, Florian, Juergen, Mike

1. Actions from Last Meetings
   • Done
2. New members
   • Florian Waibel - New Gemini Mgmt project lead
   • Dmitry Sklyut - New Gemini Blueprint lead (not present at meeting)
3. Subproject Updates
   • Gemini JPA
     • Mike has joined a different org at Oracle and will not be able to spend as much time on it
     • Won't likely be able to put out new features in release until next year
   • Gemini DBAccess
     • Juergen has health problems and isn't able to do much on the project
   • Gemini Naming
     • New release during the summer
     • One or two bugs fixed and quick released
     • Don't anticipate any change to the project from this point on
   • Gemini Web
     • Will introduce a micro release
     • Currently working on integration with Tomcat 8 containing latest Java EE 7 APIs
     • TC 8 will likely not be ready until next year
   • Gemini Management
     • Project is up to latest version of the OSGi JMS spec
     • Only a few bugs, no feature requests at this point
     • Florian does not seem to be marked as the lead, yet
     • Action: Mike to find out if EMO was notified about new leadership
     • Hudson builds appeared to be failing (during publishing phase)
     • Added some groovy scripts (examples) at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Gemini/Management/Examples
4. Meeting Schedule
   • Opinions about meeting frequency
   • Decision that because projects are mature and have little development going on we will only meet every month or two
   • Can also cancel if nothing to discuss
   • Action: Mike to schedule next meeting and send out email to the group about reduced meeting frequency