RT/meetings/PMC Minutes 081105

Attending: Jeff Code9, Thomas Watson IBM, Oliver Wolf Sopera, Christian Campo compeople, Jochen Krause Innoopract

Project status update

Swordfish

• TeamSize 5 (2 committers, 3 contributors)
• Actively writing code
• Contributors make it hard to work with Eclipse as source code repo
• Problem will get fixed with electing contributors to committers (in the next couple of weeks)
• Will make Apache ODE pluggable with Swordfish

Riena (Christian)

• published M5 today
• 10 committers (9 active) - mostly compeople, 1 Innoopract, 1 Andrena
• good progress
• release for 1.0.0 planned Q1 2009
• regular feedback from community
• remote services - OSGi 4.2 spec (rfc 119) is interesting, not sure if it fulfills all requirements
• Feedback Thomas / Jeff: it would be very useful if ECF / Riena / rfc119 had a common implementation
• current problem is that different technical approaches are not easy to integrate
• a discussion at the EclipseSummit would be very useful
• no decision on the release train has been made
• will look at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Galileo_Simultaneous_Release

Equinox (Tom)

• implementing framework stuff (
  • rfc132 - launch framework
  • rfc138 - mulitple frameworks within the same VM)
  • rfc 126 - improvements for service registry in support of rfc 119
  • console is not build into the spec of the framework itself, we may pick up an existing implementation
  • DS improvements under way, taking spec changes into account
  • scoped
  • Blueprint services will be part of the spec - discuss more one of the next calls
  • want to encourage the use of DS
• p2 stabilization, graduation of APIs

RAP (Jochen)

• UI work going on that could be interesting for Riena / e4 - will present at the summit

Planning Council

• Tom will attend the council meeting today for the first time
• invite Markus Knauer to present

Release train

• we will be trying to have a seperate packaging for the runtime projects as part of the Gallileo release

standing agenda for next meetings

• put project updates on

next meeting: f2f at EclipseSummitEurope: Wednesday at Lunch / in the early evening at the bar