TPTP-PMC-20090819

Logistics

Attending: Oliver, Paul, Ernest, Eugene

Any issues with previous summary?

Oliver asked if there are any known issues with this milestone.

Team got a candidate build on Monday w/o the Itanium target

There were some build changes last week by the build team but the changes not done quite in time so it did not get completely fixed up for Itanium yet.
- IBM working with Intel side to get build in place
- We are continuing the test pass with the non-Itanium containing driver and will refresh the candidate driver when the Itanium builds successfully again

There had been issues with the "all in one" target. Paul asked if those issues have been resolved.

Paul did a lookup and the build currently shows 9% complete

Eugene talked a bit about dropping bits for Helios (next June's simultaneous release)

Chris asked if we are going to be setting up parallel development or not because that release should be TPTP 4.6.3 not our current 4.6.1 for fall maintenance.
Eugene and Paul talked about how we did this last year.
Until spring maintenance was done, we simply did smoke test of the fall/spring maintenance build running on helios but did not fork a branch or do a special build with the followon driver.
Everyone agrees unless there is a technical reason that we should follow this same approach for Helios
- Want to confirm when Kathy is back next week.

We discussed the ongoing saga of trying to get Itanium systems to IBM to support the Itanium builds of TPTP.

Process continues
Team started to discuss what is likely to occur if we stay in the current limbo state.
PMC is starting to think that if the equipment bottleneck does not get resolved and arrive by some date (Thanksgiving or Christmas perhaps) that Itanium support will plan to be pulled from the next release.
- We discussed a bit who would be most upset if Itanium support disappeared
- PMC will continue to discuss and close on deadlines over the next few weeks to a month