Architecture Council/Meetings/January 12 2012
| Meeting Title: | Architecture Council Monthly Meeting |
| Date & Time: | Thursday January 12, 2012 at 1600 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin attention DST change HTML |  iCal
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Contents
Attendees
All AC Members are invited.
- PMC Reps please confirm attendance or list your delegate below. Every PMC is required to name a primary and backup delegate, and to ensure that one delegate attends the meeting.
| BIRT: | Wenfeng Li | Wenbin He |
| DTP: | Brian Payton | Linda Chan |
| Eclipse: | Mike Wilson | John Arthorne Boris Bokowski |
| Modeling: | Ed Merks | Cédric Brun Sven Efftinge |
| Mylyn: | Steffen Pingel | Mik Kersten |
| RT: | Jeff McAffer | Tom Watson |
| SOA: | Adrian Mos | Sebastien Gandon |
| Technology: | Gunnar Wagenknecht | Wayne Beaton |
| Tools: | Doug Schaefer | |
| TPTP: | (TBA) | |
| WTP: | Chuck Bridgham | Dave Carver Neil Hauge |
- Regrets: Oliver Cole (standing conflict), Wenfeng Li (standing conflict)
- Guest: Andrew Ross to report on Long-Term Support (LTS) initiative
Agenda / Notes
- Feel free to edit, but not during the call!
Review of Last Meeting
- Architecture Council/Meetings/December 8 2011
- Still open items moved to #Action_Items
Long-Term Support (LTS)
- Andrew Ross to explain goals, concept and current status
New Topics
Kim: Last year the Architecture of Open Source applications was released. This year the editors are working on volume II with a new set of authors and open source projects. They are looking for technical reviewers for these chapters, if you're interested let me know and I can put you in touch with the editors.
General Topics
- Updates from the Board
- git @ Eclipse progress
- Maven @ Eclipse progress
- AC Backlog
Old Topics
- Henrik Lindberg ESE proceedings are now online WhatIsInABuildESE2010
- AI zx Create Indigo report
- bug 324125 architecture diagrams - 2006 version - relationship to e4 ?
- IP Logs - Martin and Wayne - project woolsey exists and open for community, Wayne hopes get soemthing downloadable by Christmas
- Allow projects to file bugs which list collections of libraries that are used for testing (and mark these collectively as exemt prereqs)
- Couldn't distribute those libs or put them in scm, but could have them on the build server
- Allow projects to file bugs which list collections of libraries that are used for testing (and mark these collectively as exemt prereqs)
We need to reduce our bug backlog, by actually coming to a common resolution on some. Here are the most recent ones:
- DaveC would like to discuss New Committer Guidelines; Scrum / Agile techniques
- bug 288393 - Denis - Bugzilla Best Practices
- AC Bugzilla backlog
- See also Architecture Council/Open Issues for overflow items that were not discussed
- News from the EMO and Councils ?
Action Items
- Cleaned up old action items, see Architecture Council/Meetings/February 10 2011 for old stuff
- (old) Martin to add Eclipsecon meeting notes onto the wiki
- (old) Tim write up an initial wiki page with information for people to standardize on the tracing API
- Martin revise the AC Wiki to make it easier to find the New Member Process. More links on homepage. More usage of categories.
- Martin bug 315210 Make the AC mailing list open / moderated