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== March 1st, 2016 ==

=== Attendees ===

# Alvaro Sanchez-Leon (Ericsson)
# Marc Dumais (Ericsson)
# Mikhail Khodjaiants (Mentor)
# Doug Schaefer (QNX)
# Jeff Johnston (RedHat)
# Marc Khouzam (Ericsson)

=== Minutes ===
* CDT 8.8.1 release
** Went well.  Next stop CDT 9.0/Neon!
* CDT Summit and Hackathon https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/summitecon2016
** EclipseCon is next week!  14 attendees signed up for CDT Summit.
* Breakpoint improvement patch
** Mikhail had a problem with his computer.  Will try to recover the patch.
** Can we show target breakpoint only if there is more than one?
* Reverse debugging with btrace
** CQ was approved and corresponding code committed
** Marc K has been doing cleanup on it with help of Ravitheja (the contributor)
*User knowing why buttons are disabled (e.g., reverse debug, debug new executable, connect, etc)
** Doing the Reverse Debug review reminded that user don't know that reverse debug is not enable with non-stop; all they see is the button greyed out, which does not help them know why.
** Doug thinks greying out buttons is frustrating to users and that if the button does not apply is should not be shown
*** We could do this but there is also a general Eclipse pattern that should be changed
*** Not showing buttons can also be confusing if the user does not understand why in some cases the button shows and other not
** Using the hover (doesn't work for context-menu?)
*** Already an improvement if the button is greyed out.  Does not help for context-menu
** Enabling button and failing it with a message
*** Not necessarily better
** Furthermore, the launch dialogue should not show non-compatible options.
*** The problem was that we didn't know GDB's version at that time
*** We should use the GDB version
**** If GDB is part of the toolchain, then we can do it easily
**** If not, then we could update the launch dialog based on what the user specifies dynamically in that same dialog.
** This will need more discussion
* RCPTT for UI testing
** Alvaro is trying things out using the standalone debugger
** Can be run manually or automatically using maven
** Difficult to troubleshoot when things don't work even for failing test cases
** Recording is much easier than SWTBot but troubleshooting is harder
* Improvements to the OS Resources view
** Teo has been doing nice improvements with reviews from Marc D
** Support for attaching to a process from that view https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn90#OS_Resources_View
** Improving list of processes user is given when trying to attach
* Improvement to automatically download remote binary instead of using a local one
** Feature of GDB 7.10 that there is a patch for CDT
** Concerns about what happens if remote binary is stripped or connection is slow
** Review continues https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/67369/
* CDT 9.0 progress https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/APIBreakages
** Patch for removing CDI is hard to review
** Jonah has shown he knows what he is doing; by explaining his steps, we could feel comfortable enough to submit
** Need to get this done ASAP