DSDP/TML/Agenda03Apr07

Minutes of the first open TmL meeting Date: 03 April 2007, 8:00 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)

Attendees

• Christian Kurzke (TmL project lead, Motorola)
• Mauren Brenner (TmL project co-lead, Eldorado/Motorola)
• Fabio Fantato (TmL developer, Eldorado/Motorola)
• Jefferson Silva (Eldorado project manager)
• Norbert Leser (Nokia)
• Ewa Matejksa (PalmSource)

Agenda

• Welcome new participants
• History and background of TmL project
• Describe current focus areas for TML
• How TML fits into the wider Eclipse ecosystem, and how we cooperate with established projects.
• Gather interest of call participants
• Round Table

Detailed Summary

• Project background/History: Motorola is using Eclipse internally to develop code for various Linux based projects, internal tools and use of CDT.
• Project history: initial proposal June 2006, graduated to an official project in January 2007.
• Project goals: a more specialized, vertical project on top of CDT, covering issues related to mobile devices industry, which are not covered by CDT.

First priority of missing functionality is a simulation/emulation environment, like what we have with UEI ([[1]]) in the J2ME development world.

• Motivations for the emulator framework:

  * support different types of emulators, e.g. QEmu, User-mode Linux; 
  * general framework with a Linux-based reference implementation; 
  * emulator framework is an abstract layer that can be used by different emulators.

• Other objectives of framework are

  * screen interaction, 
  * wireless toolkit including simulation of Bluetooth,
  * SMS network back-end etc.; 
  * support to development of peer-to-peer applications; 
  * abstract communication features away from emulators and simulate network infrastructure.

• Emulator framework based on extension points.
• Keep communicating with Symbian, Nokia, ARM, PalmSource.
• Invite more people to participate and define more use cases as well as review the existing ones.
• Have a good collection of use cases by the end of Q2 2007.
• Eclipse integration.
• Application packaging and interaction with the emulators.
• Two areas that need more effort but must be prioritised: (1) support for specific device chipsets, e.g. GPS, Bluetooth; inject GPS events by means of an Eclipse view etc.; (2) simulation of mobile phone network infrastructure.
• Commonalities between TmL proposal and CDT 4.0 regarding support to multiple toolchains and possible contribution to CDT instead of TmL.
• Keep in mind that TmL must support developers using both Linux and Windows hosts.
• Use cases will be posted in the wiki, but will be moved to CVS as soon as possible in order to keep a change history.
• The first priority is to have some code contributed, with a consistent API.
• Plans: have working code at the end of 2007 to catch Eclipse train in the summer 2008.
• TmL open meeting will happen every two weeks; for the time being it will be kept at the same time and day of week, but may be offset by a week due to a conflict with the TM committers call.
• Next open meeting: Tuesday 17 April, 8:00 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time).