Equinox Minutes - 20080422

Attendees

• Andrew Niefer
• DJ Houghton
• John Arthorne
• Matt Flaherty
• Mike Wilson
• Oleg Besedin
• Pascal Rapicault
• Simon Kaegi
• Tim Mok
• Tom Watson

Minutes

Jetty

• there is a team that has opened a critical bug about being about to configure multiple Jetty HTTP instances on the same port
• Tom has been looking at this
• need to push back on the user to see if provided work-around is good for 3.4

Security

• is in the SDK so now lots of people using it
• most bugs coming in are UI-related
• a couple of non-UI bugs
• currently the initialization code is happening with a modal dialog
• CVS decorators are trying to access the username/password and are showing the dialog on startup
• might try to investigate using a job
• problem is that if someone calls the code from the UI thread then the UI appears locked
• kick off the job as early as you can and keep track of whether or not it is done
• Matt has seen similar issues in the product space

Launcher

• Andrew found a bug in the launcher on win32 in the switch workspace case
• if there is a space in the path and the last char is a backslash
• the backslash is an escape char and escapes the closing quote so we end up with a bad path
• also have been discussions around the permgen problem again
• thinking about creating a new executable on Linux that always adds the parm