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Pending Discussion Items

• UI design of merging open task dialog (bug 193423)
• UI and content provider discussion design of improving the Archive category (bug 181388)

Next Meeting

Planning meetings are open to all interested. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

Tuesday, August 21, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• Summer of Code student status reports (Balazs, Jevgeni, Xiaoyang)
  • Figure out how to distribute Trac wiki editor bug 200114 (Steffen)
• Timezone datestamp issue bug 198714 (Rob)
• API to store arbitrary attributes in the AbstractTask: patch on bug bug 199818, bug 199817 (Eugene)
• grouping of query elements, 2nd patch on bug 175318 (Eugene)
• Policy: resoving bug reports (Rob)
• 2.1M1 release planning (Mik)

Minutes: ...

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Past Meetings

Tuesday, August 14, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• Summer of Code student status reports (Balazs, Jevgeni, Xiaoyang)
• API to store arbitrary attributes in the AbstractTask: bug 199818, bug 199817 (Eugene)
• Vacation catchup (Mik & Rob)
• 2.1M1 release planning (Mik)

Minutes: ...

Tuesday, July 31, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• Summer of Code student status reports (Balazs, Jevgeni, Xiaoyang)
• August 7 meeting CANCELLED (most committers offline)

Tuesday, July 24, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• Summer of Code student status reports (Balazs, Jevgeni, Xiaoyang)
• 3.0 planning (Mik)

Minutes:

• Explore participation in Eclips.org Bug Day
• Add 'helpwanted' query to community page
• Mik offline: July 30 - August 10
• Rob offline: August 3 - 8
• Steffen offline: August 7 - 14

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Tuesday, July 17, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• Summer of Code student status reports (Balazs, Jevgeni, Xiaoyang)
• XPlanner status (Helen)
• vserver admin status report (Rob)
• dev builds are behind bug reports (Eugene)
• grouping in the task list bug 175318 (Eugene)
• refactor abstract task editor to not use ScrolledForm bug 195326 (Eugene)
• Duplicate detector for jira bug 195079(Rob)
• Bug triage and clean-up (Mik)
• 3.0 planning (Mik)

Minutes:

• ...

Tuesday, July 10, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• 3.0 Objectives (Mik)
• "Additional Settings" section in Repository settings 195058 (Eugene)
• Pending Patches (Steffen)

Minutes:

• Steffen to create new bug to address revealing bugs with pending patches in the Task List UI

Tuesday, July 4, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• Summer of code update (students)
• 2.0 decompression (Mik)
• Update site split (Mik)

Minutes:

• Tools for checking for binary and source compatibility with older releases: Clirr, JDiff
• Automatic adding "extras" update site entry and follow up on "sites to visit" bug in PDE

Tuesday, June 26, 10-11am PT

• Summer of code update (students)
• 2.0 endgame (Mik)
• Feature and update site changes, EPP packaging (Mik)
• Continuous build (Steffen)
• 194258 [api] Stream multi task data retrieval straight to storage bypassing in memory cache (Eugene)
• Contribution for committers (Eugene)

Minutes:

Tuesday, June 19, 10-11am PT

• Summer of code update (students)
• Continuous build (Steffen)

Future:

• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)
• vserver admin status report

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Tuesday, June 12, 10-11am PT

• Project Rename Status (Mik)
• Summer of code update (students)
• 2.0 RC1 release status (Mik)
  • Release of JIRA connector?
• Error handling design (Mik, Rob, Steffen)
• Fixes for the synchronization API (#191575)
• Notification of API changes (Steffen)

Actions:

• Mik to investigate options for disabling old mylar plugins (required for tonight's dev build)
• Eugene to take quick pass at synchronization api changes tonight [bug#191575]

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Tuesday, June 5, 10-11am PT

• Google Summer of Code kick-off (Balazs, Jevgeni, Xiaoyang)
• vserver admin practices (Rob, Steffen)
• 2.0 end game planning
  • Committers 2.0 plan update
• Task Repository in offline mode (Mik)
• New Task List layout (Mik)
• Offline storage refactoring status update (Rob, Steffen) (Mylar Offline Refactoring)

Stale items

• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)

Actions:

• Rob to administer vserver (corrdinate with Steffen)
  • Contact Denis regarding updates
  • Investigate backup options

Tuesday, May 29, 10-11am PT

• 2.0 end game planning
• Task Repository in offline mode (Mik)
• New Task List layout (Mik)
• Offline storage refactoring status update (Rob, Steffen) (Mylar Offline Refactoring)
  • Task vs. TaskData; properties vs. class hierarchy (Eugene)
  • Full vs. light synchronization (Eugene)

Stale items

• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)

Minutes:

• (Eugene) Proposed eliminating Task hierarchy and replace with property based access
  • Suggests merging Task and AbstractRepositoryTask
  • Willing to add property support to ITask for 2.1 if requested by integrators.
• (Steffen) The property-based vs. sub-classing discussing is important and we need to consider this for 3.0 again.
• (Rob) raised TaskData migration and committers agree that migraion of existing offline data not practical

Actions:

• (Mik) introduce class factories and remove custom task externalizers
• replace AbstractQueryHit by Tasks
• allow connectors to submit Task or TaskData objects as hits
• convert offline storage from Java Serialization to XML
• construct attribute editors through factory, do not store repository configuration in offline storage
• apply pending rename changes from porting guide
• refactor attachment API

Tuesday, May 22, 10-11am PT

• 2.0 end game planning
• New Task List layout (Mik)
• Monitor update (Meghan)
• Server memory troubles (Steffen)
• MylarStatus API and HTML errors 170536 (Steffen)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion (Rob, Steffen) (Mylar Offline Refactoring)
  • Do we really need two separate APIs for task list and offline storage?
  • Class hierarchy vs. property-based API
• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• Mylar demo at JavaOne (Eugene, Mik)
• Top voted bug: 169123: Updated bug does not preserve values of custom fields in Jira (Steffen)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)
• 153573 add support for nesting top level task list elements, e.g. via incorporating working sets (Eugene)

Minutes:

• Task workflow and special query support likely getting bumped
• Rob: related bug#185805 (timestamp bug) and bug#186939 (blocked jobs)
• Steffen: httpclient message.shutdown() can be used to force shutdown of network IO

Actions:

• Rob and Steffen:
  • to start offline refactoring.
  • included refactoring of local tasks to AbstractRepositoryTask (P1)
  • For RC0, add progress monitor to all api methods that involve IO to easy future implementation.
• Steffen to open new bug for alternate containment representations (outline, task editor can be used to reveal) duplicates for bugzilla could use this
• Mik to make new bug for Open Resource bug related to Task Working sets (defer Eugen's multiple tasklist views patch since will require additional view memento facility?)
• Rob: Will investigate breaking out past activity from scheduled mode (after higher priority api changes).
• For next call: Committers should review their P1 and P2 tasks and form a realistic list for 2.0

Tuesday, May 15, 10-11am PT

• New Task List layout (Mik)
• Monitor update (Meghan)
• Server memory troubles (Steffen)
• MylarStatus API and HTML errors 170536 (Steffen)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion (Rob, Steffen) (Mylar Offline Refactoring)
  • Do we really need two separate APIs for task list and offline storage?
  • Class hierarchy vs. property-based API
• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• Mylar demo at JavaOne (Eugene, Mik)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)
• 153573 add support for nesting top level task list elements, e.g. via incorporating working sets (Eugene)

Actions:

• Decisions made regarding offline TaskData handling and presentation merged with wiki (Mylar Offline Refactoring).

Tuesday, May 8, 10-11am PT

• New Task List layout (Mik)
• Monitor update (Meghan)
  • Server memory troubles (Steffen)
• MylarStatus API and HTML errors 170536 (Steffen)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion (Rob, Steffen)
• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• Mylar demo at JavaOne (Eugene, Mik)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)
• 153573 add support for nesting top level task list elements, e.g. via incorporating working sets (Eugene)

Actions:

• Additive improvements deferred in favor of API changes.

Main API changes (P2):

• Local task become repository tasks
• Hits become Tasks (but retain UI representation)
• Offline storage improvements (Mylar Offline Refactoring)
• Tasklist externalization
• AbstractRepositoryTaskEditor (make protected methods private)
• Multiple Task Downloads (synch api changes)
• Context listeners api (Mik)
• Extract repository configuration

Tuesday, May 1, 10-11am PT

• Eclipse Forum Europe report (Mik)
• New Task List layout (Mik)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion (Rob, Steffen)
• Monitor update (Meghan)
• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• Mylar demo at JavaOne (Eugene, Mik)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)
• 153573 add support for nesting top level task list elements, e.g. via incorporating working sets (Eugene)
• Post action items/summary/minutes after each meeting (Mik?)

Actions:

• Eugene
  • send screenshot example of strikethrough looking like row lines
• Mik
  • consider moving activation to task icon
  • working sets in tasklist needs priority since we need to put miles on it before release
• Rob
  • persistence api should be finalized so that we can drop in alternate back ends

Tuesday, April 24, 10-11am PT

• Post action items/summary/minutes after each meeting
• Streamline UI for basic RSS support (Eugene, Mik)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion (Rob, Steffen)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)

Minutes:

• Greg Wilson gave brief overview of planned work for SoC project
• Discussed options for implementing offline storage for task data
• Discussed use cases for RSS support in the Task List
• Discussed tagging and working sets support in the Task List

Actions:

• Does it make sense to keep task data separate from the task list?
• 165880: Listeners API should allow to pass multiple events in one call Potential source of refresh issues (Eugene)

Tuesday, April 17, 10-11am PT

• Google Summer of Code planning (Mik)
• ROME depency accepted (Eugene, Mik)
• Usage monitor status (Meghan)
• Tagging and nesting task list elements UI discussion (Mik)
  • Contributing custom models to task list and task repositories views. per-milestone/version grouping, or grouping query results by certain attributes (Eugene)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion (Rob, Steffen)
• 2.0M3 API updates (Mik)
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)
• Post action items/summary after each meeting

Tuesday, April 10, 10-11am PT

• Usage monitor status (Meghan)
• Tagging and nesting task list elements UI discussion (Mik)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion (Rob, Steffen)
• 2.0M3 API changes (Mik)
• 179873: Completed status not correct for JIRA tasks
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View (Eugene)

Tuesday, April 3, 10-11am PT

• Mylar 2.0M2 release wrap-up, 2.0M3 planning (Mik)
• Offline storage strategy design discussion(Rob, Steffen)

Tuesday, March 27, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all interested. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

Agenda:

• Mylar 2.0M2 status
• 178933 Show last recently used views in the Quick Context View
• 176513 [api] Multiple task data request (Rob)
• 160389 [api] Serialization / loss of data etc (Rob)
• JIRA statuses: resolved vs. closed

Tuesday, March 20, 10-11am PT

• Goolge Summer of Code ideas (Mik)
• Eclipse 3.3M6 status (Mik)
• JIRA network utilization (175407)
• JIRA test server
• usage reporting (Meghan)

Tuesday, March 13, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• EclipseCon decompression (Mik)
• JIRA test server (Steffen)
• 2.0M2 planning
• AttributeFactoryUI/RepositoryConfiguration (Rob, Steffen)

Tuesday, February 27, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• '-' issue - bug 166174
• EclipseCon planning (Mik)
  • 3.2 dev build
  • Stickers/Buttons/T-shirts
  • Poster
• In-place context view (Mik, Eugene)
• GSoC 2007 project (Steffen)

Actions:

• Find Mylar film glasses (Steffen)
• Find out if there is any space left for poster presentations (Rob)
• At EclipseCon ask EMF folks about using EMF for repository mappings (Mik & Rob)

Tuesday, February 20, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

Agenda:

• 2.0M1 release review (Mik)
• Id vs handle vs key (Mik)
• How to make Query creation more obvious for new users (Eugene)
• Showing Task ID/Keys in UI (task list and task dialogs, editor tabs and headers, task history dropdown, change sets) (Eugene)
• JIRA issues (Eugene, Steffen)

Actions:

• File form header bug
• Create method: TaskList.getTask(String connectorKind, String taskUrl)
• Create AbstractRepositoryTask.getKey()

Tuesday, February 13, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

Agenda:

• IP submission follow-ups for Lucene 2.0, Axis2 (Mik)
• Major connector externalizer and task handle usage refactoring (Mik)
• JIRA issues
• Make Steffen JIRA committer
• Discuss refactoring of RepositoryTaskAttributes (bug 150680?) (Steffen)
  • Separate UI representation from attribute?
  • How to link attributes to repository configuration?

Tuesday, February 6, 10-11am PT

Agenda

• Finalizing of Mylar 2.0 plan (Mik)
• Status of IP submissions (Mik)
• Orbit dependencies
• Status of JIRA
• Issues with handles (Eugene)
• Issues with event notification api (Rob)

Tuesday, January 30, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

• Mylar 2.0 planning (Mik)
• Moving to Eclipse 3.3M5 builds (Mik)
• Final IP and contribution submissions for Europa (Mik)
• Status Jira Core Services and library dependencies (Steffen)

Tuesday, January 23, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

• Mylar 2.0 planning (Mik)
• Implementation strategy for
  • 171081: Autodetect JIRA repository for Open Corresponding Task (Eugene)
  • 159135: Automatic resolution of links between projects and issue repositories (Eugene)
• Additional contributions to be made by the Jan. 31st Europa cutoff (Mik)

Actions

• Consider Lucene 2.0 IPZilla submission (Mik)

Tuesday, January 16, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

• Mylar 2.0 planning
• Tomcat and server setup for mylar.eclipse.org
• TaskId vs TaskHandle (numerous issues with JIRA connector) bug 170587
• Models and their application to the tasklist (Rob, Eugene) (147084: merge Task List and Task Activity views)
  • "[use] models and provide model that would show unread/changed/conflicting tasks" (170606: Add action to Task List to filter out read requests)
  • 153573: add support for nesting top level task list elements, e.g. via incorporating working sets
• Task web browser

Actions:

• Add milestone buckets 2.0M1 through M3 (Mik)
• Gets JIRA enterprise license key for test server (Mik)
• Ask about server backup policy (2.6 Gigs used), disk space for usage data (Mik)
• Consider downgrading Tomcat to 5.5 (Meghan)
• Write up Mylar monitor data collection project (Meghan)
• Plans hyperlink detection improvements and bugs (Rob)
  • 170679: [api] improve hyperlink detection api
  • 170681: [api] allow connectors to contribute alternate content providers (models) to tasklist
  • 170685: [api] allow connectors to contribute filters to tasklist

Tuesday, Januray 9, 10-11am PT

Agenda:

• Mylar 2.0 milestone and Europa planning.
• Synchronization, progress indication, and cancellation of repository task operations (168257, 165498, 150682, 154258, 143011)
• Mylar error handling (168049, 165498, 168672, 165383)
• Task activity timing improvement (147537)
• JIRA issues (auth problem and integrating JIRA client)

Actions:

• Write up error policy (Steffen)
• Plan synchronization related bugs (Rob)
• Find platform release dates (Mik)
• Define scope of project on planning page (Mik)
• Add dummy query on codehouse project (Mik)

Tuesday, December 19, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

• 1.0.1 priorities (Mik)
• Slap Eugene for discrediting Mylar in blogs and Mik for not blogging
• Layout of search/query page

Tuesday, December 12, 10-10:30am PT

• Mylar 1.0 celebration and retrospective.
• Brock Janiczak's JIRA core services contribution (Eugene, Mik?).
• Discovery update sites (Eugene, Mik).
• Version numbers (Mik).

Tuesday, December 5, 10-10:30am PT

• Remaining priorities for 1.0 (Mik)
• API status (Mik)
  • Externalizers ITaskListExternalize
  • Listeners API, primarily ITaskListChangeListener
  • Adapting to ITask and broken selection of the task respositories
• Proxy settings status (Rob)
• Subclipse integration and Team API (Eugene)

Tuesday, November 21, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

• Remaining 1.0RC1 items (Mik)
  • Issues with tack context (multiple folders, unfiltering issues, etc)
  • Issues with new local task UI (focus, inline vs. editor)
  • Moving task drop down and pause button out of Task List UI?
• Bugzilla and repository infrastructure status (Rob)
• Trac status (Steffen)
• Web connector status (Mik)
• JIRA connnector status (Mik & Eugene)

Actions

• Mik emails newsgroup/mylar-dev about task list toolbar changes
• Mik fixes classpath of context.core xmlrpc-use
• Visible editor always unfiltered
• Eugene files bug on editor color problem
• Steffen files bug People section with JIRA

Tuesday, November 14, 10-11am PT

Agenda

• Mylar 1.0 priorities.
• Pause button UI (Mik?)

Actions

• Need people section for Trac
• Discuss removing commit context button on newsgroup
• Allow proxy settings to be specified per-repository

Tuesday, October 31, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

• Web repository connector UI , bug 158069 (Eugene)
• Authentication infrastructure and connectors (Rob)
• Offline support for JIRA (Mik)
• Pause button UI (Mik)

Tuesday, October 24, 10-11am PT

Planning meetings are open to all. When adding an item to the agenda please include your name.

Agenda

• 0.8 post-mortem (Mik)
• Storage of offline task data (See Mylar Task List) (Rob)
• JIRA priorities (Mik)
• Web repository connector UI , bug 158069 (Eugene)
• Alternative integration with remote repositories (Eugene)

Actions

• Investigate Lucene as store for offline task data (Rob)
• Investigate showing working sets as top-level nodes in Task List (Mik)

Tuesday, October 17, 10-11am PT

Agenda

• 0.8 release planning
• Web repository connector UI , bug 158069 (Eugene)
• Rich editor for Trac (Steffen?)
• Repository task data (Rob)
  • Offline persistence: object serialization (current), xml, database bug 160389
  • Lazy loading bug 157257
• Issues with Task monitoring and filtering for projects with more then one source folder
• Jira integration planning
• User guide and improving the docs

Actions

• Need "Add to Task List" action on query hits
• Consider merging the above action with dialog for "Add Existing Task..."
• Need to consider pre-fetching task data for query hits

Tuesday, September 26 2006, 10-11am PT

• 0.7 release planning
• Project and repository association (Rob)
• 1.0 planning (Mik)

Wednesday, August 23 2006, 10-11am PT

• Planning for 0.6.2
• Generic web Repository Connector integration (Eugene)
• Trac Connector rich editor (Steffen)
• AbstractRepositoryConnector split into core and UI
• Planning for 0.7 and 1.0
• Zest website integration and release cycles

Wednesday, August 2 2006, 10-11am PT

Agenda

• 0.6.1 post-mortem
• 0.6.2 and 1.0 planning
• Summer of Code status
  • Trac Connector (Steffen)
  • Bugzilla enhancements (Jeff)
  • JIRA
• Design discussion on splitting AbstractRepositoryConnector into core/ui
• Sandbox release for web connector (Eugene)

Vacations

• Rob: 3rd - 8th
• Mik: 8th - 17th

Actions

• Consumers of APIs update Javadocs as they use them, a la wiki
• Decide on conference call time and interval next meeting
• Investigate Rome dependency for Sandbox (Mik)

Thursday, July 6 2006, 10am PT

• wrap up discussion of 0.6 release
• Trac integration status (Steffen)
• enhancing Bugzilla connector status (Jeff)
• Connector naming conventions
• tasks API discussion. String-based task id, separate task id, url and repository url, (issues 146396, 149624, 149509), other refactoring of tasks, hits, query and repository classes
• UI for repository settings
• prioritizing for 0.7 and beyond
• planning and use of Bugzilla priorities

Tuesday, June 13 2006, 10am PT

• Schedule a regular meeting time and interval
• Google SoC: Trac integration (Steffen)
• Google Soc: enhancing Bugzilla connector (Jeff)
• Repository connector API discussion (Mik)
• Prioritize tasks for 0.6 (Mik)