PDE/Meetings/20090720

Attendees

• Curtis Windatt
• Ankur Sharma
• Michael Rennie
• Chris Aniszczyk
• Andrew Niefer

Minutes

• Converging on a 3.6 plan in the next few weeks
  • Try to add items, narrow down scope
• API Tooling tests rewritten to run blazingly fast
  • Failing tests still not reproducable locally, getting Kim involved this week
• Documentation Change
  • Write doc using wiki (Eclipsepedia), generate html help for packaging with SDK
  • Based on Mylyns doc style (they run a manual build script to generate html)
  • Need to be careful of link checking
• Considering renaming plug-in to bundle
  • Chris is sending an email to PMC for discussion
• We need to improve testing
  • Set up automated UI tests based on the tool chosen by Arch council
  • Improve the PDE UI milestone test page
  • Have people take responsibility for different areas (can cover more areas)
  • If there are areas to concentrate on for a milestone we'll make sure they are covered
• Need to improve communications between build and UI
  • Avoid breaking each other late in cycle
• API tooling package versioning
  • On plan, Tom, Chris interested in versioning all packages in SDK

Discussion Topics

• Converging on 3.6 plan
• API Tooling test failures
• Using wikis as documentation
• Do we use Bundles or Plug-ins?
• Improving automated and milestone testing

Action Items

• All teams: Update the PDE Plan and start assigning tasks to yourself
• Investigate smoke testing... SWTBot?
• Move documentation to the wiki