Planning Council/August 05 2009

Logistics

Meeting Title:	Planning Council Conference Call
Date & Time:	Wednesday, August 05, 2009, at 1600 UTC / 0900 SFO / 1200 NYC / 1700 London / 1800 Berlin
Dial-in:	For the call-in numbers, see the "Project Review" number on Foundation Portal page.

Attendees

Chris Aniszczyk Technology (PMC) John Arthorne Eclipse (PMC) Wayne Beaton Eclipse Foundation (appointed) Cedric Brun OBEO (Strategic Developer) Oliver Cole Tptp (PMC) Stefan Daume Cloudsmith Inc.(Strategic Developer) <TBD> Datatools (PMC) Doug Gaff Dsdp (PMC) Neil Hauge Oracle (Strategic Developer) Mika Hoikkala Nokia (Strategic Developer) Anthony Hunter Tools (PMC) Oisin Hurley Stp (PMC) Markus Knauer Innoopract (Strategic Developer) Christian Kurzke Motorola (Strategic Developer) Ed Merks Modeling (PMC) Mike Milinkovich Eclipse Foundation (appointed) Kaloyan Raev SAP AG (Strategic Developer) James Saliba CA Inc. (Strategic Developer) Sebastian Voigt brox IT-Solutions GmbH (Strategic Developer) Thomas Watson Rt (PMC) David Williams WTP (PMC) (appointed Chair) Gary Xue Birt (PMC) Note: feel free to correct any errors/omissions in above attendance record.

Topics

• Announcements:

Congratulations and condolences to John Arthorne as new PC rep from Eclipse PMC

Congratulations and condolences to Oisin Hurley as new EclipseCon program chair!

• Finalize SR1 Plan.

• Review Planning_Council/Galileo_postmortem.

• Begin Helios Discussions

• similar process of having Common Discover Site
• similar criteria?

to be in Common Discover Site

to be in Release

But with graduated levels of achievement where appropriate (e.g. 5 levels from none to excellent)

Instead of "pass/fail", require a "statement of intent" for each item as part of Project Plan.

For example, some projects might declare "no intent to support accessibility checklists".

Projects would still be excluded on a case by case bases, if felt they interfered with the process, or other projects functionality.

• Hot Items?

Granularity: sub-Projects vs. Top Level Project?

capabilities definitions and process?

others?

• Helios Dates:

M1 8/7 - 8/21

M2 9/18 - 10/2

Initial standard-format plans due 10/2

M3 10/30 - 11/13

M4 12/11 - 12/18 [note: beginning of 1 week windows]

M5 1/29 - 2/5 [seven week span from M4, to account for end-of-year holidays]

M6 3/12 - 3/19

EclipseCon 3/22 - 3/25

M7 4/30 - 5/7 [seven week span from M6, to account for EclipseCon]

Release: 6/30/2010 (last Wednesday of June)

Note: regarding the +0, +1, +2, +3, EPP, and 'available' deadlines

the three 2 week windows will follow the sub-schedule of

Friday, (one week), Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

the remaining week windows will follow the sub-schedule of

Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

• Do we have the right members? What to do about those that are inactive?

For reference, there are 14 Strategic Members

• Next Meeting

September 2, Wednesday, Noon Eastern Time.

Reference

Galileo Simultaneous Release

Planning Council Members

Simultaneous_Release_Roles and Simultaneous_Release_Roles/EMO