Planning Council/March 20 2011

Introduction and Introductions

This is our annual, traditional EclipseCon Face-Face Meetings, Sunday, March 20, At Hyatt, Napa Room.

3-4 (Pacific Time) PC face-to-face meeting

4-5 (Pacific Time) Joint Councils Meeting (See Donald's note to list).

Logistics

Meeting Title:	Planning Council EclipseCon face-to-face meeting
Date & Time:	Wednesday, March 20, 2011, at 3:00 PMC Pacific time. Napa Room
~~Dial-in:~~ No dial in.	~~For the call-in numbers, see the "Project Review" number on Foundation Portal page.~~

Attendees

PMC (and Strategic) Reps

Chris Aniszczyk	Technology (PMC)
John Arthorne	Eclipse (PMC)
Oliver Cole	Tptp (PMC)	X
Mik Kersten	Mylyn (ALM) PMC
Brian Payton	Datatools (PMC)
Anthony Hunter	Tools (PMC)
Adrian Mos	SOA (PMC)
Ed Merks	Modeling (PMC)
Thomas Watson	Rt (PMC)
David Williams	WTP (PMC) (appointed Chair)
Gary Xue	Birt (PMC)

Strategic Reps

Cedric Brun	OBEO (Strategic Developer)
Stefan Daume	Cloudsmith Inc.(Strategic Developer)
Neil Hauge	Oracle (Strategic Developer)
Kaloyan Raev	SAP AG (Strategic Developer)
Pascal Rapicault	Sonatype (Strategic Developer)
Markus Knauer	Innoopract (Strategic Developer)
Christian Kurzke	Motorola (Strategic Developer)
Achim Loerke	BREDEX (Strategic Developer)

Appointed

Wayne Beaton

Eclipse Foundation (appointed)

Note: feel free to correct any errors/omissions in above attendance record.
Y = Yes, attended
N = No, did not
R = regrets sent ahead of time
X = not expected

Inactive

?	Nokia (Strategic Developer)	X
?	CA Inc. (Strategic Consumer)	X
?	brox IT-Solutions GmbH (Strategic Developer)	X

Note: "Inactive" refers to Strategic Members we have not heard from in a year or so, and have been unable to convince to participate. Those members can become active again at any time. Contact David Williams if questions.

Announcements

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Indigo Status

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Other business

Name that release; Indigo+1. We'll examine votes, and be sure there is a clear winner, and that the winner is not objectionable in some way we didn't think of before. Remember, once we come up with the name, it will have to be "vetted" by Ian/Mike to make sure there would be no trademark infringement, etc. (They might be able to do this "in days", before EclipseCon is over ... but not sure.) (Pascal?)

Status, plans, and urgency of moving from CVS to GIT. Why it is required, again? (Denis, Wayne?)

V6 of the Eclipse Road Map ... mostly here for reference. Any feedback should have already been given, I believe, if I understand the dates ... board review is next day.

Themes and Priorities. (Again, here for reference, may be discussed at joint meeting.)

Long Term Planning discussion

EclipseCon face-to-face is good time to discuss high level, long term issues. The following items are along the lines of "brainstorming" agenda items ... please add any of your own issues you've been wanting to talk about. They can range from a thought, question, or a well developed proposal.

Start with a reminder of our mission, purpose, goals, etc.

How are we doing? Beside 'being on time' are we achieving the best quality that we can? By focusing our projects on items that have biggest return, for Eclipse as a whole?

Should we have "must do" items at all? Or, are they just recommendations?

Are the requirements about right? Too many? Too few?

Is the release tracking checklist worthwhile? Should we do away with them? Should we make them better? More "auto fill-in" ... more "testing" results provide the data for forms, projects provide the exceptions/documentation. Who is the audience(s)? (Projects, PMCs, Planning Council, Adopters).

Is yearly release (with two service releases) the right interval? Should they be Quarterly? Should releases be every other year? Or, every other year be a LTS releases with "off" year having less maintenance emphasis?