Vex/VexCommitterCall20110215

Vex Committer Call 2011-02-15

Participants

• Florian Thienel
• Holger Voormann
• Igor Lino-Campista (offline)

Status Reports

Holger

• working on restructuring of the plug-ins

Florian

• working on isolation of the content model to allow the adaption of other models (e.g. WikiText)

Igor

• IP case for DITA 1.2 raised at: https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4956
• Analyzed Vex for findbug and PMD warnings. Looks relatively good, couple of improvements could be done here and there. Respective new issues created at: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=336402 and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=336404
• Did an usability test for DITA 1.1, found several problems/errors:

1. BUG: Releng, has no vmargs setup, so its very easy to get out of memory errors.
2. IMPROVEMENT: rename wizard for "Document" -> "VEX Document" ( in this way, if you type VEX in the filter field, you will find it as a search result together with the new "vex project")
3. BUG: Selecting a document type in the document wizard, does not give you a meaningful root element choice. (there is usually only 1 root element that makes sense for each doc type option)
4. IMPROVEMENT: Filename extension validation needed. (If you use whatever extension, the user may not even be able to open it with the right editor by default, since the extension will be unknown)
5. IMPROVEMENT: Suggest valid filename extensions based on the selected doctype
6. BUG: reproduced the null pointer with multipart editor that I noticed last year. ( reported by other person recently https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=336011 )
7. BUG: the generated template for the DITA 1.1 topic does no include mandatory attributes for that root element that was selected.

• I will work next on taking care of the multi-part editor nullpointer ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=336011)

Next Call

2011-03-01, 23:00 CET