Planning Council Members,
Here's a draft agenda for our face-to-face meeting in San Francisco on
Tuesday January 23rd. We are meeting in the Sandpebble DE room of the
Hyatt Burlingame near SFO.
Schedule
7:30am - continental breakfast and email
8:30am - morning session start
9:45am - email break
11:00am - email break
noon - lunch and email
1pm - afternoon session start
2pm e- mail break
3:30pm - email break
evening all Councils group dinner in the Sandpebble E room
Agenda Items
1. The Europa
CQ prioritization process defined by Janet and the January 31st
hard deadline for submitting new CQs for Europa.
2. Europa schedule and rules review, i.e., review the
wiki page and verify again that all projects can meet the deadlines
and conform to the rules
3. Europa coordination issues in general. One issue to revisit again is
Java 5 and what features are going to be supported by each project when
running under 1.4.
4. Discussion of recommended practices relating to version support and
dropping old versions. As our projects gain maturity, this issue will
become more important and I'm sure there is lots of experience amongst
the Council.
5. Internationalization of Eclipse projects (most importantly the
Platform) and the withdraw of IBM leadership in this area.
6. Report from the Orbit
team on adoption of Orbit and issues.
7. Further discussion and understanding of the Board resolution:
8. Discussion of testing and testing frameworks - how do projects do
testing today and is there interest among the projects for shared
infrastructure to run their project-specific tests against (a subset
of) the configurations supported by the Platform project? Tim explains
that today we have a situation where a combination of platform
developers and 3rd parties (e.g., the BEA JRockit team) collectively
certify the platform acceptance suite, but ignore all the other
projects. These other projects typically do not have the time, money,
or hardware resources to independently certify themselves against these
hardware-os-app server combinations and thus reply on a combination of
developers using popular platforms and luck. WTP would benefit from and
spend time to run its tests on different configurations if there were
hardware/OS setups available to do that.
9. Discuss ideas for the next committer-centric workshop (continue the
success of the build workshop). One suggestion has been for a workshop
around update manager/installer/provisioning issues. With a workshop
this spring, we cannot effect change for Europa, but we might for
Chiron (or whatever the 2008 release is).
Additional Items
While we have a relatively full agenda, there is always room for
additional useful discussions, so if you have an agenda item, please
send it to me or to the mailing list.
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