[birt-pmc] Question on the 7/24 PMC minutes

[Michael Fox <foxm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

Cheng-Yee raised a question on the potential
release of the MS-Word emitter in 2.1.1.  This release is supposed
to be maintenance only, so would it be possible/appropriate to include
the new emitter?  I agree we want to get this out as soon as we can,
and we would prefer not to wait until 2.2.   I imagine the emitter
is a pretty separate component that can be dropped in place without many
dependencies in the BIRT code, so would it be possible to set it up as
a separate download?

As 2.1.1 will probably get minimal testing
compared to 2.2 and this is a totally new component, setting it up as a
separate download might give us a chance to give it a better beta. When
its holding up well in the field, we could declare it part of the product
and merge it into the distribution at the next opportunity (2.2).

We can talk about this on Monday.

        Mike

Of course we could claim that this is
a fix for our current totally non-functional MS-Word support:-)


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Subject	[birt-dev] Eclipse BIRT PMC Meeting Minutes - Monday, July 24, 2006

Meeting

BIRT PMC, 10am Pacific, Monday, July 24, 2006

Attendees

Wenfeng Li - BIRT PMC Lead - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Paul Clenahan - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Scott Rosenbaum - BIRT PMC - Innovent Solutions (www.innoventsolutions.com)
Jason Weathersby - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Mike Fox - BIRT PMC - IBM Corporation (www.ibm.com)
Larry Liang - BIRT PMC - InetSoft Technology Corporation (www.inetsoft.com)

Minutes

Nomination of Larry Liang to Join PMC

With InetSoft's active participation in the BIRT project, Wenfeng Li has nominated Larry Liang from InetSoft to join the PMC. Larry has been an observer on the PMC for a few months and his permanent membership will facilitate cross-member coordination in the BIRT project.

The existing PMC members voted on this and unanimously approved Larry's membership in the PMC. Welcome on board!

BIRT 2.1.1 Planning

BIRT 2.1.1 is tentatively planned for a September 28, 2006 release. This will be a coordinated release with a number of other Eclipse projects. Detailed milestones will be the subject of upcoming cross-project planning calls.

BIRT 2.1.1 is a maintenance release only, and the development team is already working on bugs that will be addressed in this release. For a list of the bugs that are already addressed in, and are scheduled for, this release, refer to Bugzilla.

BIRT 2.2/3.0

The next BIRT major release will be BIRT 2.2 or 3.0 -- with the final feature set determining the release designation.

From an planning perspective, Wenfeng and Paul have the action item to come up with a planning timeline and get back to the PMC within the next couple of weeks. No progress has been made on this yet.

InetSoft Contribution

The InetSoft team have been working on addressing a number of bugs in BIRT, specifically focused on the PDF emitter. They have submitted patches to 10+ bugs and these have been reviewed and checked in by existing BIRT Committers.

Based on the quantity and quality of the work being done by the InetSoft team, the existing BIRT Committers have nominated two developers from InetSoft to become Committers (see below).

InetSoft are now actively working on a new MS Word Emitter for BIRT. The timeline has yet to be determined but Larry Liang from InetSoft will get back to the PMC with an indication if this is a candidate BIRT 2.1.1 project.

New Committers

The following new committers have been proposed and recommended to the BIRT PMC by the BIRT project teams. Following the process laid out in the BIRT project charter, the development team has asked for a vote from the existing committers on the nomination and have received at least 3 positive votes and no negative votes. The nominees have already been active in the BIRT project community:

• Jun OuYang from Actuate has been working on the report engine. He is responsible for report generation and the html report emitter and has contributed code in the past three months. Based on the contributions he has made, the report engine team recommends him as a new committer for BIRT project.

• Yu Liang from Actuate has been working on the report engine. He is responsible for report generation and data export tasks and has contributed code in the past three months. Based on the contributions he has made, the report engine team recommends him as a new committer for BIRT project.

• Xiaofeng Zhang from Actuate has been working on the cache layer implementation for BIRT Data Engine and has contributed code in the past three months. Based on the contributions he has made, the DtE team recommends him as a new committer for BIRT project.

• Mike Chen and Ian Liu from InetSoft have submitted patches that fix a number of bugs in BIRT report engine PDF emitter and report designer.  They have also submitted a Project Specification (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/BPS41 )  proposal to create a report engine emitter that outputs reports to Word format.

The PMC unanimously approves the new Committers for the project. Welcome on board!

For the new InetSoft members, Larry will be completing the Eclipse Company Contribution paperwork with the Eclipse Foundation.

Events

The following upcoming events will include talks on BIRT and/or Actuate sponsored BIRT booths:

SD Forum BI SIG on August 15, 2006 - Palo Alto, CA - http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1955&mo=8&yr=2006. Talk - BIRT: The Open Source Reporting Framework.

Actuate International User Conference on Aug 21-23 - http://www.actuate.com. Agenda TBD but will include talks on BIRT.
EclipseWorld 2006 on September 6-8, 2006 - Cambridge, MA - http://www.eclipseworld.net/ - Two talks (one introduction and one advanced talk).

EclipseCon 2007 on March 5-8, 2007 - Santa Clara, CA - http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/ - TBD (5 long sessions, 6 short sessions, 1 demo/panel and 3 tutorials allocated to BIRT)._______________________________________________
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