[stem-dev] Notes from STEM Community Discussion

[stem-dev] Notes from STEM Community Discussion

STEM Community Call April 28, 2011

On the call: Jamie, Jan, Jan-Frederick, Stefan, Matt, Werner, Judy

Topics of the Week

STEM V1.2.0 RC

· Jan-Frederick checked in items

· Stefan & Jan-Frederick will move items down in branch (now on top level)

· Once items in, will build & post RC5

· Agreed: Change publication date to 5/3 to allow time for testing

Metadata

· Jamie will change published release date to 5/3

New Section on Wiki

· Recommended by Yossi; Jamie has listed new targets

· Open to all for editing

· Create our own metadata, document dependencies for people maintain the build

New Process for Automating STEM Nightly Builds

· Now have continuous integration software locally

· Will move to Eclipse infrastructure for this

· Discussion re frequency for binary builds (currently take 35 minutes to run) and for publishing binaries

· Matt will post item on Newsgroup or stem.dev

· Runs to take place so as not to disrupt German colleagues at 2 am Pacific

Moving STEM to Java 1.6

· Discussion. Will make performance higher; will need to change documentation; next version will use 6 only

· Decision: Make change official ; eventually lift language compatibility requirements

New Item: Moving to Eclipse 3.7

· Discussion: 3.7 about to replace 3.6

· Currently STEM runtime plugins are 3.5, building at 3.6

· Decision: One month prior to 1.2.1 update documentation to Eclipse platform version Indigo (3.7)

· Will need to update documentation as to Java and Eclipse versions; Judy to locate pages where these occur

Student Projects

· Stefan will contact students (probably in final exams)

Items from Participants

· Judy: email on documentation? Jan: New documentation on Earth Science data not part of 1.2.0

· Jamie: Put Future Plans for Earth Science data up for discussion next week: feature or part of core?

· Jamie: Will need to discuss feature builds, i.e., what is to be part of the core product vs. optional features?

· Werner: Will present STEM next week, hopes to use RC5

· Stefan & Matt: Will visit San Jose students who’ve been working on STEM, will update Werner on their work