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DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 23-May-2006

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Meeting Title: TM Committer Phone Meeting
Date & Time: Tuesday May 23, 2006 at 6.30am PDT / 9.30am Toronto / 3.30pm Salzburg
Dial-in: Skype martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (works better than david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight

Fixed-line fallback dial-in:

  • International +44 (0)1452 567588
  • USA Freephone +1 (866) 6161738
  • Passcode: 0587322148 #

Attendees

  • IBM - Dave Dykstal, Dave McKnight (Kushal Munir was sick)
  • Wind River - Martin Oberhuber

Agenda

  • M2 Process Review
    • Distracted by changing topics?
      • not really. Getting dicussions going was a good thing. Solicitated extra contributions from Tianchao and Greg.
      • many bugs were on Linux/Mac - had not been covered yet
    • Stressed finishing up M2?
    • Process Improvements for M3?
      • more nightly and integration drivers
      • schedule the actual S-build towards M3 on the 29th instead of the 30th; more I-builds 1.5 weeks before the M-build
      • advantage I-builds: allows reporters to verify builds fixed. To be done on demand when a major feature has been added
        • N-builds make sense only when Unit tests are in place -- currently everybody seems to be working on CVS
      • Other commitments - time on Open RSE: DaveD 80%, Kushal 80%, DaveM 25%-50%
      • Martin added cvschangelog on build.eclipse.org, we can run cron jobs there
  • Bugzilla usage, tips and tricks
    • Want to use markups like [api], [apidoc] -- others?
      • [mac] for macos-specific things
      • Agree that textual tagging is better than multiple RSE components; components are often set wrongly and are more hassle then good.
      • Dont do an extra step going over all the bugs -- apply the markers only when we are looking at a bug anyways
    • How to defer bugs
      • Set target milestone M4 (or other) for deferring
      • Not use the priority field officially (can use for personal management).
      • Resolution category WONTFIX for things we'll never address; LATER for "not for 1.0 release"; this will group deferred bugs nicely
    • How to find a bug to work on: Bugzilla Status / Assignee / Severity
    • Using Bookmarks (from TM home page and M2 build notes, saved searches, change-multiple-at-once
    • How to fix a bug: commit comment, when to mark fixed
    • How to verify and close
  • IP Due Diligence
  • Coding Conventions
    • Toronto folks use a coding style different than the Sun style -- docs available
  • M3 Planning and Priorities
    • Assign tasks to individual committers?
    • Getting the API right is the toughest thing!
    • 1. Start EMO Review for all upcoming legacy contributions:
      • Docs, user commands, import/export, anything else? -- DaveD
      • commands: needs merging of two components
      • each added component needs a couple of days of cleanup before it can be submitted
      • Dave Daniency write some IBM internal unit tests
      • MartinO to check back with EMO if review is required
    • 2. Add Examples to CVS -- MartinO
    • 3. Make Wizard completely replacable -- Kushal; need current status
    • 4. UI/Non-UI Refactoring (subsystem/filter) -- Kushal
    • 5. Fix critical, major and obvious bugs -- DaveM
      • Feel free to defer bugs you don't find appropriate;
        • set target milestone M4 is you want it in the release but not quite fix it yet
        • set resolution type LATER if that's something for RSE 2.0
      • Write unit tests on the way where appropriate
      • API improvements; fix "hard" bugs
    • 6. Start daily driver schedule - prepare driver for M3 deliverables early -- DaveD
      • Run the driver on demand; add docs to driver; prepare to run it on build.eclipse.org
    • 7. Work on ISV Docs
    • 8. Add Unit Test Framework -- DaveD
      • The framework that DaveD has just makes it possible to ship them to customers
      • Suggestion: go ahead and write Unit Tests where it makes sense to have them
      • Will add them to the framework later
    • RSE API Discussion
    • RSE 2.0 Planning
  • Want regular committer meetings?
    • IBM people have a weekly meeting currently; could piggypack on that; wednesday 11am
    • Move to 9.30; try doing with Skype; starting next week.

Action Items

  • Martin to check with Eclipse Legal what's required for legacy contributions
  • Martin to add examples to CVS
  • Martin to document our agreed bugzilla process on the website or wiki (this is a release review item) - including a list of markups we want to use
  • DaveD, DaveM and Kushal to add copyright attributions for merged patches
  • DaveD to re-schedule next week's wednesday meeting
  • DaveD to prepare contributions on bugzilla: Docs, Unittest-driver, User-commands, Import/Export (in this order)
    • We want to have at least one unit test for something in the repository soon, so we can use it as template for new ones
  • DaveM to create bugzilla entry and tm-log.csv entry for Mike Berger's Spirit patch
  • DaveM and DaveD to review and correct RSE API Discussion where necessary
  • DaveM to work on fixing major and critical bugs
  • Kushal to make Wizard completely replacable and continue UI/Non-UI refactoring

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