VIATRA/DeveloperMeetingMinutes/Meeting20161208

Topics

• Bugzilla status: VIATRA
• TODOs from last week
  • TODO Istvan Rath: CEP issues, talk with Istvan Papp
  • DONE Abel: Propose Daniel Segesdi as committer
  • TODO Gabor: Document functional dependency usage
• 1.5 status
  • Check (and extend?) https://wiki.eclipse.org/VIATRA/Releases/NewAndNoteworthy1.5 and https://wiki.eclipse.org/VIATRA/Releases/MigrationTo1.5
• 1.6 planning
• Please vote on committer election for Daniel Segesdi
• Updates on the DRED extension +
  • https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=508496
  • https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=508896
• MD VIATRA demo

Minutes

• CEP issues: postpone TODO
• Committer vote for Daniel Segesdi in progress
• Functional dependency documented and added to N&N
• 1.5 status:
  • N&N looks ok
  • Feature freeze
  • Some legal files were missing from source jars and sometimes from projects as well
• 1.6 planning:
  • No feature branch yet, can be created when needed
  • Planned for Oxygen
  • Next milestone somewhere at the end of January
• Updates on DRED extension
  • Gerrit change with working implementation, except for aggregators
  • Next steps: support aggregators with adding mailbox for Rete nodes
    • Required for aggregator support
    • Messages can cancel each other out
    • Avoids this “repeated diamonds” problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming#Evaluation_models_of_reactive_programming
  • Performance seems ok based on initial results
• MD VIATRA Demo
  • Further progress on validation prototype