VIATRA/DeveloperMeetingMinutes/Meeting20170907

Topics

• Current status: Bugzilla Gerrit AERI
• TODOs from last meeting
  • TODO Bugzilla issue for Transformation Dev UI
  • TODO Zoli: finish remaining tasks related to CPS demonstrator app
  • TODO: Issue management
  • TODO Zoli: schedule pattern parser update
• Ongoing tasks
  • Surrogate objects in base index
  • Eclipse Collections integration
  • Xtext scoping experiments for performance
    • https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/viatra-dev/msg00743.html
• Open sourcing summer school materials created by Dániel Varró
  • Example depends on Yakindu
• Backward compatibility issue with 1.6 related to dangling edges
  • https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/viatra-dev/msg00741.html
• 1.7 progress
  • Two weeks until 1.7.0 M2

Minutes

• Xform Dev UI: Gabor created issue
  • https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=521810
• Yakindu summer school example
  • Some issues related to VIATRA usage
  • Maybe adapt to Papyrus (only statechart used, less VIATRA problem)
• CPS Demonstrator App
  • Viewers and validation integrations added
  • App is deployed by CI build
• Pattern parser update done, merged
  • Eclipse Collections integration options
  • Bundle EC7.x (Java 7) in our update site
  • Easy installation without user input is not possible
  • Favor Java 7 users for 1-2 minor release then switch
  • TODO Zoltan, Gabor: Check EC 7.x
• Xtext scoping experiments
  • TODO: should be evaluated on multiple user machines
  • Create snapshots with profiler
• Alternative code generator strategies
  • Merged
  • Changing strategy breaks using code
  • TODO Balazs: evaluate and test
• Java 8 dependency
  • Xtext 2.11 (for new generator)
  • Eclipse Collections 8.0+
  • Guava 21
  • Probably should be called VIATRA 2.0
• Dangling edges backward compatibility issue
  • TODO Gabor, Balazs: please check, add test and fix
• 1.7.0 progress
  • Recent changes will be contributed to Photon M2