| [birt-dev] Eclipse BIRT PMC Meeting Minutes - Monday, June 11, 2007 |
Meeting
BIRT PMC, 10am Pacific, Monday, June 11, 2007
Attendees
Wenfeng Li - BIRT PMC Lead - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Paul Clenahan - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Jason Weathersby - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Larry Liang - BIRT PMC - InetSoft Technology Corporation (www.inetsoft.com)
Minutes
BIRT 2.1.3 Development
Release timeframe for this release will now be July due to workload from BIRT 2.2 development.
General Information
BIRT 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the BIRT 2.1 release series and is intended to be narrow in scope since the development team is concentrating on BIRT 2.2. The 2.1.3 release is focused on addressing critical bugs identified by the community.
The Development Plan for BIRT 2.1.3 is available on the Eclipse BIRT pages (http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/project/project_plan_R2_1_3.php).
For a list of bugs assigned to the release, refer to Bugzilla: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?classification=BIRT&target_milestone=2.1.3
BIRT 2.2 Development
BIRT 2.2 RC2 was made available last week. Plans for the upcoming releases are:
BIRT 2.2 RC3 - June 14
BIRT 2.2 RC4 - June 21
The development team is in the process of wrapping up the RC3 build for release later this week. As previously noted, after RC3, all changes to the code base require at least one PMC member to approve the change.
General Information
The next major release of BIRT is BIRT 2.2, scheduled for June 2007 as part of the Europa Simultaneous Release (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Simultaneous_Release).
The Development Plan for BIRT 2.2 is available on the Eclipse BIRT pages (http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/project/project_plan_R2_2_0.php). A number of BIRT Project Specifications (BPS) relating to BIRT 2.2 have been posted on the BIRT Wiki.
For a list of bugs assigned to the release, refer to Bugzilla: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?classification=BIRT&target_milestone=2.2.0
New Committer: Zhongbo Li
Zhongbo Li has been nominated to be a new Committer on the BIRT project. Voting process will be performed using the Eclipse members portal at http://portal.eclipse.org.
BIRT Events
The following upcoming events will include talks on BIRT and/or Actuate sponsored BIRT booths:
Jazoon 07 on June 24-28, 2007 - Zurich, Switzerland - http://jazoon.com/ - The Eclipse BIRT Framework
Actuate International User Conference on August 13-15, 2007 -- Las Vegas, NV -- https://www1.event-projects.com/evo/AIUC2007/
EclipseWorld on November 6-8, 2007 - Reston, VA - www.eclipseworld.net - Introduction to BIRT 2.2; BIRT 2.2 Integrating and Extending
BIRT Articles
The following articles have recently been published on BIRT:
Eclipse Developer's Journal – April 2007 - How to Develop an Application Using the Eclipse BIRT Design Engine API by Jason Weathersby; Tom Bondur; Jane Tatchell - http://eclipse.sys-con.com/read/367994.htm
Eclipse Magazine - April 2007 - ODA Extensions and BIRT - Part II by Scott Rosenbaum and Jason Weathersby - http://www.eclipsemag.net/
Eclipse Magazine - March 2007 - A Primer On ODA Extensions and BIRT by Scott Rosenbaum - http://www.eclipsemag.net/
Eclipse Developer's Journal - February 2007 - Developing an Application Using the Eclipse BIRT Report Engine API by Jason Weathersby; Tom Bondur; Jane Tatchell - http://eclipse.sys-con.com/read/336872.htm
Full list of articles can be found on the BIRT Project Wiki at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Articles(BIRT)