| [birt-dev] Eclipse BIRT PMC Meeting Minutes - Monday, June 18, 2007 |
Meeting
BIRT PMC, 10am Pacific, Monday, June 18, 2007
Attendees
Wenfeng Li - BIRT PMC Lead - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Paul Clenahan - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Scott Rosenbaum - BIRT PMC - Innovent Solutions (www.innoventsolutions.com)
Jason Weathersby - BIRT PMC - Actuate Corporation (www.actuate.com)
Mike Fox - BIRT PMC - IBM Corporation (www.ibm.com)
Minutes
BIRT 2.1.3 Development
No status change. Release timeframe for this release is 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 RC3 was made available last week. Plans for the upcoming releases are:
BIRT 2.2 RC4 - June 21
The development team is now working on RC4 build for release later this week. All changes for RC4 and final require at least one PMC member and the development lead in that area 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
BIRT 2.2: Excel Emitter
The Excel Emitter is currently marked as "prototype" in the UI. We cannot leave this label in the final BIRT 2.2 release. There are some outstanding bugs in the Excel emitter as of today -- if we can get these resolved, then we should be able to remove the Prototype label in the UI.
Paul / Wenfeng will alert the development team that these issues need to be resolved.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=193159 has been created to track this issue.
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)