Hi PMC,
Here’s a high-level summary from the council meetings
this week. Official notes will be posted here (http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/council.php) by the moderators in a few
days.
A couple of important action items for DSDP:
·
We need to have a conversation soon
about which projects want to be in the Europa release (June 07). Incubation
projects will be allowed in the release, but there will be work required for
build coordination, update sites, and other misc items. So it’s
important to understand what you’re signing up for. Please reply with
your interest in participating.
·
We will need to refresh our project
plans and make sure we are adequately represented in the Themes and Priorities document
(see below). I took a first pass based on what I know from the projects,
but I will need help from all of you to edit the content.
·
We should start thinking about
EclispeCon 2007 and what we’d like to cover.
Doug
Tues: Requirements Council
- Discussion on the role and
activities of RC.
- Discussion about Strategic
member influence and communication to the Foundation and Projects.
Drafted a presentation template for communication of Strategic
Membership needs to the wider community.
- Themes and Priorities planning
for the next Eclipse Release in Jun 07.
Wed: Plenary (all Councils and Board)
- Review of the IP due diligence
process and the latest flowchart for getting code reviewed.
Discussion about complexity and problems projects are having with the
process.
- EclipseCon 2007 update
- Call for papers will open
soon.
- Each top level project will
have an allocation of long/short/tutorial slots. There is also a Mobile track (intended to cover mobile device issues.)
I think we will
have influence on the content in both tracks.
- Eclipse summit in Germany
– October 11-12
- Requirements council update to
the rest of the group
- IBM presentation on
Internationalization
- Most important
take-away: they are no longer going to do it by themselves for the
Eclipse projects they use. They are looking to start a translation
project that multiple companies will contribute to.
Wed: Architectural Council
Michael Scharf will provide an
update.
Thurs: Planning Council
·
Callisto (June 06 train release)
post-mortem
o
Good points: Good coordination
of projects, good planning process, bug contest, on-time release
o
Improvements: Need better
clarity on responsibilities for individual projects, better scheduling of the
ramp down, better voting process on changes to the train
·
Planned Callisto maintenance updates
o
Coordinated updates planned for Sept
06 and Jan 07.
·
Europa (June 07 train release)
o
More
projects will be able to participate, including DSDP
o
Milestone planning in July.
Project planning in August. First builds in September.
o
Project criteria to be worked on
over the next month. Projects will have to live up to the criteria to be
on the train and will have to get on the train before the end of the year.
·
Standard Charter changes
o
Minor language changes to the
standard charter were voted on: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.php.
These will go the Board next for ratification. The purpose was to put all
projects onto the standard charter for consistency in process. DSDP is
already on the standard charter.
·
IP Policy and Process Discussion
o
The council published a wish list of
desired changes to the process. The process must be reviewed by the
Board, and the hope is that the process can be made simpler and more efficient
for development.
o
Themes: better transparency of
what’s in the Foundation’s queue, shadowed CVS repositories to keep
developers working on un-approved code while the process is underway, training
for committers on the IP responsibilities.