[dtp-pmc] Agenda for Eclipse Planning Council meeting next week

[jograham@xxxxxxxxxx]

PMC,

Here's the agenda for the Eclipse Planning Council meeting next week.
Please let me know if you have any input on these or other issues that
you'd like me to raise at the meeting.

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Agenda Items
1. The Europa CQ prioritization process defined by Janet and the January
31st hard deadline for submitting new CQs for Europa.
2. Europa schedule and rules review, i.e., review the wiki page and verify
again that all projects can meet the deadlines and conform to the rules
3. Europa coordination issues in general. One issue to revisit again is
Java 5 and what features are going to be supported by each project when
running under 1.4.
4. Discussion of recommended practices relating to version support and
dropping old versions. As our projects gain maturity, this issue will
become more important and I'm sure there is lots of experience amongst the
Council.
5. Internationalization of Eclipse projects (most importantly the Platform)
and the withdraw of IBM leadership in this area.
6. Report from Bob Fraser of the UI Best Practices Working Group
7. Report from the Orbit team on adoption of Orbit and issues.
8. Planning Council contribution to the Roadmap (called the Platform
Release Plan). Each project is responsible for its own project plan; these
plans will be aggregated into the Planning Council contribution to the
Roadmap. Note that the Roadmap is an important document because the Bylaws
prohibit the EMO from approving any project plans and releases that do not
conform to the Roadmap [1]. Thus it behooves us to write a good Roadmap so
that our projects can all continue without Bylaw-induced conflict.
9. Further discussion and understanding of the Board resolution:
      RESOLVED, that the Board directs Management to ensure that each
      Eclipse project's website:
         a.       conforms to common user interface and navigation
      guidelines
                  to make user navigation of our project sites less
      difficult; and
         b.      must comply with the Incubator branding for all projects
      in incubation.
10. Discussion of testing and testing frameworks - how do projects do
testing today and is there interest among the projects for shared
infrastructure to run their project-specific tests against (a subset of)
the configurations supported by the Platform project? Tim explains that
today we have a situation where a combination of platform developers and
3rd parties (e.g., the BEA JRockit team) collectively certify the platform
acceptance suite, but ignore all the other projects. These other projects
typically do not have the time, money, or hardware resources to
independently certify themselves against these hardware-os-app server
combinations and thus reply on a combination of developers using popular
platforms and luck. WTP would benefit from and spend time to run its tests
on different configurations if there were hardware/OS setups available to
do that.
11. Discuss ideas for the next committer-centric workshop (continue the
success of the build workshop). One suggestion has been for a workshop
around update manager/installer/provisioning issues. With a workshop this
spring, we cannot effect change for Europa, but we might for Chiron (or
whatever the 2008 release is).
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Regards,
John Graham
Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.
http://dataplat.blogspot.com/