[epf-dev] meeting minutes - 03/12/2008

[Ricardo Balduino <balduino@xxxxxxxxxx>]

EPF Content Call

When: 03/12/2008 - 8AM PDT

Participants: (sorry, I didn't catch
some last names)
        Jim
Ruehlin
        Bjorn
Gustafsson
        David
Hadley
        Jerome
Boyer
        Margaret
Hedstrom
        Kelli
Houston
        Srinidhi
        Nate
Oster
        Steve
Adolph
        Ricardo
Balduino
        Per
Kroll
        Joe
Barbarada
        Kim

Meeting notes and observations:
        
1) The practices library has been made
available in CVS in the customary location for libraries under development
(same as OpenUP, Scrum, etc). 
- connect EPF Composer to CVS at this
location: org.eclipse.epf/libraries/EPF_Practices_Library
- for "view" access to the
files (viewcvs): http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.epf/libraries/EPF_Practices_Library/?root=Technology_Project
        
2) Coordination between contributors
and committers is expected to happen. We have new contributors joining
the project (e.g. from IBM and ATS), and they don't have write-access to
CVS. 
Each practice lead is expected to interact with contributors (and committers,
in case lead is not a committer) to discuss evolution of their practices
and make sure content gets committed to CVS accordingly. We need further
discussion on this topic on next meetings.

3) Bugzilla
There is (at least) one Bugzilla entry
per discipline to capture work being done in the practices library. In
order to search for those items more easily, we added prefix [PracLib]
to their descriptions. 

4) Resources for new contributors
One source of information for new contributors
is the EPF web site, where one finds information on how to join the epf-dev
distribution list (this list) and newsgroup, create an account in Bugzilla,
access the EPF Wiki and so on. Please visit www.eclipse.org/epf

5) Method Authoring guidelines
Kelli Houston gave us an overview of
the method authoring guidelines. There are 20 or so guidelines that explain
how to set up the environment for authoring methods, then sketch, structure
and detail a method and its elements. These guidelines provide the basis
for creating content under the proposed practices library structure.
Kelli will proceed with some clean up of what she presented today and make
it available soon. This set of guidelines has been built as plug-ins in
EPF Composer. They should be added to CVS as any other library we currently
have. We also discussed it should be zipped and made available for download
from the EPF web site, as well as (and most importantly, as per participants
opinions) added to the EPF Wiki in order to promote easy access and feedback.
We hope that this community can help us evolve the guidelines.

6) Other topics
Next meeting (3/19 - 8AM PDT) - present
in more details the underlying method framework that supports the practices
library. Conference info to be sent.

All, please add to it in case I missed
anything.

Thanks,

Ricardo Balduino

Rational Software, IBM Corp. (www.ibm.com/rational)
Eclipse Process Framework (www.eclipse.com/epf) 
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