[epf-dev] Minutes of EPF meeting Wed Aug 5, 8am PDT

[Bruce Macisaac <bmacisaa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Attendees:

Andrew Maselli
Ricardo Balduino
Jim Ruehlin
Ana Pereira

1. Status of bugzillas
Discussed status of content freeze for Aug 10.  Library
seems to be in good shape.
- Jim, Andrew, and Ricardo have done all bugzillas assigned
to them.
- Bruce reports that overall the library seems to be in
good shape for the core content freeze for Aug 10.

2. proposed slot name changes (software design and software implementation
to technical design and technical implementation) 
        - Ana, Bruce, Ricardo
and Andrew had no objections.
        - Jim raised the concern
that these slots may be too general, and that this may mean that in future
too many work products fill those slots
        - Bruce noted that
this issue was discussed when slots were first proposed.  Some solutions
proposed were "subslots" and "tagging".  Peter
Haumer
        proposed that tagging
should be the means to filter the slot contents down to the relevant subset
for a task.  Because we have few work products, we haven't
        properly explored
this solution.
        - Jim suggested we
go ahead with the change, but revisit in our architecture before the next
release.
3. Status of the agile business rules practice and what to do with it
        - Bruce noted that
this practice needs some work to publish correctly, and that its style
is quite different than other practices.
        - Bruce will contact
the author (Jerome Boyer) to determine whether he can address these concerns.
4. status of scrum plug-in work 
        - Ana noted that Scott
wanted small practices, so she has created a new proposal with 9 practices,
uploaded a ppt with the plug-ins, and a zip of the practice library and
a published library.  She would appreciate feedback on what she has
done so far, before finishing the text for the practices.
5. Additional items:
        -
Bruce noted that there are many unusual characters in the library (curly
quotes for example), mostly coming from Word copy and paste.  Probably
won't fix for this release, since
much of the content has already been
sent for translation.
6. Meeting adjourned at 8:35amPST