Notes
from the Higgins Developers call on Thursday, July 31
Attendees
=========
* Duane Buss - Novell
* Greg
Byrd - NCSU/IBM
* Brian Carrol - Serena
* Andy
Hodgkinson - Novell
* Ranjan Kumar
- IBM
* David
Kuehr-Mclaren - IBM
* Mike
McIntosh - IBM
*Dale
Olds -
Novell
*Ernst
Plassmann - IBM
* Mary
Ruddy
- Meristic/SocialPhysics
* Markus Sabedello - Parity
* Jim Sermersheim - Novell
* Paul
Trevithick -
Parity/SocialPhysics
* Tom Caroll - Parity
*
Hank Mauldin - Cisco
*
Attendees
Meeting Notes
Time: noon
EDT (1700
London; 1800
Vienna,
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Agenda
1. [Mary] 1.1M3 build
- [Mary] We had been
holding the M3 build for 4 time sensitive bugs, but since they are going to
take a while to fix, we are going to go ahead with doing the M3 build this
week.
- [Mary] Previously Brian
had offered to do an intermediate build between M3 and M4 if these four items
are not done for M3, but are completed early in M4. We can still do that if that ends up
making sense.
2. [Mary]
Nightly Auto-Test
- Next step was
getting Mike's STS to build using
headless Buckminster .
- [Mary] Mike how are things going with getting
your STS to build using
Buckminster?
- [Mike] There was a
problem getting Eclipse 3.3 to work with SVN eclipse integration. Have moved to 3.4 to see if that
helps.
3. [Mary &
David] Internationalization
- David to post initial
code to the dev list.
- See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Internationalization_Support
- Awaiting approval
of Ipzilla item 2515 for reuse of a subset of Equinox jar for dependency
- http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.osgi/supplement/src/org/eclipse/osgi/util/NLS.java
- [Mary]The next topic is
Internationalization. We are still waiting for Eclipse to approve Higgins’ use
of the Equinox code. The Equinox
project lead had given me his approval, but Eclipse legal is double checking
that the Equinox code we are planning on using was written entirely by the
Equinox team. There is a
different procedure for approval if it included any third party code.
- [Mary] David can you give
us an update?
- [David] Friday bug source
with attachment. Looking for feed
back.
- ….. Any
comments?
- [David] One concern about
how messages were formatted.
- [David] Will post
bugzilla item to IRC.
- [Ranjan] …Don’t want the
third party code to be the limiting factor.
- [Mary] Since the code had
been previously approved for release by Eclipse, once Eclipse hears back from
Equinox, approval should be quick, as Eclipse will not need to review the code
itself.
4. [David,
Greg, Markus, Rajalakshmi] Higgins Configuration Management
- [Mary] Markus, David, do
you have an update?
- [David] Got some
comments, wrangling on the API. Think it is close to being ready.
Haven’t tried to integrate everything yet. May require a few other changes. Pretty close to being
ready.
- [Markus] Do you need me
to make any changes or are you going to do that?
- [David] If it is ok with
you, I think it is better if I commit the changes.
- [Markus] Ok
fine.
5. [Mohamad]
New Oracle-provided Google Contacts Context Provider
- Can we get an overview of
functionality?
- Does it implement each
contact as a separate Entity?
- [Mary] Mohamad is not on
the call.
- [Paul] I haven’t looked at this call. Had hoped he implemented it as a
separated entity. Also my understanding from Tom Caroll is that the terms of
service do allow people to not just ready their own data, can take the data
and do what you want with it and do updates. That is good because that is
rare.
6. [Paul]
Access Control —HR use case, this time for sure.
- [Paul] The next thing is
I did have a little time to work in this use case.
- [Paul] Having a “self
instance” is a long word, so started calling it a “self subject”. It is really just a marker, so I made
it a Boolean. It is really just a
convenience marker. I did go
ahead and implement the changed talked about in the previous call. Self operation: with add, modify and
delete subsets of that. So really
just did some clean up and re-factoring.
I also realized that you don’t need the second policy.
- [Discussion that there
were problems with the Eclipse wiki displaying the updated diagram, that
prevented others from seeing the revised diagram and
commenting.]
- [Paul] Not changing the
semantics, just a slightly different way of expressing this. So if there are no more comments, I
think I’m ready to tackle other use cases.
- [Jim] I don’t; see any
difficulties… (Of course, I
can’t see the file.)
- [Paul] I will try to fix
the page and the file.
- [Jim] The way you
described it, it sounds right.
- [Paul] I will fix the
picture this afternoon and start tacking other use case.
7. [Paul] Next
Higgins F2F
- [Paul] Want to encourage
people to use the doodle and indicate their availability there. As of right
now, no one has signed up, so please indicate if you can attend the F2F. Otherwise, we need to find another
location
- [Mike] Traveling to CA
for day and a half means I can’t go
- [Paul] If the meeting
were longer, would that help?
- [Mike] It would increase
the probability of my justifying the long trip.
[Paul] We are trying to minimize
total travel cost.
- [Paul] Please indicate if
you can come or can come for a longer time.
- [Mike] If the F2F is
short, the discussion tends to be high level rather than low
level.
- [Paul] Please indicate
and we will try to find a compromise.
- [Paul] Mike there is one
more thing not on the agenda. I
was looking at the future development of z-cards.
- [Mike] I don’t have an
update. You might want to check
with Tony.
- [Paul] No
Problem.
- [Mary] It is summer, so
we have another short call. Will see folks not on vacation next
week.
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