[vtp-dev] VTP Development Call Minutes: October 20, 2005

[Brent D Metz <bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eclipse Voice Tools Development Call
Minutes

October 20, 2005, 11am EST

Attendees:

Joe Oh, Audium
Brent D. Metz, IBM
John Buttito, SandCherry
Michael Greenawalt, TellMe
Andrew Wahbe, VoiceGenie

The call began with a summary of the
state of the project. It was noted that development on features planned
for the
1.0 release had not begun and that multiple
committers have been unable to provide a firm schedule for development
on
the project. In light of these facts
it was proposed that the release be scaled down to a more containable feature
set
surrounding the existing code base and
improvement of the execution API. A participant agreed that this appeared
to be the
prudent move. Another caller noted that
the browser API would be in particular the most important part that they
would find
useful. A revised milestone plan draft
was said to be a next step and would be sent to the vtp-dev mailing list.

The project status continued with a
discussion of a possible move to the Web Tools Project (WTP) following
a release. It
was noted that there appeared to be
favorable conditions following a release to do this. Benefits were noted,
including
increased synergy organizationally with
the codebase the VTP already relies on. It was asked if there would be
increased
benefits such as JSP compatibility with
VoiceXML, but it was explained that the functionality already exists and
that
code-wise the functionality from WTP
would stay the same. The consensus on the call was that moving to WTP would
be a
positive step for the project's evolution.
It was noted that the success of WTP could lead to increased exposure for
the
VTP.

The browser API was discussed and several
problems with the passing of parameters and the UI display were discussed.
It was
noted that this code was the least mature
in the milestone. Solutions to the problems addressed were discussed and
it was
resolved to open a bugzilla defect to
track the issue while development progressed in the coming week.

The call ended with a note that the
browser API continues to need further testing. One caller noted that their
development
team would be evaluating the API to
determine its usefullness.

--
Brent D. Metz
Enterprise Voice Tools
bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx
"Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible."
- Alan Kay