| [wtp-dev] Minutes for the WTP Status Telecon, 2005-10-27 |
1. Review of Open Action
Items [1] - Arthur Ryman
| 110309 | enh | P3 | jst.jsp-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx | ryman@xxxxxxxxxx | NEW | --- | [action] Add WTP 1.0 JST Component API Plan Items to Master Bug 110276 |
| 110308 | enh | P3 | david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx | ryman@xxxxxxxxxx | NEW | --- | [action] Add WTP 1.0 WST Component API Plan Items to Master Bug 110275 |
| 113134 | nor | P3 | wst.server-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx | jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx | NEW | --- | [action] Assign target milestone to critical/blocking bugs |
| 113137 | nor | P3 | tbashor@xxxxxxx | jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx | NEW | --- | [action] Create a proposal for the set of facets that we'll need for J2EE projects |
| 111141 | nor | P3 | jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx | ryman@xxxxxxxxxx | ASSI | --- | [action] Indicate JUnit Test Name with Performance Results |
Jeff - Bug 110309 and 110308, done?
Ted - We do not have a API plan for facet APIs.
Arthur - Usually, we like APIs to age a bit before declaring them. Let's treat facet APIs as provisional in 1.0 and then promote them in 1.5?
Ted - So how does that affect products building on top that require to use facet APIs?
Arthur - We do not need to put "internal" in the packages to minimize disruption. Really just a statement whether they are APIs or not. Use scary Javadoc to inform people these are not API yet and they could be broken in the future.
Tim - Bug 113134, will assign proper milestone targets for these bugs and pass it on.
Ted - Bug 113137, will work on the documentation.
Jeff - Bug 111141. Doing some local testing,
will have something available tomorrow or early next week.
2. Community Update
OOPSLA - Lawrence Mandel
Lawrence - Good overall. Lot of Eclipse
content. Most people are interested in using WTP as a tool instead of extending
it as a platform. Someone wanted to know how to use WTP to teach Web service
in his class.
Lawrence - Not many ppl have pass experience on WTP, I
think we need more exposure.
Lawrence - People wanted to know how to migrate existing
projects. I've opened a tutorial request. Anyone interested, let me know.
Open Source Symposium - Lawrence Mandel
Lawrence - Welll attended. Again, not a lot of WTP experience,
some Eclipse experience. A couple of ppl interested in how to use WTP in
their course or help build their application.
BEA World - Naci
Naci - Well attended. 100 to 200 ppl in the room. A lot
ppl is using Eclipse, but not a lot is using WTP. Someone has a browsing
tool for WSDL file. Overall, good.
CASCON 2005 - Jeffrey Liu
Jeff - We had two workshops, one for
WTP and one for Web service. The WTP workspace went well, we have about
30 participants. There were a lot of interest in data tools and the JSP
debugger. There's also one person who was interested in extending the SSE
framework to create an XUL editor.
Jeff - Not everyone in the workshop
was able to finish the tutorial, mainly due to connection problems. We
found a few bugs when WTP is run in disconnected mode.
Colorado Software Summit
- Arthur Ryman
Arthur - People are very knowledgable,
friendly crowd. About 500 ppl. I gave a developing Web service with Eclipse
talk. About 150 ppl attended. 95% used Eclipse or something based on Eclipse.
Only 5% used WTP. I used 0.7.1 in my demo, and things held together.
3. WTP 1.0 M9 Status
- David Williams
Review bug backlog, builds, and plans.
Chuck - Few issue with facet. With Tim's and Chuck's fixes, we should be in pretty good shape.
Kathy - I was able to test some with yesterday's build. So with these fixes, I think things should be good.
Kathy - We have some JUnit failures, fix coming.
Lawrence - Added capabilities.
Tim - for runtime or SDK?
Lawrence - runtime
Tim - I think this only works in SDK
Lawrence - I'll look into this.
Chuck - Rob is looking at the project refactoring work. Please work with Rob if you will be or interested in working in this area.
Jeff - For this week, who's going to test in disconnected mode?
Tim - I will.
Craig - I will.
Naci - I work in a semi disconnected mode. For my struct application, if you block connections to Apache.org, the Eclipse platform will come to a halt.
Craig - Please open a bug for this issue.
Tim - I was using a workspace from last week, so everything should be cached already. However, when I use this week's build against that workspace, it took 20 sec to validate. Looks like something may be bypassing the cache.
Craig - Lawrence and I will be spending some time to tackle these types of bugs.
Lawrence - The cache should be working in this build, I've put in a fixes a week or so ago.
Arthur - Were the struct configuration file trying to pull stuff from Apache.org.
Naci - Yes, and it sat there for 5 minutes.
Arthur - Can we create a "work offline mode" command?
Craig - I'll write up a document/proposal on how to fix these "offline" problems.
Arthur - Include things like, validation should fail gracefully, and not put red Xs in the problems view if disconnected.
Craig - The main issue is the timeout on URL connections.
Naci - But, in my case, I have the XSD cached, but it's still going off to the internet.
Jeff - We are running a bit late. Craig, please open a bug to track your proposal and we can continue the discussion there.
[action] Craig to create a proposal on how to fix the "offline" issues that we are seeing.
4. WTP 1.0 Performance - Jeffrey Liu
Review the Top Ten performance
problems and the fix plan for them.
Jeff - A lot of the performance tests
did not run this week, probably because of the facet API changes. Fix them
for next week?
[action]
Jeff to open bugs for performance testcases that did not run.
5. WTP 1.0 API Scans - Jeffrey Liu
Review the status of the
API scans including our Javadoc and JUnit coverage, errors in the API,
and violations of the Eclipse Platform API.
Jeff - Anyone looked at the API violation
bugs?
Jeff - We need to either fix these violations
or request for API.
Jeff - Some of them indicate that they
cannot be fixed in 1.0 due to the lack of APIs. However, they don't have
the corresponding "request for API" bug number in it.
Jeff - We should create these "request
for API" bugs asap.
[action]
Dev leads need to open API request against Eclipse Platform (or other prereqs)
and add the API request bug # to the corresponding API violation bug.
6. WTP Features and Subsystems Status [1] - David Williams
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/arch_and_design/subsystems/SubsystemsAndFeatures.html
Susan - Having a meeting on Monday to talk about this.
Lawrence - I spoke to David about doc not being in the build. They should be there soon.
Susan - Question for everyone, when you put context help hooks into your code, do those IDs point to the infopop plug-ins?
Arthur - Can we scan the source code and look for bad IDs?
Jeff - We probably can, but we need to know exactly what to scan for. Susan, can you send me an example of what not to do?
Susan - Yes.
[action] Susan to send out an example of what not to do for context help/infopop IDs.
7. Flexible Project Development Status - Chuck Bridgham
Chuck - concertrate on Facet integration. Everything should now be working this week.
Kathy - Web service is now using facet API. One workaround, module creation not working. So create your project before going through the wizard.
Kathy - I'll send out a note regarding the workaround.
8. Project Facets Development Status -Konstantin Komissarchik
Ted - J2EE APIs are now using Facets. We have the WTP facet wizard designed.
Arthur - Kathy, how are we with your plan
Kathy - Same as last week. We're one week behind.
Kathy - Should be funcational by next week. That leave us a few week for any integration issue.
Kathy - Most issue had been worked out.
9. Other Business -
Open
Jeff - Just to remind everyone that
when you create a new file, remember to put the proper copyright and license
in the files. I've scanned WTP and opened bugs for any files that do not
have proper copyright.
Arthur - Remember we had a build script
to "build" the Web site. We now got XSLT enable in PHP, we should
incrementally move towards this. Goal is to have no build.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Liu
IBM Rational Software - Performance Analyst
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