[wtp-pmc] ATF Status

[Robert Goodman <goodmanr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I will only be able to attend the beginning
of the PMC meeting, so I sent the ATF status in a note

Tech Preview

Planning for the first part of January.
We didn't want to do it the at the end of the year, since we were afraid
that any announcement wouldn't be noticed with everything going on around
Christmas.  Also, a lot of team will be out of the office around Christmas.
There are two things that we want to get into the Tech Preview which are
Mac support and a supported version of Mozilla's XULRunner 1.8.1. There
is a lot of demand for Mac, so we thing that this would be a good addition
to the Tech Preview. We are using an hand built version of Mozilla's XULRunner
1.8.1. We are working with Mozilla to begin official build of XULRunner
1.8.1, We didn't want to do a Tech Preview with a hand built unsupported
version of XULRunner. 

APIs Definition

Defining APIs, wasn't consider when
considered when developing ATF. We will need to define the API's and then
implement them. We have started looking at the areas we want to define
API's. We also plan to start a discussion on our listserv, so the community
can weigh in on the areas that they consider important for APIs. By the
time we are ready to do a Tech Preview, we should know the areas that we
want to define APIs, but the API's won't be defined. 


_javascript_ Editor. 

We plan to announce out plan to do a
new _javascript_ editor. We plan to post a detail proposal to solicit community
feedback, possible alternatives, additional project participation, and
ways the project can be leveraged from the Eclipse membership-at-large.


   Thanks
     Bob


Robert Goodman
IBM Emerging Technologies
goodmanr@xxxxxxxxxx
512-838-8824    T.L. 678-8824