[news.eclipse.technology.alf] ALF Weekly Project Meeting 04/19/07

["Kim Beckham" <kbeckham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ALF Weekly Project Meeting

19-Apr-2007



Eclipse Review Process

    a.. No news this week.  Brian will be scheduling the review once we have 
our J-Unit tests ready.
    b.. The tool we purchased is working well to help us generate the J-Unit 
tests.  This will require some manual process to make them fully usable.


Other:

    a.. Need to determine if there's an alternative to using environment 
variable (ALF_Home) and what is driving this. (Tim)  IDD needs to have this 
resolved since it may affect a lot of the doc.
    b.. Axis2 fix for RPC Literal is now available and Tim has confirmed it.
    c.. SSO component is not compiling with the latest release of Axis2 so 
today's build will be done with the earlier version.  This means that the 
SSO support for Event Manager won't be available yet.  These compile issues 
should be worked out for next week's build.  IDD should be able to proceed 
with their writing using today's build.
    d.. We need to update the version of Java that we're using to compile 
the build.
    e.. We continue to have problems getting our test environment in place. 
Brian is working with QA on this.  04/19/07 - this was resolved last Friday.
    f.. Brian and Tim have delivered information to our Cognizant team so 
they can begin developing our component tests.


Decisions/Issues:

    a.. On-line Help - we're not planning to include this as part of this 
release, unless IDD finds they are ahead of schedule and they have time to 
get it in.  We'll use PDFs for now and then add the on-line version for the 
next release.
    b.. Higgins STS - we're currently testing with a snapshot of the STS 
from March.  The new version of this won't be available until the end of 
April at the earliest.  This means we may have to distribute the snapshot 
version with our RC 1.0.  There are other dependent libraries that ALF users 
will need.  IDD will document what is needed, where they need to get it, and 
what to do with it so they have everything they will need.
Actions

1.      Demo - needs to be clearer - Kevin Parker us waiting for us to 
release 1.0 before he updates this.

2.      About ALF - page has different audiences and needs to talk to them 
differently. Need to whack Eclipse junkies over the head to understand that 
ALF is different. Content tailored to communities, publishers, consumers and 
Eclipse-junkies - Kelly Shaw - done and waiting on Kevin to update the 
Eclipse website. - done

3.      Home page - needs updating - jazzing up - Kevin Parker - done

4.      FAQ - Brian Carroll - 01/29/07 - Still in progress

5.      ALF in the news - Kevin Parker

6.      Requirements - duplicate what's on the team page - Kevin Parker

7.      NAV BAR - Fix It Kevin - Communities - Kevin Parker - done

8.      Vocabularies - add narrative - Kelly Shaw - 01/11/07 - no progress 
expected until after SKO.

9.      Communities (not Ecosystem) - developers/extenders/users - Kevin - 
get list update - done





Tim continues to have problems with Axis2 and fixes for RPC literal.