[news.eclipse.technology.alf] ALF Weekly Project Meeting 03/29/07

["Kim Beckham" <kbeckham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ALF Weekly Project Meeting

29-Mar-2007



Eclipse Review Process

    a.. 02/08/07 - Got response from Bjorn who gave his approval to hold a 
release review.  Brian is going to follow-up with Bjorn on a question on 
whether we'll call this release .6, release .7 or milestone .7 for RC 1. 
Brian will be scheduling this with Anne Jacko (Eclipse).  02/15/07 - Release 
Reviews were not shown for the incubation phase for Eclipse documentation. 
Brian is continuing some discussion with Bjorn before he contacts Anne Jacko 
to schedule the Review meeting.
    b.. 03/02/07 - Brian is hoping to have further discussions next week at 
EclipseCon.  Brian has some questions about the current guidelines for 
Requirements Review as posted on the Eclipse site.
    c.. 03/09/07 - Brian held two successful sessions at EclipseCon.  The 
joint session with Higgins went very well.  He also spoke to Bjorn about the 
review process and we will proceed with plans to hold a review on .8 
Milestone (Release Candidate 1.0).  Higgins will also be providing some 
documentation for their use of LDAP based on the things we learned preparing 
the demo.
    d.. 3/29/07 - Kim and Brian have discussed the differences between 
Release Review and Promotion Review.  We'll be targeting a Release Review 
for our .8 Milestone.  Brian expects to schedule this once we have 
sufficient unit tests in place for ALF SSO.  Cognizant resources are 
currently scheduled to write J-unit tests.  Brian is looking again at a tool 
that will help generate the majority of these tests.  We'll meet early next 
so we can discuss our overall strategy and timelines to get these tests in 
place.


Other:

    a.. 3/29/07 - Updated copy of Higgins STS should be available next week. 
Brian will pick this up and begin reviewing it.
    b.. 3/29/07 - We have received some fixes for Axis 2 which appeared to 
make RPC literal work, but when we applied them, there's still a problem. 
Tim is working on this.  We have used document literal for T02 so QA can 
begin testing.  These problems have the potential of causing us to miss our 
Feature Complete and internal GA dates.
    c.. All pieces for SSO have been included in T02.  We're looking at 
incorporating the demo into the turnover process for T03.
    d.. We need to put in a request to have approval to include Axis 2, 
JDOM, and Open SAML 1.1 in our downloads.  Tim and Brian will work this. 
01/18/07 - no progress yet.  01/29/07 - no formal progress, but Brian is 
going through Open SAML right now.  Our issue here is to ensure that we can 
build on these and refer to them.  Brian says that this really effects our 
products such as TT-Vail more than releasing ALF 1.0.  We'll begin building 
with Axis 2 for Milestone .8.  02/08/07 - Tim submitted requests for Axis 2 
and JDOM.  Brian will submit a request for Open SAML.  02/15/07 - Brian is 
still going through source code in preparation for submitting the Open SAML 
request.  03/02/07 - no action to date on Open SAML.  Tim got verification 
on receipt of his requests for Axis 2 and JDOM, but not further information 
to date.  03/09/07 - Brian is still working on Open SAML before he makes 
this submission.
    e.. When can REG start including Event Manager and SSO into the 
Serena-Vail installer so it's available for use?  Tim will follow-up with 
Eric Reiners to see what they need, then we can work to make this available. 
02/15/07 - REG is starting to work on this with goal to have ALF pieces 
included in Vail T07 at the end of March.  Brian is starting to commit SSO 
code to Eclipse CVS.  03/02/07 - all current SSO code has been committed to 
CVS.  Brian is tracking one JAR file.  03/09/07 - Tim is working with Kery 
on some dependencies so this can be built.
    f.. Tim is working on the ALF Event Manager port to Axis2 for a build 
next week.  He is also working on how the install pieces will work together.


Decisions

    a.. Change Control to move our internal Release Candidate completion 
date from 06-Apr-2007 to 09-May-2007 has been completed.
Actions

1.      Demo - needs to be clearer - Kevin Parker

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.

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

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

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

9.      Communities (not Ecosystem) - developers/extenders/users - Kevin - 
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