DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 28-May-2008

Meeting Title:	TM Committer Phone Meeting
Date & Time:	Wednesday May 28, 2008 at 1500 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1000 Rochester / 1100 Toronto / 1600 London / 1700 Salzburg
Dial-in:	Martin to call everybody by Skype Or try Highspeedconferencing

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MartinO to start conference call - please dial in using the numbers above.
Please be available for Skype Chat in parallel to the call. MartinO will start Skype chat just prior to call.
Skype dial-in: martin.oberhuber, ddykstal (or david_dykstal), david-k-mcknight, kevin.j.doyle, xuan.chen886, rupen.mardirossian, javier.montalvoorus, eugenetarassov, michael_scharf, uwe.stieber, radoslav.gerganov, wrsfburton.

Invited Attendees

• IBM - Xuan Chen, Dave McKnight, Dave Dykstal, Rupen Mardirossian, Kevin Doyle
• Wind River - Martin Oberhuber, Michael Scharf, Uwe Stieber, Eugene Tarassov, Felix Burton
• Symbian - Javier Montalvo Orus
• ProSyst - Radoslav Gerganov

This is an Open call, so anyone else can join (though we expect the talk to be interesting for committers only).

Agenda

• Last meeting: DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 21-May-2008
• Skype Call Quality

New Stuff

• Late API Change Requests
  • We really need to draw a finishing line now!
  • bug 233068 - [api][breaking] Remove tm.discovery.edit reexport of EMF -- accepted, Martin
  • bug 231209 - [api][breaking] IRemoteFile.getSystemConnection() should be changed to IRemoteFile.getHost() -- accepted, DaveM
  • bug 230821 - [api][breaking] IRemoteFileSubsystem is inconsistent with IFileService -- DaveD to investigate impact, committers in favor of the change if doable.
  • bug 230919 - [api][breaking][files] IFileService.delete() should not return a boolean -- Rado: can handle all cases with exceptions, inconvenient to do both. Martin: boolean value would hardly ever be used. Rado: Not checking return values is bad practice. Martin: It boils down to the question whether it is an error to try and delete a file that's not there. -- accepted, Rado to make the change
  • bug 212742 - [api] Need a Utility to send commands and receive output without prompt -- DaveM: We have RemoteCommandShellOperation with BEGIN-END-TAGS (but how reliable is it?) -- denied, due to lack of time
  • Changes to go into RC2

Steps Towards Ganymede

• DSDP/TM/3.0 Ramp down Plan for Ganymede
  • We have RC1, so from now on EVERY checkin must be tracked in bugzilla, even simple cleanups (except documentation-only or unittest-only things). Also applies to "incubation". Rules do not apply to TCF
  • there MUST be a +1 vote on the bug (though the vote can happen after the fact)
  • Please do NOT only ask me for reviewing, it doesn't scale

• Testing
  • We should do another round of coordinated testing with TM 3.0 RC2 in order to find bugs important enough to get fixed
  • Who can organize it? - DaveD write up wiki page, Martin E-mail testers

• Bug Triage
  • Please take the time and triage your still 3.0 assigned bugs to see which of them can be deferred to 3.0.1
  • All "3.0" assigned bugs must be triaged now and either assigned a proper RC milestone or 3.0.1 (with the exception of Documentation-only fixes)

• New and Noteworthy
  • I'll need a list of new features for a New&Noteworthy, and for the Release Review. Release Review material is due next week.
  • See CDT/User/NewIn50 for example; for TM, I put most news into our Build Notes already, so it should be possible to compile the N&N out of the build notes
  • For the N&N, please make screenshots and work on "your" new features, e.g.
    • Useractions

• Hi-priority-bugs
  • Severity Major, Hi-Priority
  • Current Statistics: 1 blocker (Martin), 1 critical (Martin), 10 major (DaveD, DaveM, Kevin, Martin, Michael), 20 other P2's
  • Please fix the known hi-priority bugs as soon as possible -- best before the coordinated testing on RC2, to ensure we get good test coverage
  • Community contributions: Only few unapplied patches right now, should apply now if possible (see also the Bug Process Page for a query)

• Cleanup Work
  • Besides the hi-priority issues, there is a LOT of cleanup to do:
    • New releng scripts on dsdp.eclipse.org (Martin: must-have before his vacation)
    • Copyright Year Updates (Run the releng Copyrights Tool)
    • API Tooling Javadocs(@noextend and friends) - bug 227368, bug 225529 comment 4 and bug 225529 comment 6 - DSDP/TM/Code Ownership
    • Review and improve Userdocs; we have several open bugs here
    • Review and improve Javadocs; lots still missing
    • Fix broken hyperlinks in the docs, fix HTML/XML errors (which can make the indexer not work)
    • Get rid of compiler warnings wherever possible
    • Add more Unittests -- ideally write an accompanying unittest for every bugfix
    • Run Findbugs -- Update site on http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse, Quickdocs by Rado in tm-dev E-Mail
      • Question about filtering false positives posted on fb-discuss link
  • TM Website: revamp should really be complete for Ganymede! Kevin and Martin won't have time. DaveD will try to get to it, but cannot promise.

What will happen after Ganymede?

• Propose working on TM 3.0.1 (bugfixes only) in HEAD until fall
• Start coming up with "Big Rocks" to address in the next cycle; re-use the TM Future Planning page? Some examples:
  • Connection Grouping - be Multicore aware
  • Rewrite the Tableview to be really aware of Properties
  • More dynamic subsystem enablement and configuration (e.g. detect UNIX vs Windows automatically at runtime)
  • Hi-Performance, caching EFS provider
  • Bring TCF to Maturity
  • Quality: Add unittest coverage, reduce bloat, improve performance, streamline APIs
• Shoot for TM 3.1 or 4.0? - DaveD: Attempt 3.1; Xuan: lots of classes moved to "internal" e.g. SystemRemoteCommand; Martin: discuss such issues on bugzilla
  • Martin: Agree, a non-breaking release seems better; Dave: Will increase community confidence
  • Related: Move to Java5? - DaveM: Keep Java 1.4 on the Server, allow 1.5 on the client
  • Martin: Parallel 4.0 and 3.1 development? - DaveD: Try not to do that!

Questions

• DaveD context menu on SystemView / TeamView: something going on with the way how items are being added. Bringing up the context menu immediately after startup shows some debugger related stuff. Martin: bug 208062

Committer Status and Report

• Javier - New Employer in Barcelona
• DaveD -
  • bug 189274 Import/export connections
• DaveM: -
  • JUnit should autotest dstore against old servers as well - an IBM thing
• Kevin: -
• Xuan: -
• Martin: - bug 215301 New project plan format -- Need to put Project Plan on the Web; AI Martin Update Releng scripts to automatically run unit tests at night
  • Commons.Net 1.5.0 not yet released - AI Martin create placeholder CQ
  • Next tasks - Move SubsystemConfiguration implementation into non-UI; Lazy loading of SubsystemConfiguration (use the Proxy more); Lazy loading of UI adapters; some exceptions observed by Uwe (Wind River) in our nightly wheels
  • bug 221190 EFS getChild() with relative path - perhaps need to check whether our impl still works properly
  • GSoC student Takuya Miyamoto for bug 185925
• Uwe: -
• Rupen: -
• Michael: -
• Eugene: -
• Rado: -
• Felix: -
• Questions

Old Stuff

• Unit Tests - next priority after API
• Migrating to new Releng on dsdp.eclipse.org (adopt P2, nightly tests, signing etc)
• bug 221211 MultiStatus for IFileService batch operations - exception on first failure for modifying operations. No exceptions/multistatus on non-modifying operations. AI DaveD/DaveM update Javadocs when it's clear what we want
• bug 220379 Make DStoreFileService API - encodingHandler - wait on reporter - is this fixed now that IService is IAdaptable as per bug 226262? AI DaveM ask reporters
• bug 220547 SimpleSystemMessage message ID - globally unique message id vs. plugin-local status - Dialog Title: MessageID if globally unique / generic title based on severity if plugin-local - AI DaveM think about

• Bugzilla:
  • Severity Major, hi-priority

• Quality, Backlog and Unit Tests
  • Remember our 2-fix-per-week / 3 unittests-per-milestone plan
  • Since our DSDP/TM/Face-to-face Meeting Toronto 17-Sep-2007 it's now 31 weeks / 5 milestones, so each committer is due 62 fixes / 10 unittests
  • Current situation is on this bugzilla report
  • Unittests: when adding a test, please add the tag //-test-author:YourName in front of it
    • DaveM - 5
    • DaveD - 22
    • KevinD - 11
    • MartinO - 3
    • TobiasS - 3
    • UweS - 7
    • XuanC - 51
    • Total - 101
    • Javier - 0

Vacation, away

• Martin vacation June 11 - 22 -- AI Martin finish and test the new Build scripts on dsdp.eclipse.org till then
• DaveM vacation June 16 - 20
• DaveD in July

Action Items

• Last Meeting Action Items
• Everyone: Add @noextend etc according to DSDP/TM/Code Ownership table;
  • Triage 3.0 and earlier assigned bugs and move to 3.0.1 what we can
  • Bug fixes, cleanup, unittests
• DaveD: Investigate bug 230821 exceptions in IRemoteFileSubSystem; write up coordinated testing Wiki page until Thurs May 22 evening
• DaveM: Fix bug 231209 IRemoteFile.getSystemConnection()
• Kevin: -
• Rupen: -
• Xuan: -
• Martin: Fix bug 233068 Discovery reexport; Prepare Release Review material; New Project Plan; Critical EFS bugs; UI/Non-UI Splitting; Finish new Releng and tell DaveD; E-Mail potential participants of Coordinated Testing; Commons Net Placeholder CQ
• Javier: Hi-PRI FTP BUGS
• Michael: Terminal improvements
• Uwe: -
• Rado: Fix bug 230919 IFileService.delete()
• Felix: -
• Eugene: -

Next Meeting

• DSDP/TM/Committer Phone Meeting 4-Jun-2008 (1 week) at 1500 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1000 Rochester / 1100 Toronto / 1600 London / 1700 Salzburg
• Monthly DSDP/TM/Phone Meeting 4-Jun-2008 at 9am PST / 1600 UTC