WTP PMC Minutes for April 12, 2005 Conference Call

Procedural matters - None

Community [LM]

• EclipseWorld tutorial proposal in flight.
• AR created presentation archive – see email on WTP list. This is intended to be a repository for presentation materials.
• AR talking at Colorado Software Summit on Web Services development in Eclipse and WSDL 2.0.
• Help system: successful internal build; should be incorporated into this weekÂ’s I-build. Requested Bugzilla “documentation” component (PMC approved request). Will be contacting BEA for help with documentation content work.

API Review

• PMC reviewed API statistics
• j2ee.core component identified as not making sufficient progress; the bulk of its models will need to be turned provisional. Potential migration of flexible project model to platform in 3.2 is a possible stumbling block in finalizing API in that area.
• Clarified renaming/repackaging strategy to be complete by end of M4.
• Continued progress on removing unintended APIs: dropped from 4,326 to 3,349. Overall metric for 4/11 build is 59.
• Summary from April 11th build report: 35% JUnit coverage, 95% JavaDoc coverage, 9/14 overview docs. See http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/N-N20050411-200504111848/apitools/api-progress.html.

Requirements Group Report [JK]

• No news to report; will begin including this in the agenda on a bi-weekly basis.

Architecture Group Report [DW]

• Validation framework API deferred.
• XML resolver/catalog API deferred.
• See flexible project model notes above.
• Separate XERCES plugin build likely this week.
• XML and WSDL dependency on JDT should be removed this week.
• GEMÂ’s M6 readiness is late; may cause us to introduce a late dependency change into our own build.

XPDL Proposal and Discussion of WTP Criteria for Submissions [JK]

• AR: standard body must be recognized, but standard must also be popular and open source runtime available, and standard must be in scope.
• AR: Criteria for standards body: open to new members, broad industry participation, established/history.
• CN: Maturity and adoption of standard should be part of our criteria.
• ND: XPDL and BPEL would be better placed in a technology project; too far from general audience of WTP.
• PMC resolved to suggest a technology project, but agreed to review the proposal when written to review vis-à-vis WTP charter.

WTP 1.0 Product Forums [JK]

• Idea would be to get interested parties to build on WTP 1.0, drive adoption, and gather requirements for 1.1.
• Timeframe: post 1.0 ship (easier to do once churn stops).
• Requirements group will take this on and report back to the PMC when proposal is complete.

Eclipse Booth at JavaOne [TW]

• CN, DD, and TW will assist with staffing the booth; TW to respond to Ian.

Creation of XSL Component [DW]

• Discussed contribution request (for 1.1; not on table for 1.0 release).
• Normal committership process must be followed, despite size of contribution.
• Can be made part of build so that itÂ’s available for evaluation by committers and rest of community.

Upcoming Milestone Build Process Ownership [DW]

• Setting dates / versions for upstream components, driving test plans with component leads, evaluation of candidates and convergence toward acceptance.
• AR offered to support DW in this effort.

Build Status Reports [ND]

• New distribution list will be set up for build reports.
• Progress on build status/result reporting – compile failures now attached to email.
• Will increase number of warmup builds.

Status Update on Ongoing Projects [AR]

• Janet making progress on 3rd party content agreements; ETA is M4.
• AXE will be going into the Lepido technology project.
• DTP: Sybase and others meeting with IBM to go over code and make progress (see email to PMC).

Action Items:

• TW: finalize dates for release reviews with EMO (week of June 20th being discussed)