[ecf-dev] Reminder and Agenda: ECF conference call 9.18.2006 1900 UTC/12

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

We are going to have a necessarily short (1/2 hour) conference call 
tomorrow (Mon 9/18) at 1900 UTC/1200 pacific.

Here's info for call:  
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_Communication_Framework_Project#ECF_Team_Meetings

Proposed Agenda

1) Getting the core ECF APIs to 1.0.  I propose that the following APIs 
be reviewed/modified/prepared for 1.0: 
   a) core/org.eclipse.ecf
   b) presence/org.eclipse.ecf.presence
   c) datashare/org.eclipse.ecf.datashare
   d) fileshare/org.eclipse.ecf.fileshare
   e) discovery/org.eclipse.ecf.discovery

It is possible, I think, that we could add a f) pubsub/remoteservice API 
to this list as well.  We should discuss whether things are close to 
ready for that and Peter N and I (at least) should discuss consolidation 
between the remoteservice API and the pubsub service API.  Please see 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Remote_OSGI_Services and 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Enhanced_Publish_and_Subscribe_Support 
to get a feel for these efforts.

ISSUES:  1) Which APIs should be targeted for inclusion in 1.0?  1a) 
include pubsub/remoteservices?  2) When/How to get to 1.0?; 3) How to 
get docs and additional example/test apps in place for all these APIs?

2) Getting recent contributions into ECF APIs/codebase/examples/tests
   a) Bulletin Board Provider 
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/BB_Provider%28s%29)
   b) Shared Code Plugin 
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Shared_Code_Plugin)
   c) ECF Bitorrent Provider 
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/ECF_BitTorrent_Provider)
   d) JXTA provider for ECF 
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JXTA_provider_for_ECF)

ISSUE:  We need to identify a path/plan for getting all these excellent 
contributions into ECF proper

3) VOIP/Call API.  Roland is working on this with the author of the Java 
Jingle library.  We should put together a plan for 1) Extending Call API 
to support entire call setup and call execution (e.g. streaming, etc); 
2) Getting a provider (jingle probably) implemented for #1; 3) Getting a 
simple example application that uses provider from #2. 

ISSUE:  We need to find a way to support Roland/get more resources on 
this and move it forward.

4) Shared Editing.  There has been some terrific work on conflict 
resolution strategies for real-time shared text editors by Mustafa 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/RT_Shared_Editing. 

ISSUE:  We should put together a plan for getting this work into ECF's 
example collab editor, and expect to generalize the API over time (e.g. 
make extension points to allow for other operational transform 
strategies/supporting other types of editors...e.g. xml editors/java 
editors/graphical editors).

Obviously there are lots of other things we need to do, but we'll have 
to spread agenda items over multiple weeks. 

I (Scott) am also going to plan to send out planning missives to 
ecf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx and ECF newsgroup in order to do planning 
asynchronously among multiple people via the wiki.  Please feel free to 
discuss these, make notes, add things, remove things, discuss 
prioritization, comment, etc at the following wiki entry:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Proposed_Agenda_for_9.18.2006

Thanks. 

Scott