Meeting on February 22, 2010

Agenda

1. Attendance
2. Announce agenda
3. Approve February 8, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
4. Discuss 4.4.X development timeline.
5. Google Summer of Code 2010
6. Open Questions
7. Summary and closing

Notes

Attendance

• tclarke
• kstreith
• dsulgrov
• rforehan
• gmartin
• goffena
• dadkins (partial)

Summary

A number of proposed actions are planned for the 4.4.0 release currently scheduled for August. A number of dependencies will likely be upgraded including Qt and xerces. There are also plans to update the Windows compiler to Visual Studio 2010.

Opticks will apply to be a Google Summer of Code mentor again this year. The ideas page is here.

Please remember to update your links for Opticks announcements as the announce mailing list has been removed.

Decisions

Logs

2010-02-22T11:07:09 <tclarke> ok, lets get started with attendance
2010-02-22T11:07:09 <tclarke> here
2010-02-22T11:07:12 <kstreith> here
2010-02-22T11:07:15 <dsulgrov> here
2010-02-22T11:07:18 <rforehan> here
2010-02-22T11:07:18 <gmartin> here
2010-02-22T11:07:25 <tclarke> 1. Attendance
2010-02-22T11:07:25 <tclarke> 2. Announce agenda
2010-02-22T11:07:25 <tclarke> 3. Approve February 8, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
2010-02-22T11:07:25 <tclarke> 4. Discuss 4.4.X development timeline.
2010-02-22T11:07:25 <tclarke> 5. Google Summer of Code 2010
2010-02-22T11:07:25 <tclarke> 6. Open Questions
2010-02-22T11:07:25 <tclarke> 7. Summary and closing
2010-02-22T11:07:30 <tclarke> meeting notes from last time
2010-02-22T11:07:32 <tclarke> http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksChat/February+8%2C+2010+Meeting+Notes
2010-02-22T11:07:36 <tclarke> as usual, let me know if there's a problem
2010-02-22T11:07:38 <goffena> here
2010-02-22T11:07:43 <tclarke> let's get moving on the agenda items...first up is the 4.4.x dev timeline
2010-02-22T11:09:06 <tclarke> 4.3.3rc1 is now out and we are on track for an on-time 4.3.3 final
2010-02-22T11:09:13 <tclarke> kstreith would like to discuss the proposed timeline for 4.4.x development
2010-02-22T11:09:27 <kstreith> as you can see in our bug tracker, 4.4.0 is scheduled for the august timeframe
2010-02-22T11:09:28 <kstreith> https://issues.ballforge.net/jira/browse/OPTICKS#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Aroadmap-panel
2010-02-22T11:09:46 <kstreith> ok, so what then is going into 4.4.X?
2010-02-22T11:09:49 <kstreith> that's still a bit a flux
2010-02-22T11:09:54 <kstreith> but some of the stuff that's been discussed so far include:
2010-02-22T11:11:04 <kstreith> Compiler Upgrade on Windows (from VS 2005 SP1 to VS 2010, it releases in April)
2010-02-22T11:11:14 <kstreith> Qt upgrade to the latest available Qt
2010-02-22T11:11:18 <kstreith> Upgrade to the Boost dependency
2010-02-22T11:11:20 <tclarke> Linux LSB 4.0 compilant build
2010-02-22T11:11:32 <kstreith> some work on re-vamping the Scripting interface used by scripting plug-ins
2010-02-22T11:11:43 <kstreith> keep in mind, all of these are subject to change between now and the 4.4.0 release
2010-02-22T11:11:47 <rforehan> Upgrade the Xerces dependency?
2010-02-22T11:11:49 <kstreith> anyone have anything else they were targeting for possible inclusion?
2010-02-22T11:11:57 <tclarke> xquilla as well as it is tied to xerces
2010-02-22T11:12:01 <tclarke> upgrade gdal
2010-02-22T11:13:21 <tclarke> anybody have any concerns or comments about any of these proposals?
2010-02-22T11:13:35 <tclarke> ok, if there's nothing else to mention right now re: 4.4.x, we'll move on to the next item
2010-02-22T11:13:38 <dadkins> here
2010-02-22T11:13:45 <tclarke> Google summer of code (soc) is approaching again
2010-02-22T11:14:02 <tclarke> we've setup an idea page for projects again this year and I'd like to encourage everyone to fill in details or add new project ideas (we're looking for mentor volunteers as well)
2010-02-22T11:14:05 <tclarke> the page is here:
2010-02-22T11:14:08 <tclarke> http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksDev/Google+Summer+of+Code
2010-02-22T11:15:27 <tclarke> kstreith: when is the submission deadline?
2010-02-22T11:15:39 <kstreith> submission deadline is March 12th and we submit our application starting on March 8th
2010-02-22T11:15:48 <tclarke> now, we are looking for ideas to increase our chance of acceptance this year
2010-02-22T11:16:01 <tclarke> some criticism we received last year include the newness of our public facing soc pages
2010-02-22T11:16:05 <tclarke> and lack of detail on the ideas ot get people started
2010-02-22T11:16:12 <tclarke> I think we also need more detail re: expectations and procedures for a soc student
2010-02-22T11:17:33 <tclarke> I'd suggest we use the various osgeo pages from last year's soc as an example of a good application
2010-02-22T11:17:48 <tclarke> any other thoughts on this?
2010-02-22T11:18:03 <tclarke> ok, open question time
2010-02-22T11:18:06 <tclarke> is there anything to discuss today?
2010-02-22T11:19:34 <tclarke> I'd like to point out the release announcement for 4.3.3rc1
2010-02-22T11:19:46 <tclarke> future release announcements will be made in one location as detailed in the emails which went out
2010-02-22T11:20:04 <tclarke> and the announce@opticks.ballforge.net list will be going away (an rss->email aggregator address is available as mentioned in the announce email)
2010-02-22T11:20:12 <tclarke> make sure you update links, etc. appropriately to ensure you continue to see the announcements