Kepler Leadership Conference Call 2010-12-02
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Participants
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Matt, Tim, Bertram, Mark, Ilkay, Christopher
Agenda items:
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1. Update: development activities for Kepler/CORE from UCD and UCSD
-- David (100% through Sep 2011)
-- working on release installers, automating it from the build
-- also improvements to the module manager
-- used IzPack for win, tarball for linux, dmg for mac
-- Jainwu and Madhu (50% Madhu, 50% Manish, 20% of Jianwu through May 2011)
-- helped with 2.2 release on Memory leak problems
-- would like to work on integrating provenance systems, and on Kepler itself
-- work on making distributed framework more defined and implemented in Kepler
-- Aaron
-- 3 months, 100 % FTE
-- starts next week
2. Discussion: Kepler 2.2 development update and release plans
-- https://kepler-project.org/developers/teams/build/kepler-2.2-release-roadmap/
-- http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=2.2.0&product=Kepler
-- The dates for 2.2 are in https://kepler-project.org/developers/teams/build/kepler-release-roadmap/?searchterm=roadmap
-- David will be release coordinator for 2.2
-- Feature freeze Jan 15, release Feb 15, depending on estimates of hours by developers
3. Proposal: Kepler should require Java 1.6 for all platforms starting with the Kepler 2.2 release. For background, see the discussion thread on this issue on kepler-dev.
-- Decsion: require 1.6 -- doesn't drop too many users, simplifies deployment
Action items
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-- TODO: Matt will send JDK 1.6 decision to kepler-dev
-- TODO: Tim to contact David about estimating bug hours for 2.2 release
-- TODO: Ilkay to contact Jianwu, Madhu, Manish about updating bug estimates for 2.2. release
-- TODO: Matt to Doodle the next LT call