Planning Meeting, 6/27

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

As I prepared today for the July 4 Planning Meeting, I discovered that I 
forgot to mail out the results of last week's planning meeting. So
here it is; my apologies to everyone. The 7/4 planning meeting
summary will be out in a couple of days.

Highlights:

The big congratulations this week go to roland and bill. Congratulations 
to roland aren't for a particular milestone this time; rather, 
it's a congratulation on how well stubble is working. Everyone 
is finding that they can stubblify new objects quickly and painlessly, 
even if stubble wasn't designed specifically for the job. Congratulations 
to bill are for the best backup system I have ever encountered 
on a project; the Xanadu backup system is now operational even 
if it isn't fully checked out. The system not only does daily 
automatic incremental backups, and not only does whole system 
backups, but it also keeps day-old versions of files on-line, 
so that if someone mangles the current version by accident, they 
can get a recent version without even bothering the system administrator.

Congratulations also go to hill and hugh, who worked with roland 
on stubble.

Meetings: Marcs, michael need to discuss the PERT. Marcs and 
Roland need to discuss the PERT. Dean, Markm, michael, and hill 
need to discuss fluid variables. Markm, talk with robin about 
backfollow of endorsed objects of specified type. Hugh, roger 
need to discuss common code. Roland, michael need to discuss 
fester crashes. 

Roland, remember that xlint should complain if there is no virtual 
destructor in every proxy section.


Anyway, this week's task list is as follows:

A.     dean

x    6/27/89     break new ent into PERT pieces
     7/03/89     complete enhanced c++ translator

B.      hill

x    6/27/89     released bug fix version of prealpha
x    6/27/89     episode scavenging compiled
     7/03/89     episode scavenging tested
     7/03/89     session scavenging
     7/05/89     put blast shields everywhere
     7/10/89     session-persistent scavenging
     7/10/89     put in destructors for all proxy objects

C.       hugh

x    6/27/89     air traffic control
     7/03/89     textedit remote to backend
     7/03/89     flat document viewer

D.       markm

x    6/27/89     adequate berts&orgls for doc&links
     7/04/89     spec document layer
     7/25/89     doc & links implemented
     8/02/89     merge x++ fixes with hill's

E.       marcs

x    6/27/89     finish June/July PERT chart
x    6/27/89     taught ted collaborative writing
x    6/27/89     mailed catalyst stuff
     7/04/89     talk with esther dyson
     7/04/89     discuss marketing with rob
     7/04/89     continue the ms windows search
     7/04/89     xanaspeak glossary
     7/14/89     rough draft of AMIX/Xanadu frontend comparison
     7/28/89     rough draft AMIX/Xanadu integration plan
     7/14/89     racetrack
     8/14/89     start second round of patenting work

F.       michael

x    6/27/89     walk through of urdi with hill
x    6/27/89     networking repaired
     7/03/89     URDI complete for sun 4
     7/10/89     teach everyone structured debug

G.       roger

     6/27/89     class definitions for textedit
     7/03/89     textedit working
     7/03/89     outline common portions of code with hugh
     7/03/89     implement draft document layer
     7/10/89     link editing
     7/10/89     comparison working with bogus
     7/17/89     walker FE in C++, version 2, with bogus

H.       roland

x    6/20/89     semiformal spec xlint++
     7/03/89     minimal xlint operational
     7/07/89     whole first-generation xlint operational
     7/10/89     automatic documenter
     7/17/89     concurrency/exceptions in stubble
     7/24/89     write morphic for parameterized checking of 
"ofs"

I.       Bill

x    6/27/89     backup system operational

J.       Lars

x    6/15/89     go to europe for 4 weeks

K.       Joel

x    6/27/89     see hyperexpo
     7/04/89     meetings with rob
     7/01/89     draft mkt plan

L.       Unassigned

     Tumblers as subclass of partiallyOrdered
     pc frontend
     tutorial for users on the frontend
     reference manual for users on the frontend
     make sure memory reclaimed properly
     test scaffolding, code exercisers
     rollin, rollout a la Univac
     subaccounts, permissions on FE
     sys admin, i.e., archiving and partitioning disks
     do we need object-pascal stubble?
     programmer's example
     encryption stuff (postBeta, maybe post release)
          study stanford key distribution system, licensing
          find single key system we trust
          find encryption hash we trust
          find authentication we trust

--marcs