Weekly Planning Meeting, 9/6

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 9/06:

The big congratulations this past week go to dean and hill. Besides 
knocking off a host of smaller problems, Mr. Hill got iterators 
working in C++ well enough to implement simple tuples with them. 
Dean completed sensor canopies this week, another step on the 
way to completion of the ent, and also did the prototype of compositors 
for outlining for roger's frontend (hugh tells me that he even 
plans to use these compositors for the Mac frontend, they'll 
be easier to use than any Mac tools).

A big welcome this week goes to Ron McElhaney. Ron is now on 
the "us" mail group; he'll be down Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 
to meet everyone.

Meetings: Roger, hill, discuss debug breakpoints outside of main. 
Dean, roger, discuss adding trace to translator. Michael, dean, 
discuss the new regression testing concepts. Bob, marcs, spin 
up on the development effort. Dean, markm, discuss partial orgls. 
 Dean, hill, discuss infinity.  Bob, joel, marcs, discuss the 
2 kinds of inclusion lists and their ramifications. Roger, markm, 
discuss the parallel make hack. Ravi, talk to Nat about a Windows 
interface from 2.0. Hugh, markm, discuss inclusion lists in the 
backend. Hill, markm, michael, meet to merge stuff Friday. Roger, 
markm, discuss 88.1 libraries. Marcs, hugh, ravi, roger, dean 
discuss the representation of berts for users. Markm, joel, marcs, 
comparison of object oriented databases and xanadu. MIchael, 
marcs, discuss PERT.

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

A.     dean

x    9/06/89     sensor canopy
x    9/06/89     overloading in smalltalk
x    9/06/89     outline compositors
     9/12/89     send markm tables stuff
     9/12/89     help hill repair iterators
     9/12/89     solve bugs in partial orgls
     9/12/89     bombs in smalltalk
     9/12/89     update mechanism broadcasting edit changes to dependents
     9/12/89     specify ent test tools
     9/19/89     partial orgls
     9/19/89     translate enclosures
     9/26/89     virtual subtrees

B.      hill

x    9/06/89     plugged more memory leaks
x    9/06/89     fixed smart allocator
x    9/06/89     simple tuples dones as iterators in C++
x    9/06/89     hash table side effect set
     9/12/89     publish alpha 2
     9/12/89     merge with markm
     9/12/89     implement asTupleNoDuplicates
     9/12/89     fully replace tuples with iterators
     9/19/89     change formic, no recipe for deferred copy
     9/19/89     rehack make file for "incremental" links
     9/26/89     replace regions with enclosures
     9/26/89     grandmap

C.       hugh

     9/12/89     waldo for inclusion lists
     9/12/89     port X++ and Doc & links to Mac
     9/19/89     integrate FE with Alpha

D.       markm

x    9/06/89     finish testing doc & links
x    9/06/89     fix link oriented unfiltered backfollow
     9/12/89     initialized fluid variables
     9/12/89     do merge with hill, michael
     9/12/89     re assess priorities
     9/12/89     filtered backfollow
     9/19/89     scenario documents with dean
     9/19/89     merge necromancers with dependencies
     9/19/89     merge necromancers with counted pointers
     9/19/89     implement follow
     9/19/89     garbage collect orgls & berts

E.       marcs

x    9/06/89     start prep for budget review
x    9/06/89     list known items to go on bob perez plate
x    9/06/89     smalltalk licenses
     9/12/89     spin up bob on FE design, status of documentation
     9/12/89     complete part 2 of the doc & link layer documentation
     9/12/89     beat sun about catalyst
     9/12/89     understand current budget status very well
     9/19/89     rough draft of AMIX/Xanadu frontend comparison
     9/29/89     rough draft AMIX/Xanadu integration plan
     9/29/89     racetrack
     10/29/89     start second round of patenting work

F.       michael

     9/12/89     URDI complete for sun 4

G.       ravi

x    9/06/89     switched TCP/IP packages
x    9/06/89     learned more common view
     9/12/89     verify pc-nfs mangles double case file names
     9/12/89     get X++ file names truncated for PC
     9/12/89     compile X++ stuff
     9/12/89     assess using 2.0
     9/12/89     stubble interface

H.       bob

     9/12/89     read us mail, watch videos, listen to explanations, spin up
     9/12/89     prepare task list for PERT chart

I.       roger

     9/12/89     find pcitures of pieces of shared code
     9/12/89     scrolling windows under C++
     9/12/89     variable fonts with nonoptimal redisplay
     9/12/89     textedit working
     9/12/89     link editing
     9/19/89     link lists with simple documents in alpha

J.       roland

x    9/05/89     optimize xlint
     9/12/89     get formic working with 2.0
     9/12/89     integrate parser with formic
     9/12/89     whole first-generation xlint operational
     9/12/89     concurrency/exceptions in stubble
     9/19/89     deal with multifile xlint
     9/19/89     run prealpha through xlint
     9/26/89     automatic documenter
     9/12/89     write morphic for parameterized checking of "ofs"

K.       Bill

     9/12/89     fix whole backup system
     9/12/89     fix fester for roland: remove from yellow pages?
     9/12/89     talk to kari about pennsylvania

J.       Lars

     9/06/89     summarize the art of negotiation

K.       Joel

x    9/06/89     paperwork for bob
x    9/06/89     straighten out jacque's employment
     9/12/89     spin up bob
     9/12/89     put bob perez on the pert chart
     9/12/89     graphics designer for new brochure
     9/12/89     networld in dallas
     9/12/89     plan for autofact
     9/12/89     agenda for lizzy
     9/30/89     learnt client vsserver vs xanadu
     9/30/89     new brochure (?)

L.       Deferred Meetings:

     joel, marcs, discuss terminology in X++ for developer release 

(particularly necromancers and relate dtools)
     Ravi, roger, discuss common view. 

M.       Unassigned

     integrating ent is a nasty problem
     tell stroustrup about bombs in 2.0
     How well will canopy rebalancing perform?
     Hire Developer Support Person
     Document X++
     Tumblers as subclass of partiallyOrdered
     tutorial for users on the frontend
     reference manual for users on the frontend
     test scaffolding, code exercisers
     rollin, rollout a la Univac
     subaccounts, permissions on FE
     sys admin, i.e., archiving and partitioning disks
    programmer's example

--marcs