Weekly Planning Meeting, 11/14

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 11/14:

The big congratulations this past week go to hill, who got garbage 
collection working in tuples.

Congratulations also go to roger, who was able to retrieve a 
whole (though very small) Xanadu document and display it as composited 
text, and to roland, for adding permit/require to xlint. 

Meetings: Goodness! We seem to have wiped out most of the meetings. 
Ravi, dean, talk about ent interface. Roger, hugh, dean, discuss 
system independent attributes for the frontends.


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

A.       dean

x    11/14/89     fix translator for garbage collection
     11/28/89     partial orgls
     11/29/89     upgrade regression test support
     11/29/89     translate enclosures
     11/29/89     figure out how to generate commands to xlint in smalltalk
     12/05/89     virtual subtrees
     12/05/89     specify ent test tools
     12/12/89     merge ent into alpha!!
     12/19/89     controllers for frontends

B.       hill

x    11/14/89     garbage collection working in tuples
     11/21/89     garbage collector complete
     11/21/89     write mail about X++ upgrades
     11/28/89     confirm functioning of garbage collection
     11/28/89     merge ravi stuff into alpha
     12/06/89     turn length into count everywhere
     12/06/89     replace regions with enclosures
     12/13/89     fix exception handling with sensors between comm handlers
     12/13/89     merge ent into alpha!!

C.       hugh

x    11/14/89     regions done
     11/21/89     build cache for alpha performance
     11/21/89     merge tables etc into alpha
     11/28/89     update broadcast
     11/28/89     integrate FE with Alpha

D.       markm

x    11/14/89     fix roger's bug
     11/21/89     fix frozen bert grab
     11/21/89     slut implementation of gatekeepers
     11/28/89     filtered backfollow
     11/28/89     respond to semantics email
     12/06/89     merge necromancers with dependencies
     12/06/89     merge necromancers with counted pointers
     12/06/89     complete to do list from alpha 3
     12/06/89     spin up michael

E.       marcs
    
x    11/14/89     figure out what to trademark
x    11/14/89     prototype the menus in the infofactory
x    11/14/89     talk to sun hypercardclone group
     11/15/89     international manager's meeting
     11/15/89     Q&As for walt spevak
     11/21/89     start spinning up jo tampas on infofactory
     11/21/89     look for may semantics slides
     11/21/89     figure out how to repair email concept
     11/29/89     michael's employment agreement
     12/05/89     figure out whether links are first class objects
     12/24/89     rough draft of AMIX/Xanadu frontend comparison
     12/31/89     rough draft AMIX/Xanadu integration plan
     12/31/89     start second round of patenting work

F.       michael

x    11/14/89     hand bjarne version of bombs to hill
x    11/14/89     made regression test not sensitive to moving region
     11/21/89     find new/delete inversion in bomb test
     11/28/89     dean style, michael style regression testing
     11/28/89     refcount experiment

G.       ravi

x    11/14/89     analyze task list on smalltalk interface
     11/21/89     translate tables to C++
     11/28/89     merge tables into current fe stuff
     12/06/89     merge tables into current febe stuff
     12/13/89     design extra doc&links protocol to hide orgls&berts
     12/20/89     waldo to data model with link schnert
     12/27/89     proxify D&L classes
     01/03/90     put D&L in smalltalk
     01/17/89     do comm in smalltalk

H.       bobp

x    11/14/89     talk to CE software
x    11/14/89     talk to sun hypercardclone group
     11/21/89     get put on PERT
     11/21/89     write xanadu system overview
     11/28/89     talk to terry winograd

I.       roger

x    11/14/89     get xanadu doc up as composited text
x    11/14/89     menus up on the NEXT
     11/21/89     menus up on the Sun
     11/21/89     integrate regions
     11/21/89     scrolling windows under C++
     11/28/89     link lists with simple documents in alpha
     11/28/89     follow a link
     12/05/89     traverse to acad, traverse from acad

J.       roland

x    11/14/89     permit/require in xlint
     11/21/89     disjunction in formic
     11/21/89     write grammar for formic
     11/21/89     parser with expression semantics
     11/28/89     xlint check for assign to a parameter variable and assignment to "this"
     11/28/89     automatic documenter

K.       Bill

x    11/14/89     kill core files after 48 hours
x    11/14/89     evaluate NFS accelerator
x    11/14/89     fix whole backup system
     11/21/89     test whole backup

J.       Lars

     12/31/89     mockup infofactory in supercard

K.       Joel

x    11/07/89     talk to sybase people
x    11/14/89     comdex
     11/15/89     international managers meeting

L.       Deferred Meetings:

     Markm, hill, discuss explicit deletion of orgls & refcount deletion. 
     Markm, hill, discuss exception handling on sensors between comm handlers.
     Dean, roger, michael, markm, discuss sequence numbers of size 4 billion. 
     Dean, markm, discuss intersecting backfollow ideas. 
     joel, marcs, discuss terminology in X++ for developer release 
(particularly necromancers and related tools)
     Ravi, roger, discuss common view.

M.       Unassigned

     scenario documents (markm, dean
     integrating ent is a nasty problem
     How well will canopy rebalancing perform?
     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

--marcs