Weekly Planning Meeting, 1/9

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 1/9:

The big congratulations this week go to markm and dean, who integrated 
the ent with orgls & berts and clubs this past week (as a sneak 
preview of next week, there will be a really humongous congratulation 
to dean and markm and ravi, for integrating enough of docs & 
links and FM, also in smalltalk, to get editable text integrated 
to the ent). This integration is occuring in smalltalk, which 
isn't exactly the path we had planned for integrating the pieces. 
But it seems to be working wonderfully, even after discounting 
some wonderfulness because we'll still have to translate most 
of it to C++. Anyway, both frontend and backend development should 
accelerate tremendously--already have accelerated tremendously, 
if this past week is any measure.

Meetings: Markm, dean, ravi, bring hill up to speed on what they've 
done to hill's life. Dean, ravi, markm, discuss work types. Ravi, 
marcs, discuss sensors in docs & links. Michael, dean markm, 
do vlad. Michael, hill, roland, standardize stubble. Roger, michael, 
bill, a working shar.  Michael, bobp, Mac partitions. Markm, 
give roger screenplay regression generator. Roger, roland, discuss 
formic & fluid variables. Version 2 of the infinity meeting on 
Wednesday. Roger, hugh, dean, ravi discuss system independent 
attributes for the frontends.


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

A.       dean

x    1/09/90     fuild variables in smalltalk
x    1/09/90     integrate ent with berts&orgls
     1/16/90     integrate ent with docs & links
     1/16/90     text edit in fm
     1/16/90     selection display in fm
     1/23/90     second generation of fm done
     1/24/89     allocation sequence numbers
     1/24/89     printing sequence numbers
     1/24/90     merge ent into alpha!!

B.       hill

x    1/09/90     repair tables
     1/16/90     make an efficient mutable for the grandmap
     1/16/90     get waldo test working
     1/16/90     merge ent into alpha!!
     1/23/89     write mail about X++ upgrades and garbage collection
     1/23/89     basket & grandmap use garbage collection
     1/30/90     fix exception handling with sensors between comm handlers

C.       hugh

     1/23/90     make tables self copy
     1/23/89     text display from xanadu on mac
     1/30/89     make tables lazy on comm line
     1/30/89     update broadcast

D.       markm

x    1/09/90     integrate ent with berts & orgls & clubs
     1/16/90     finish clubs
     1/30/90     filtered backfollow
     1/30/90     respond to semantics email
     1/30/90     merge necromancers with dependencies
     1/30/90     merge necromancers with counted pointers
     1/23/90     fix frozen bert grab
     2/06/90     complete to do list from alpha 3

E.       marcs

x    1/09/90     prep for monthly meeting with ron
x    1/09/90     25% of capability issues assessed and loaded in database
x    1/09/90     bring back the 8mm video deck
x    1/09/90     more ram for hill
     1/16/90     finish assessing the issues
     1/16/90     computers for jacque and rick
     1/16/90     annual budgeting goat rope
     1/16/90     3 mac licenses of smalltalk
     1/23/89     figure out whether links are first class objects
     2/24/90     rough draft of AMIX/Xanadu frontend comparison
     2/24/90     rough draft AMIX/Xanadu integration plan
     2/24/90     start second round of patenting work

F.       michael

x    1/09/90     get sun boards running
     1/16/90     start ent to urdi interface
     1/16/90     send mail about constructor bug

G.       ravi

     1/16/90     proxify D&L classes
     1/23/90     put D&L in smalltalk
     1/23/90     waldo to data model with link schnert
     1/30/89     do comm in smalltalk

H.       bobp

     1/16/90     links in the overview
     1/16/90     ship links & permissions to london
     1/30/90     sensors in the overview
     1/30/90     get put on PERT
     1/30/90     overview complete

I.       roger

     1/16/90     translate fm
     1/23/90     get fm running under open look
     1/23/90     hook alpha 4 to current frontend
     1/30/90     follow a link
     2/06/90     link lists with simple documents in alpha
     2/14/90     traverse to acad, traverse from acad

J.       roland

x    1/09/90     make formic faster
     1/23/90     eliminate && || in C++
     1/30/90     write grammar for formic
     1/30/90     parser with expression semantics
     1/30/90     xlint check for assign to a parameter variable and assignment to "this"
     2/28/90     automatic documenter

K.       Bill

x    12/05/89    fix thinLAN

K.       Joel

     1/23/90     new info packet draft
     1/23/90     prep presentations for Bechtel and PC Forum

L.       Jacque

     1/16/90     ken graham competitive searches
     1/16/90     draft short summary of the capability review

L.       Deferred Meetings:

     Roland, dean, discuss xlint commands in smalltalk. 
     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

     merge contact databases
     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