Weekly Planning Meeting, 4/10

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 4/10:

The big congratulations this week go to joel and markm. Markm finished 
the new regions code and crossed coordinate spaces, while joel finished 
the second draft of the new information packet. I have reviewed joel's 
new packet, and I must say, this is a wonderful improvement on both the 
first draft and on the old packet--it packs a lot of punch. I'm eager to 
start sending it out.

Congratulations also go to ravi, hugh, and dean and roger. Ravi has Docs 
& Links compiling in C++. Dean and roger have 43 of the 45 classes in fm 
compiling in C++. Hugh can now backfollow for documents as well as 
links, though the result is not quite yet visible in the link pane.

Special condolences in addition to congratulations go to rick, who 
completed the first round of PERT charting for Montage. Programming is 
phenomenally more fun, isn't it? :-)

Meetings: Bobp, marcs, discuss resources for finishing documentation. 
Ravi, bill, discuss C++ interface to the backend. Hill, ravi, discuss 
X++ for rick. Roger, dean, ravi, et. al., names on methods. Hugh, dean, 
roger fm event code. Hugh, michael, finding changes in smalltalk. Dean, 
marcs, call markm to call randy. Rick, ravi, interface through sockets. 
Hugh, marcs, next task selection. Markm, call randy smith for rick 
setup. 

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

A.       dean

     4/17/90     2d regions
     4/17/90     compile fm with roger
     4/17/90     fix portions in fm for roger
     4/20/90     inclusion list coord space
     4/27/90     design archiving
     5/27/90     allocation sequence numbers
     5/27/90     printing sequence numbers

B.       hill

     4/17/90     adapt to markm's new regions
     4/17/90     turn new X++ into a release
     4/17/90     external interface for bobp
     4/30/89     write mail about X++ upgrades and garbage collection

C.       hugh

 x   4/10/90     backfollow for variants
 x   4/27/90     correct model's protocol
     4/17/90     get variants working in link pane

D.       markm

x    4/10/90     regions working in C++
x    4/10/90     crossed coord spaces
     4/24/90     initial doc of public club
     4/24/90     enforcement of clubs
     4/31/90     lunch bet on club security
     5/24/90     complete to do list from alpha 3
     5/27/90     respond to semantics email

E.       marcs

x    4/10/90     prep for ron monthly meeting
x    4/10/90     finish merge algorithm in scheme
     4/17/90     tapestry mockup in open look
     4/24/90     start second round of patenting work
     4/27/90     merge algorithm
     4/30/89     figure out whether links are standalone objects
     4/30/90     discuss stubble for ADI with autodesk

F.       michael

     4/10/90     write data from smalltalk
     4/17/90     fix translator for urdi
     4/17/90     put urdi under smalltalk
     4/27/90     figure out ent

G.       ravi

x    4/10/90     docs & links compiling
     4/17/90     put revert into change manager
     4/17/90     run fe/be across the wire
     4/24/90     props, canopies
     4/24/90     build builders

H.       bobp

     4/17/90     ship bound sys overview
     5/17/90     sensors in the overview

I.       roger

     4/24/90     get fm running under open look

J.       roland

     4/17/90     install better parser
     4/17/90     fix line numbering in crtuch
     4/17/90     run ceran over the whole world
     4/30/90     write grammar for formic
     4/30/90     parser with expression semantics
     4/30/90     xlint check for assign to a parameter variable and assignment to "this"
     4/28/90     automatic documenter

K.       Bill

     4/17/90     work toward a yacc that parses C++
x    4/13/90     nowait interaction with letter bombs
x    4/13/90     integrate with X++
     4/17/90     figure out the backup setup

K.       Joel

x    4/10/90     new info packet

L.       Jacque

     4/17/90     start maintaining the infofactory documentation
     4/17/90     prep to start writing user manual for infofactory

L.       Rick

x    4/10/90     PERT chart
     4/17/90     doc view, list viewer
     4/17/90     controllers
     4/17/90     round 2 with key logic

L.       Small Tasks List

    Cleanup region code
    Sequence # in smalltalk, dean & michael versions
    Test files

L.       Deferred Meetings:

     Bobp, joel, marcs, discuss Apple and smalltalk. 
     Marcs, dean, joel, parc place strategy. 
     Dean, michael, structured debug on the ent. 
     Michael, dean, break up the ent for the disk on Tuesday.  
    Michael, dean, markm, ravi, efficiency of internsets.
     Roger,, hugh, dean, ravi discuss system independent 
            attributes for the frontends  after fm does paragraphs.
     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
     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