Weekly Planning Meeting, 4/17

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 4/17:

The big congratulations this week go to rick, who has his doc 
viewer working, and his list viewer, and his list controller, 
and his menu controller. Rick is pressing so fast into a position 
where he'll need a Xanadu to work with, it's delightful. And 
a special thanks goes to rick as well, since he saved the Autodesk-based 
Xanadians from the turmoil of moving to 3Harbor :-)

Congratulations also go to ravi and hugh. Ravi is running febe 
over the LAN now, and hugh has implemented the text attribute 
model (the text attribute model is a piece needed to answer one 
of the Top Ten Trauma from the Capabilities review, the issue 
with representing character and paragraph styles; yes, it seems 
we can make progress even on the most divisive issues in the 
list :-). 

Congratulations to everyone on holding one of the shortest meetings 
we have ever held :-)

Meetings: Bobp, marcs, discuss resources for finishing documentation. 
Hugh, dean, roger fm event code. Hugh, michael, finding changes 
in smalltalk. Markm, call randy smith for rick setup. 

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

A.       dean

     4/24/90     2d regions
     4/24/90     compile fm with roger
     4/24/90     fix portions in fm for roger
     4/31/90     inclusion list coord space
     4/27/90     design archiving
     5/27/90     allocation sequence numbers
     5/27/90     printing sequence numbers

B.       hill

x    4/17/90     exit time package
x    4/17/90     initialization package
x    4/17/90     hierarchy trees in the browser
     4/24/90     integrate ravi's new tofu
     4/24/90     makefiles for febe lib, initlib, etc.
     4/24/90     external interface for bobp
     4/30/89     write mail about X++ upgrades and garbage collection
     4/31/90     turn new X++ into a release

C.       hugh

x    4/17/90     attributed text models
     4/24/90     X++ running on Mac
     4/24/90     finish attribute design
     4/31/90     get variants working in link pane

D.       markm

     4/31/90     initial doc of public club
     4/31/90     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

     4/24/90     notes on hypermedia/multimedia linkup
     4/24/90     draft of "why true links are hard to do"
     4/24/90     start second round of patenting work
     4/30/89     figure out whether links are standalone objects
     5/17/90     tapestry mockup in open look
     5/30/90     discuss stubble for ADI with autodesk

F.       michael

x    4/10/90     write data from smalltalk
x    4/17/90     byte arrays i/o working
     4/31/90     fix translator for urdi
     4/31/90     put urdi under smalltalk
     5/27/90     figure out ent

G.       ravi

x    4/17/90     run fe/be across the wire
     4/24/90     names on methods, and 1.2MB of space
     4/24/90     put revert into change manager
     4/24/90     get febe to compile again
     4/24/90     make febe run over stubble
     4/31/90     props, canopies
     5/24/90     build builders

H.       bobp

x    4/17/90     macworld
x    4/17/90     update autodesk trainers
     4/24/90     ship bound sys overview
     5/17/90     sensors in the overview

I.       roger

     4/24/90     get fm running under open look

J.       roland

     4/31/90     install better parser
     4/31/90     fix line numbering in crtuch
     5/17/90     run ceran over the whole world
     5/30/90     write grammar for formic
     5/30/90     parser with expression semantics
     5/30/90     xlint check for assign to a parameter variable and assignment to "this"
     5/28/90     automatic documenter

K.       Bill

     4/17/90     work toward a yacc that parses C++
     4/17/90     figure out the backup setup

K.       Joel

x    4/10/90     new info packet

L.       Jacque

     4/24/90     start maintaining the infofactory documentation
     4/24/90     prep to start writing user manual for infofactory

L.       Rick

x    4/17/90     doc view, list viewer
x    4/17/90     controllers
     4/24/90     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