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Weekly Planning Meeting, 7/17
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- Subject: Weekly Planning Meeting, 7/17
- From: Marc Stiegler <marcs>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 15:33:17 PDT
Highlights 7/17:
The big congratulations this week go to hill, ravi and rick.
Mr. hill found and repaired the big garbage collector usage bug
that had been haunting the system; where it used to require 135MB
of virtual memory to run the server tests, it now takes 6.5 MB.
Mr. hill is continuing the hunt, however: he thinks that about
half of that space is still being wasted. Meanwhile ravi continued
performance improvements on the server; now the server is running
between 3 and 4 times as fast as it had been. And rick upgraded
all the existing Montage code to work with Moose (uh, yeah, there's
a name conflict here: this Moose is the object oriented extension
to Scheme that paul has built;this is not a moose we want to
kill :-)
Congratulations also go to hugh. Hugh has double-click opening
and closing children.
The moose hunter/killer award goes to everyone who contributed
to the discussions of object purging, which includes almost everyone
at Xanadu except the Vice President :-) Last week's moose was
killed quite dead; unfortunately, it bore children before dying,
and so the next big moose is to prevent an unbounded depth of
recursion under worst case conditions while reading/writing to
disk.
The big welcome this week goes to Chris Hibbert, the newest programmer
on the Xanadu team. Chris's main job will be to build elements
of Tapestry that will be shared by all three platforms (sun,
pc, and mac).
Meetings: Chris, markm, stubble shrinkage. Roland, markm, michael,
xlint. Bill, hugh, fix quickmail hard disk. Hill, markm, matching
on underscore. Markm, dean, does not propagating unreadable clubs
optimization overlap delayed installation in ent? Dean, ravi,
roger, hugh, fm stuff. Marcs, chip, 4.1 on Victoria. Michael,
dean, markm, LRU on RAM objects (snarfs, flocks, etc). Markm,
dean, discuss booting.
Anyway, this week's task list is as follows:
A. dean
7/24/90 flush RAM
8/17/90 berts & stamps gc
B. hill
x 7/17/90 find and kill garbage collection usage bug!
7/24/90 pick up another 3MB of RAM from the server
8/10/90 enhance translator with ixx
C. hugh
x 7/17/90 double click open/close children
7/24/90 doing image (2)
7/24/90 implement warp (4)
7/24/90 run compositors (2)
D. markm
x 7/17/90 3 moose hunting meetings
7/24/90 message on overloading
7/24/90 message on garbage collection
7/24/90 write C++ 2.1 report
7/24/90 permission system tester
7/24/90 update canopies
7/30/90 club members (10)
E. marcs
x 7/17/90 negotiate with key logic
7/24/90 investigate xanadu trademark infringement
7/24/90 collect sqa notes
7/24/90 prep round 2 of key logic negotiation
8/24/90 start second round of patenting work
8/30/89 figure out whether links are standalone objects
F. michael
7/24/90 snarf transceiver working
7/30/90 discover size and construct ram object (6)
8/08/90 write Shepherd Stub recipe (4)
8/08/90 teach stubble to shepard stubs, shepherd recipe (2)
8/15/90 chameleon stubs (12)
G. ravi
x 7/17/90 accelerate server by 3x
7/24/90 fix up fm for building user views of permissions
H. bobp
7/24/90 review issues in SXI
7/24/90 implement SXI
I. roger
7/24/90 scroll bars in tapestry
7/24/90 make fonts work
7/24/90 xanatext in xwindows
J. roland
7/24/90 run xlint over all of xanadu
7/24/90 xlint check for assign to a parameter variable and assignment to "this"
7/26/90 fix stubble for 1-way connections for dean
7/26/90 xlint look for missing redundant curlies
7/30/90 write grammar for formic
K. Bill
7/24/90 merge with michael
7/24/90 make garbage collector work across lan
7/24/90 figure proxy level protocol
7/24/90 figure out dependencies
L. Joel
M. Jacque
7/10/90 new flat view scroll bars
M. Chris
7/24/90 spin up
N. Rick
x 7/17/90 ditch old oops based minibrowser, replace with Moose
7/24/90 models for manipulators
7/24/90 fix scheme garbage collector
7/24/90 finish basic graphic window
O. Paul
x 7/10/90 class system working
7/17/90 fix binding instance variables
P. Andy
x 7/17/90 got OS/2 up and running
7/24/90 SIOD running under OS/2 with lots of objects
7/24/90 figure out how to port elk to OS/2
8/17/90 port elk to OS/2
L. Small Tasks List
Cleanup region code
Sequence # in smalltalk, dean & michael versions
Test files
L. Deferred Meetings:
Bill, michael, NEWS versions.
Roger, hugh, reproducible Tapestry tests.
discuss stubble for ADI with autodesk
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
tutorial for users on the frontend
reference manual for users on the frontend
test scaffolding, code exercisers
--marcs