Weekly Planning Meeting, 11/13

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 11/13:

The big congratulations this week go to hugh, ravi, and hill. 
Mr. hill has the server accepting multiple connections across 
a LANJ(though, uh, it still isn't quite robust enough for rick 
and the Montage team :-). Ravi has networking running under MS-DOS 
so we can hook to the server (though there's still a long, long 
way to go to having an MS-DOS application networked to the server 
:-)

And hugh has a minimal functional linkend window working for 
Tapestry. In this window, we maintain a list of link ends, which 
the user can mix and match into links as he sees fit.Though this 
is a simple and intuitive concept that does not need any of the 
special features of the Xanadu Server for support, it is nonetheless 
easier and faster for making multiple links than any method supplied 
by any currently marketed hypertext system. 

Even in the little things, we leap ahead of the state of the 
art :-)

Congratulations also go to markm and michael. Michael has the 
snarf handling code back up to, uh, where it was before the recent 
redesign :-) And Markm has started documenting for real. He had 
1% of the classes and methods already documented by the time 
of the meeting, and he'd only been at it for a few hours :-)

Meetings: Ravi, michael, transceivers, strings. Roland, chris, 
methods without message sends. Hill, chris, markm, packObits 
ordering. Michael, roland, a const test. Dean, michael, where 
to ask for hash value. Roger, forward const note from news to 
markm. markm, dean, hugh, italics in smalltalk. Markm, marcs, 
adjust rates for documentation victory bells. Roger, dean, hugh, 
ravi, fm update events. Joel, mlb, incorporation of factories 
in developer pack, for Key Logic negotiation. Dean, michael, 
remaining divergence in snarfs. Bill, marcs, discuss 4.1 upgrade. 
Markm, michael, et. al, hiding virtuals. Hugh, michael, bugs 
in sets. Roger, markm, backup vlad. Roland, michael, the return 
of a const parameter in C. Roger, ravi, where font info lies. 



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

A.       dean

     11/20/90     make everything compile
     11/20/90     add forgotten count to snarfs
     11/20/90     add rest home clean up to snarf packer
     11/23/90     remember what doesn't work in signals

B.       hill

x    11/13/90     server accepts multiple connections
x    11/13/90     fix socket memory leak
     11/20/90     new server for Montage team
     11/20/90     hack cpp in front of formic
C.       hugh

x    11/13/90     making links in the linkend window
     11/20/90     testing tools
     11/20/90     integrate linkend window

D.       markm

x    11/13/90     start documentation
     11/20/90     document 200 classes and methods
     12/20/90     message on overloading
     12/20/90     constructor bombs in smalltalk
     12/27/90     tests for clubs

E.       marcs

x    11/13/90     start gearing up adesk depts for xana effort next year
     11/20/90     get chris allen for interview
     11/28/90     collect sqa notes
     11/28/90     start second round of patenting work
     11/30/89     figure out whether links are standalone objects

F.       michael

     11/20/90     bring urdi up to alpha 9
     11/20/90     interface to urdi
     11/20/90     viewhandler: connect to dean's stuff

G.       ravi

x    11/13/90     pc server problems identified
     11/27/90     minispire implemented in C
     11/30/90     add wait for open to gatekeeper since sensors work (from markm list)

I.       roger

x    11/13/90     doesn't blow till it writes to X
     11/20/90     merge ravi's whole application

J.       roland

     11/20/90     print blast list for documentation effort
     11/20/90     write translator for C++ to documentation 
     11/20/90     enhance crutch to be wheelchair

K.       Bill

     11/20/90     upgrade suns to 4.1

L.       Joel

     12/21/90     find replacement for bobp

M.       Chris

     11/20/90     locking classes
     11/20/90     keep track of disks, stubble code
     11/20/90     figure out sys admin
     11/30/90     display a version compare

N.       Rick

x    11/13/90     PERT chart

O.       Paul

     11/13/90     scheduler design for montage

P.       Andy

     10/30/90     figure out sun windows
     11/07/90     Port Rick's sunview interface
     11/30/90     Investigate SIOW for main tty window
     11/30/90     browser

Q.       Rob

x    11/13/90     got car :-)

L.       Small Tasks List

    add newlines to the smalltalk transcripts
    Cleanup region code
    Sequence # in smalltalk, dean & michael versions
    Test files
    fix stubble for 1-way connections for dean


L.       Deferred Meetings:

     Chris, hugh, schnerts.
     After First Dev Release, markm, chris, deletion of actual 
               object, propagate comm properly
     Roger, hugh, reproducible Tapestry tests.
     discuss stubble for ADI with autodesk
     Dean, michael, structured debug on the ent.
     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.
     Hill, markm, matching on underscore.
     Markm, dean, does not propagating unreadable clubs optimization 
              overlap delayed installation in ent?
     Michael, dean, markm, LRU on RAM objects (snarfs, flocks, etc).

M.       Unassigned

     incremental gc during perf eng
     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