Weekly Planning Meeting, 1/23

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 1/23:

The big congratulations this week go to bobp and hugh. Bobp has 
completed a draft of the Systems Overview Good Enough To Clean 
Up For Wide Distribution. Hugh enhanced the translator so that 
C++ includes are automatically generated from the smalltalk.

Congratulations also go to bill, who implemented callbacks to 
support sensors in stubble.

A special thanks to ravi, who persuaded dean to not write the 
smalltalk change manager himself; dean has already achieved critical 
path status on both the backend and the frontend, he doesn't 
need any more paths :-)
 
Meetings: Hill, markm, bill, discuss converting to new version 
of formic. Roland, bobp, discuss ceran. Bill, markm, security 
hole in stubble. Roland, michael, formic versions. Bobp, markm, 
clubs. Markm, ravi, dean, fix premay semantics. Hugh, dean, cracks 
in fm. Dean, hugh, ravi, minimal fe task set. Ravi, dean, markm, 
meet for stepping through the backfollow orgl. Marcs, dean, joel, 
parc place strategy. Dean, markm, region splay. Dean, michael, 
structured debug on the ent. Michael, dean, break up the ent 
for the disk. Michael, dean, markm, ravi, efficiency of internsets. 
Hugh, dean, roger, generate includes in smalltalk. Markm, hugh, 
dean, visibility & location of pseudoconstructors. Michael, hill, 
roland, standardize stubble. Roger, hugh, dean, ravi discuss 
system independent attributes for the frontends on Wednesday.


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

A.       dean

     1/30/90     unfiltered 1 level backfollow
     1/30/90     figure out when fm will be done
     1/30/90     help roger with translator tricks
     1/30/90     edit a run in fm
     1/30/90     selection display in fm
     2/06/90     second generation of fm done
     2/30/89     allocation sequence numbers
     2/30/89     printing sequence numbers

B.       hill

x    1/23/90     mini hashes for grandmap working
x    1/23/90     merge image with hugh
     1/30/90     make an efficient mutable for the grandmap
     1/30/89     write mail about X++ upgrades and garbage collection

C.       hugh

x    1/23/90     opaque mech for fileout
     1/30/90     build schnerts to hook up fm and waldoes
     2/06/90     make compiles work on the mac
     2/23/90     make tables self copy
     2/23/89     text display from xanadu on mac
     2/30/89     make tables lazy on comm line
     2/30/89     update broadcast

D.       markm

x    1/23/90     working club system not quite secure
x    1/23/90     plugged stubble security leak
     1/30/90     lunch bet on club security
     1/30/90     club febe visibility
     1/30/90     initial doc of public club
     1/30/90     document critical_block macro in X++
     2/06/90     enforcement of clubs
     2/06/90     filtered backfollow
     2/13/90     respond to semantics email
     2/13/90     merge necromancers with dependencies
     2/13/90     merge necromancers with counted pointers
     2/20/90     complete to do list from alpha 3

E.       marcs

x    1/23/90     hugh daniel and cpp for hugh hoover
x    1/23/90     review of hypercode
x    1/23/90     annual budgeting goat rope
     1/30/90     sun smalltalk negotiation with parc place
     1/30/90     3 mac licenses of smalltalk
     1/30/90     infofactory review for amix
     1/30/89     figure out whether links are standalone objects
     2/06/90     finish assessing the issues
     2/06/90     merge algorithm
     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    1/23/90     figure out smalltalk
     1/30/90     figure out ent

G.       ravi

x    1/23/90     fixed regions
x    1/23/90     persuaded dean to not do the change manager
     1/30/90     change management
     1/30/90     D&L to ent for backfollow
     2/13/89     do comm in smalltalk
     2/13/90     tree orgls
     2/13/90     run fe to D & L across LAN on Sun

H.       bobp

x    1/23/90     first draft done, no sensors
     1/30/90     sensors in the overview
     1/30/90     get put on PERT
     1/30/90     overview complete

I.       roger

     1/30/90     type declarations in the ent
     1/30/90     put tops on vlad
     2/06/90     translate fm
     2/06/90     follow a link
     2/13/90     get fm running under open look
     2/13/90     link lists with simple documents in alpha
     2/20/90     traverse to acad, traverse from acad

J.       roland

x    1/23/90     crutch eliminates && expressions
     1/30/90     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    1/30/90     plugged stubble security leak
x    1/30/90     calc working
x    1/30/90     callbacks to support sensors in stubble
     2/06/90     fix exception handling with sensors between comm handlers

K.       Joel

     1/23/90     call dave pollock at parc place
     1/23/90     new info packet draft
     1/23/90     prep presentations for Bechtel and PC Forum

L.       Jacque

x    1/23/90     ken graham competitive searches
     1/30/90     prep to start writing user manual for infofactory

      Rick

x    1/16/90     netwalk, forms demos

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