Weekly Planning Meeting, 3/13

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 3/13:

The big congratulations this week go to ravi, who completed the 
last pieces that we know we need to support a First Extremely 
Limited Integration of AutoCAD and Xanadu. No one should hold 
their breath waiting for the actual integration, however: things 
are pretty hectic in AutoCAD land these days, with matters of 
considerably greater urgency than our extremely limited integration.
Ravi will be talking with Greg to find out what other pieces we
need to build for the integration; I'm sure we're missing a 
couple :-)

A late-breaking big congratulations goes to hugh, who has a LinkEnd 
window working: you can turn selected regions of text into LinkEnds, 
set their descriptors, and run a link between them. One hitch 
currently remains: hugh found a bug in filtered backfollow, so 
you can't see the link after you've created it. But it's there, 
we are quite sure :-) 

Meetings: Roger, rick, discuss scheme upgrade. Hill, roland, 
look at another crutch problem. Michael, marcs, cache link at 
both ends. Markm, find Z-stip paper for rick. Ravi, dean, rick, 
markm, unify view builder and waldo maker. Hill, Roland, michael, 
discuss crutch.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. 


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

A.       dean

     3/27/90     design archiving
     4/20/90     inclusion list coord space
     4/27/90     allocation sequence numbers
     4/27/90     printing sequence numbers

B.       hill

x    3/06/90     primArray in C++
     3/20/90     X++ implementation of the primAray
     2/30/89     write mail about X++ upgrades and garbage collection

C.       hugh

x    3/13/90     make a link
x    3/20/90     iconify linking
     3/27/90     correct model's protocol
     3/30/89     update broadcast

D.       markm

     3/20/90     regions and crossed coord spaces
     3/20/90     props, canopies
     3/27/90     lunch bet on club security
     3/27/90     initial doc of public club
     3/27/90     enforcement of clubs
     4/20/90     complete to do list from alpha 3
     4/27/90     respond to semantics email
     4/27/90     merge necromancers with dependencies
     4/27/90     merge necromancers with counted pointers

E.       marcs

x    3/13/90     greg lutz, return to autofact
x    3/13/90     racetrack in scheme
x    3/13/90     discuss hypertext trademark with cathy
     3/20/90     check patent issues for shipping the system overview
     3/27/90     tapestry mockup in open look
     4/24/90     rough draft of AMIX/Xanadu frontend comparison
     4/24/90     rough draft AMIX/Xanadu integration plan
     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

     3/20/90     fixed array
     3/20/90     u ent f1 fixed array
     3/27/90     put urdi under smalltalk
     4/27/90     figure out ent

G.       ravi

x    3/13/90     caddoc for autofact
x    3/13/90     partiality for autofact
     3/27/90     do comm in smalltalk
     3/27/90     tree orgls
     3/27/90     run fe to D & L across LAN on Sun

H.       bobp

     3/20/90     waldos layer documented
     3/27/90     sensors in the overview

I.       roger

     3/27/90     get fm running under open look

J.       roland

x    3/20/90     ceran
     3/30/90     write grammar for formic
     3/30/90     parser with expression semantics
     3/30/90     xlint check for assign to a parameter variable and assignment to "this"
     3/28/90     automatic documenter

K.       Bill

x    3/06/90     fix letter bomb memory leak
     3/13/90     nowait interaction with letter bombs
     3/13/90     integrate with X++
     3/13/90     figure out the backup setup

K.       Joel

     3/20/90     followup with pollock

L.       Jacque

     3/06/90     start maintaining the infofactory documentation
     3/06/90     prep to start writing user manual for infofactory

L.       Rick

x    2/27/90     prepare Montage presentation
     3/06/90     present Montage to Autodesk

L.       Deferred Meetings:

     Roger,, hugh, dean, ravi discuss system independent attributes
                       for the frontends  after fm does paragraphs.
     Dean, markm, region splay. 
     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