Weekly Planning Meeting, 5/15

[Marc Stiegler <marcs>]

Highlights 5/15:

The big congratulations this week goes to ravi and hill and roger 
and dean. Ravi completed props and filters, the first major step 
toward completing permissions we have taken in a long time. Hill, 
meanwhile, was able to integrate a version of the system that 
has all the wonderful properties of the version ravi created 
last week, plus fm linked in as well (which required getting 
fm compiling, which was done by roger and dean).

Congratulations also go to bill and jacque. Bill got Sun OS 4.1 
running, so we can find out how much trouble we'll have with 
the upgrade. Meanwhile jacque has figured out how to update our 
Tapestry documentation well enough to have brought all the pictures 
up to date with respect to icons and scroll bars. (though the 
design has already changed enough to require new scroll bars 
in the flat view, so they'll need to be redone soon :-)

Meetings: Rick, ravi, bobp, using a Xanadu Server, 10AM Thursday. 
Michael, dean, ravi, disk transceiver the day immediately after 
Tuesday. Roger, hugh, reproducible Tapestry tests. Hugh, michael, 
finding changes in smalltalk. 

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

A.       dean

     5/22/90     build snarf transceiver
     5/22/90     backend-disk interface (BeDi)
     6/22/90     design archiving
     6/23/90     inclusion list coord space
     6/23/90     allocation sequence numbers
     6/23/90     printing sequence numbers

B.       hill

x    5/15/90     made canonical system do C++
x    5/15/90     linked fm library into canonical system
x    5/15/90     new stubble shell script
     5/30/89     write mail about X++ upgrades and garbage collection for bobp

C.       hugh

x    5/15/90     hit the mac developer's conference
x    5/15/90     stubble server for the mac
     5/22/90     compile febe on mac
     5/22/90     compile fm on mac
     5/22/90     X++ running on Mac
     6/14/90     finish attribute design
     6/14/90     get variants working in link pane

D.       markm

x    5/15/90     fix fluids
     5/22/90     canopies & composite spaces
     6/07/90     initial doc of public club
     6/07/90     enforcement of clubs
     6/24/90     complete to do list from alpha 3
     6/27/90     respond to semantics email

E.       marcs

x    5/15/90     coordinate with barry dickman
x    5/15/90     coordinate with maurie laitinen
     5/22/90     talk with randy smith, chris hibbert, ian hopper
     5/22/90     new, super detailed PERT
     6/17/90     tapestry mockup in open look
     6/24/90     start second round of patenting work
     6/30/89     figure out whether links are standalone objects

F.       michael

x    5/15/90     studdy ent-snarf connection
     5/22/90     re-assess tasks
     5/22/90     Michael, wjr, pull file off exobyte. 

G.       ravi

x    5/15/90     props, filters
x    5/15/90     composite spaces compiling
     5/22/90     composite spaces working
     5/22/90     spin up rick on fe interface

H.       bobp

x    5/15/90     hit the mac developers conference
     5/22/90     more with marcs, joel on documentation staffing
     5/22/90     proposal to kathleen marvin
     5/22/90     ship bound sys overview
     6/17/90     sensors in the overview

I.       roger

     5/22/90     get fm running under open look
     5/22/90     xanatext in xwindows

J.       roland

x    5/15/90     stubble doing everything ravi needs for compile
     5/22/90     install better parser
     5/22/90     fix line numbering in crtuch
     5/29/90     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

x    5/15/90     get exobyte repaired
     5/22/90     installed 4.1
     5/22/90     Michael, wjr, pull file off exobyte.
     5/22/90     figure out gatormail 

L.       Joel

x    5/15/90     distribute info packet to world
x    5/15/90     molecular negotiations

M.       Jacque

x    5/15/90     update tapestry in superpaint: consistent icons, clean scroll bars
     5/22/90     contacted owners of the mac/pc teaching article
     5/22/90     outline of tapestry documentation
     5/29/90     new flat view scroll bars

N.       Rick

x    5/15/90     sceran designed
x    5/15/90     installed Sun C++
     5/22/90     formic automated generator of interface
     5/22/90     round 2 with key logic
     5/22/90     get initx.hxx
     5/22/90     xutext

O.       Paul

x    5/08/90     new hire administrivia

L.       Small Tasks List
    Cleanup region code
    Sequence # in smalltalk, dean & michael versions
    Test files

L.       Deferred Meetings:

     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
     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