Meeting minutes 10/25/1999. 

Topic:	 ICU Development Team Meeting
Date: 	 10/25/1999
Time:        09:00AM - 10:00AM
Place: 	 IBM Corp.
	
Host:        Helena Shih(hshih@us.ibm.com)
	       IBM Corp.

Attendees:
  David Craig (NCR)
  Hideki Hirua (Sun)                       hiura@eng.sun.com
  Alan Liu (IBM)                           alan@finwhale.com
  Markus Scherer (IBM)                     schererm@us.ibm.com
  Helena Shih (IBM)                        hshih@us.ibm.com
  Bob Verbrugge (Compuware)                bobv@nl.compuware.com
  Karen Watts (Basis)	                   karen@basistech.com
  Vladimire Weinstein (IBM)                vweinste@us.ibm.com
  Laura Werner (IBM)                       lwerner@us.ibm.com

Minutes Takers:
  Helena Shih

- Agenda for today's meeting
- Action items from today's meeting
- Next meeting schedule

#Agenda for today's meeting#

1. Uncompleted action item from the previous meetings:
    - Basis will send the name list to IBM - still in progress (Karen is working on that.)
    - Tom (Basis) and Alan (IBM) will contact each other regarding transliteration framework issues. - in progress
    - Markus will finish updating the ICU coding standards and contribution process document to clearly specify the boot strapping mechanism and C/C++ interface design goals. -- in progress

    - Bob will investigate the native C interface dependency on C++.  -- in progress
        Currently, the C++ dependencies still exist in ICU's C interface.  For example, Locale::getDataDirectory(), ResourceBundle.  Bob suggested that ICU C interface be separated into its own library and the true C tests be compiled and linked with C compiler.

2. Requirement list review
The following additional requirements are suggested to be added to the list:

    - Add the sort key compressing mechanism. (Steve W.)
    - Review converter alias references.  (Tex T.)
    - Abstract mail message interface.  (Hideki H.)
    - w3C character model.  (Markus S.)
    - DLL-fying binary data segments on Win32.  (Bob V. proposed, Steven L. owns)

Helena proposed to review the priorities of the requirement list in the next meeting.  Tex also suggested that the prioritization can be done by categories.  For example, basic level support vs. high level support.  Bob mentioned that the OS dependency abstraction interface is very important to Compuware and has volunteer to share with us his design document regarding this.  The above requirements are owned by the originator unless specified.

#Action Items from Today's Meeting#

    - Everyone needs to send Helena the name change candidate before 11/03/1999 --- this item will be finalized on 11/8

    - Laura will send out the final draft of the charter by the end of day on 10/29.  
    - Everyone needs to review the charter, contribution process and send comments or suggestions to Laura and Helena respectively by the end of 11/03/1999. --- this item will be finalized on 11/8

    - Helena will file the requirements from the feature list into the jitterbug database. -- in progress

    - Bob will email the C/C++ interface dependency findings to us before the next meeting.  

    - Helena will enable the jitterbug notification process thru email.  

    - All the ICU development team members should subscribe to the ICU mailing list.  Please see  http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/resources.html for more details.  The icu-core mailing list is for this group only and needs to be approved to sign up for it. 

#Next Meeting Schedule#

The next ICU meeting will be held on 11/08/1999 from 9AM-10AM PST, 12PM-1PM EST.  The call-in number and pass code will be provided at least 24 hour prior to the meeting.