Meeting minutes 11/8/1999.

Topic:     ICU Development Team Meeting
Date:      11/8/1999
Time:        10:00AM - 11:00AM
Place:     IBM Corp.

Host:        Helena Shih(hshih@us.ibm.com)
            IBM Corp.

Attendees:
  Alan Liu (IBM)                           alan@finwhale.com
  Gary Roberts (NCR)                       gary.roberts@ncr.com
  Markus Scherer (IBM)                     schererm@us.ibm.com
  Helena Shih (IBM)                        hshih@us.ibm.com
  Tex Texin (Progress)                     texin@progress.com
  Bob Verbrugge (Compuware)                bobv@nl.compuware.com
  Vladimir 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#

     - Action item review from the previous meetings
     - ICU name change voting (details below)
     - Project management committee
     - ICU Charter final review
     - Contribution process final review
     - Feature request prioritization
     - Future meeting schedule
     - Action items from this meeting

Recap of the action items from previous Meetings:

Action item status:
[r] : removed
[-] : completed
[ ] : open

1. Uncompleted action item from the previous meetings:

[r] T08301999-01 [Karen] :           Basis will send the name list to IBM -
Removed
[ ] T08301999-02 [Tom and Alan] :    Contact each other regarding
transliteration framework issues.
[-] T10121999-01 [Markus] :          Finish updating the ICU coding
standards and contribution process document to clearly specify the boot
strapping mechanism and C/C++ interface design goals.
[-] T10121999-02 [Bob] :             Investigate the native C interface
dependency on C++.
[-] T10121999-03 [All] :             Everyone needs to send Helena the name
change candidate before 11/03/1999.
[-] T10251999-01 [Laura] :           Send out the final draft of the
charter by the end of day on 10/29.
[-] T10251999-02 [All] :             Review the charter, contribution
process and send comments or suggestions to Laura and Helena respectively
by the end of 11/03/1999
[-] T10251999-03 [Helena]:           File the requirements from the feature
list into the jitterbug database.
[-] T10251999-04 [Bob] :             Email the C/C++ interface dependency
findings to us before the next meeting.
[-] T10251999-05 [Helena] :          Enable the jitterbug notification
process thru email
[ ] T10251999-06 [All] :             All the ICU development team members
should subscribe to the ICU mailing lists.
[ ] T10251999-07 [All] :             Send prioritization comments to
Helena.

2. ICU Name change voting:

The additional name candidates from this meeting included:
    Open-Source Enablement for Unicode (OEU)
    Open-Source Library for Unicode (OLU)
    Shasta
    Atlas
    Global Unicode Module for Better Operation (GUMBO)
    Global Unicode Software That is Open-Source (GUSTO)
    Enablement Library of Unicode (ELU)

We decided to pick two generic names and two unique names in that order
    Unicorn
    Atlas
    International Library for Unicode (ILU)
    Open-Source Library for Unicode (OLU)

Laura and Helena will check with the IBM marketing team to verify the name.

3. Project Management Committee

Laura proposed to set up a PMC in this meeting.  The current PMC members
are,

    Mark Davis
    Hideki Hiura
    Helena Shih
    Tex Texin
    Bob Verbrugge
    Laura Werner

4. ICU Charter final review

After the reorganization of the ICU web site content, this work item no
longer applies.

5. Contribution process final review

Everyone agrees to keep this as open and simple as possible for now.  No
change comments to the web site have been submitted.  However, regarding
API change policy, maybe the following process should be enforced,

* Strict API addition: at least 2 week of review period on icu mailing
list.
* Breaking API changes: at least 1 week of review period on icu mailing
list.
* Keep a list mature APIs (that have been reviewed and marked as stable)
available on the web.
* Any API related changes require core team approval.

Review this in the next meeting.

6. Requirement list prioritization

Mark propose to postpone this discussion till next meeting.  Everyone
concurs.

#Action Items from This Meeting#

[ ] T11081999-01 [Helena]         Post the meeting minutes on the www10 web
site before the next meeting.
[ ] T11081999-02 [Laura]          Finalize the name issue with IBM
marketing.
[ ] T11081999-03 [Laura]          Clean up the mailing list subscription
instructions.
[ ] T11081999-04 [PMC members]    Find an alternate for each member of the
PMC.
[-] T11081999-05 [Helena]         Clean up the action item recording
mechanism.
[ ] T11081999-06 [All]            Examine the API change process and submit
change suggestions to Helena by the end of day 11/18.


#Next Meeting Schedule#

The next ICU meeting will be held on 11/22/1999 from 10AM-11AM PST, 1PM-2PM
EST.  The call-in number and pass code will be provided at least 24 hour
prior to the meeting.