ICU development team meeting
Call-In: 1-888-790-7707, 1-415-228-4845, Passcode 49388
Date:   March 21, 2000, Tuesday
Time:   9am PST - 10am PST
Place:  IBM Java Technology Center
        10275 North DeAnza Blvd.
        Cupertino, CA 95014, USA.
Host:   IBM

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Attendees:
  David and Albert (NCR)
  Alan, Helena, Mark, Markus, Roger and Vladimir (IBM)
  Brendan, Kouichi and Jim (Lotus)
  Tex and Steve (Progress)
  Bob (Compuware)
  Yves (RealNames)

Minutes Taker:
  Helena Shih

Agenda:

- Addition Agenda Items:
    - PMC update
    - XML Character data

- Action items from previous meetings
    Action item status:
          [r] : removed
          [-] : completed
          [ ] : open

    [ ] T20000125-01 [Bob]     Implement the global new/delete operator
to
                               use uprv_malloc and uprv_free functions.
    [ ] T20000208-03 [Brendan] Send out the requirements with regards
                              to Collation versioning to icu mailing
list and
                              IBM will revise the current versioning
proposal
                              to satisfy the combined requirement.
        -> Steven Watt sent requirements, awaiting Brendan & discussion.

    [-] T20000208-04 [David]  Send out the performance test results when
it's available.
    [-] T20000229-01 [Markus] Send proposals to the icu list for
                              + basic UTF-16 support with C++
                              + Converter callback API changes
                              + 3/4-MBCS conversion
                              + Mirrored properties APIs
    [-] T20000229-02 [IBM]    Provide initial draft of User's Guide
(icu-core)
    [ ] T20000229-03 [IBM]    Improve readme and related documents
                              + Cross-link javadoc texts, C <-> C++ etc.

                              + update readme & docs/*
                              + move coding guidelines to separate doc
(only
                                link to oss server page? remove
irrelevant items)
    [ ] T20000229-04 [David]  David Craig will continue to work on the
DateFormat
                              performance and report in the next
meeting.
    [ ] T20000229-05 [David]  Review the Format User's guide chapters
    [ ] T20000229-06 [Tex & Steve] Review the Collation and
ResourceBundle User's guide chapters

- ICU 1.4.1 Release is now available!! This release contains updated
copyright notices important for product integration.

- Proposal Voting and Discussion:
    * XML Mapping tables: The tables were generated by calling Microsoft
Windows API on a NT 4.0 machine. The tool will be extended to run on
other Windows environment in the future.  The tables are converted to
XML format with character charts in HTML format.  This data repository
will be posted on the ICU OSS server shortly.
    * Conversion fallback handling: We all agreed that the two API
additions are necessary.  The APIs will be changed to setUsingFallback()
and isUsingFallback().  Updating the javadoc to describe the usage of
the ucnv_open() API is required.
    * Converter names: Yves will send out an updated proposal to the
'icu' mailing list about this.
- Additional agenda items:
    * PMC member list update:  Helena proposed to purge the committee to
include the more active participants.  David Craig mentioned that he is
not ready to commit to the responsibilities yet.    Current PMC member
and their alternates are:
    Mark Davis
    Helena Shih [alternate: Markus Scherer]
    Tex Texin [alternate: Steve Watt]
    Bob Verbrugge [alternate: Jesper Larsen
(Jesper_Larsen@nl.compuware.com)]
    Laura Werner
    Brendan Murray [alternate: Kouichi Izumi]
    Yves Arrouye

- Action items from this meeting
    [ ] T20000321-01 [David]        Submit ICU port changes for NCR
NP-RAS platform.
    [ ] T20000321-02 [Brendan]    Report back the Solaris-64bit port
changes.  Currently failing in cintltst when loading the word break
iterator data file.
    [ ] T20000321-03 [IBM]         Find information on the freeware that
can print the html pages in a directory.
    [ ] T20000321-04 [Roger]       Complete the Conversion chapter of
the ICU user's guide.
    [ ] T20000321-05 [Brendan]    Review the Conversion and
Transliterator chapters of ICU user's guide.
    [ ] T20000321-06 [Yves]         Review the Conversion chapter of ICU
user's guide.  Create draft of the build/installation instructions of
the Introduction chapter of the user's guide.
    [-] T20000321-07 [Helena]       Post details regarding the ICU 1.4.1
release on icu and icu-annouce mailing list.
    [ ] T20000321-08 [Helena]       Post character set XML tables on OSS
server.

- Future meeting schedule

      The next ICU meeting will be held
      on 2000-April 11 from 9AM-10AM PST, 12PM-1PM EST.
      The call-in number and pass code will be provided at least
      24 hours prior to the meeting.