ICU development team meeting USA Toll Free Number: 888-790-7707 Date: July 11th, 2000, Tuesday Time: 9am PDT - 10am PDT Place: IBM Java Technology Center 10275 North DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014, USA. Host: IBM ======================================= Attendees: Jim Snyder-Grant (Lotus) Carl Brown (X.Net, Inc) Yves Arrouye (RealNames) David Craig (NCR) Steve Watt (Progress) Tex Texin (Progress) Markus Scherer (IBM) Steven Loomis (IBM) Vladimir Weinstein (IBM) Helena Shih (IBM) Laura Werner (IBM) Ram Viswanadha (IBM) Minutes Taker: Helena Shih #Agenda: - Additional agenda items - Action items from previous meetings - ICU User's Guide status update. - ICU Developers Workshop Agenda Tex suggested that we form another group to discuss the ICU workshop issues and take that off the PMC meeting time. He also would like to see a survey drawn up to collect additional agenda information from possible attendees. Helena will send out a draft survey before the next meeting and solicit interested party to continue the discussion off-line. Other open issues the group needs to discuss includes, 1. After class lab access hour. 2. Build and installation tryout on a new platform. 3. Access to remote sites. - Legal issues. David and Laura briefed the team on the legal issues raised by NCR lawyers. Tex and Steve will check with the progress lawyers on the wording of "module" to clarify the license agreement. - Technical discussion attendees by invitation - Technical discussion - Collation enhancement (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/archives/icu/icu.0006/msg00173.html) The 1.6 release will include the implementation as proposed. Further collation enhancements such as performance improvement or other versioning scheme will be included in the post 1.6 releases. - Context object and others proposal Carl will check to see if CICS can live with global context settings and send a message out about it. -- Future meeting schedule The next ICU meeting will be held on 7/25, Tuesday 9AM PDT. Call-in information will be provided the day before if not earlier. Action Item Review: Action item status: [r] : removed [-] : completed [ ] : open --- Items from this meeting --- [-] T20000711-01 [Helena] Send out a workshop survey draft and solicit workshop agenda volunteers. Due date: 2000-July-25 if not earlier. [ ] T20000711-02 [Tex] Check with Progress lawyers regarding the wording of "module". Due date: 2000-July-25 if not earlier. [-] T20000711-02 [Carl] Check the CICS usage of global context settings with ICU. Due date: 2000-July-25 if not earlier. [ ] T20000627-04 [Steve W.] File a jitterbug for C API request ucol_hashKey(). Due date: 2000-June-28 if not earlier. [ ] T20000627-05 [All] Prepare the workshop agenda items before next meetings. Due date: 2000-July-11 if not earlier. [-] T20000627-01 [Helena] Send out a collation enhancement proposal. Due date: 2000-June-27. [-] T20000627-02 [Laura] Make the current version of ICU user's guide available on oss. Due date: 2000-June-27. Link to : http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/ [-] T20000627-03 [Laura] Send out an update as per legal discussion with IBM lawyers. Due date: 2000-July-11 if not earlier. [-] T20000613-02 [Helena and Brendan] Provide a proposal for Collation enchancement requirements. Due date: 2000-June-20. [-] T20000523-04 [Markus] Send out a revised conversion alias matching proposal. Due date: 2000-June-15 if not earlier. [-] T20000523-05 [All] Complete API set in 1.6 release will be frozen. Due date: 2000-June-29 if not earlier. [ ] T20000523-06 [Roger] Complete ICU User's Guide draft for public review. Due date: 2000-June-23 if not earlier. [ ] T20000229-03 [IBM & Yves] 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) Due date: 2000-apr-30 2000-apr-11: include a list of files that need to be installed [ ] T20000613-01 [Vladimir] Publish the new ResourceBundle benchmark results. Due date: 2000-August if not earlier. [ ] T20000321-01 [David] Submit ICU port changes for NCR MP-RAS platform. Due date: 2000-may-09 2000-apr-25: pending on Steve Watt's feedback on various compiler options. 2000-may-09: Tex/Steve: changes for a very similar platform are checked in and should cover much of this platform 2000-may-23: Pending the legal issue resolutions [ ] T20000321-04 [Roger] Complete the Conversion chapter of the ICU user's guide. Due date: 2000-may-09 2000-may-09: The chapter iss not ready yet. [ ] 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. Due date: 2000-may-09 2000-may-09: The chapter is not ready yet. [ ] T20000411-02 [Steve W.] Collect the makefile flags for different platforms Due date: 2000-may-09 2000-may-09: Done for UnixWare. [ ] T20000229-05 [David] Review the Format User's guide chapters Due date: 2000-may-09 [ ] T20000229-06 [Tex & Steve] Review the Collation and ResourceBundle User's guide chapters Due date: 2000-may-09 2000-apr-11: there are still broken links in the user's guide on the web 2000-may-09: The links are fixed. [ ] T20000321-05 [Brendan] Review the Conversion and Transliterator chapters of ICU user's guide. Due date: 2000-may-15 2000-apr-25: Feedback was submitted through email, 2nd review cycle is required after the update. 2000-may-09: in 2nd review cycle now [ ] T20000229-04 [David] David Craig will continue to work on the DateFormat performance and report in the next meeting. Due date: 2000-may-15 --- Items that are due after the next meeting --- [ ] T20000411-03 [Markus/Steven/Yves] Document how to drop/add/delete resources (data files) like converters, locales, and collation tables Due date: 2000-june-9 [ ] T20000125-01 [Jesper] Implement the global new/delete operator to use uprv_malloc and uprv_free functions. Due date: August 31, 2000 [ ] T20000411-01 [IBM] Investigate stylebook output in UTF-8 Due date: August 31, 2000 [ ] T20000321-03 [IBM] Find information on the freeware that can print the html pages in a directory. Due date: September 1, 2000 2000-apr-11: we need to investigate how to produce one single HTML file or a PDF document