ICU Core Meeting Notes

Oct. 25, 2006

Attending:

Mark Davis
Doug Felt
Deborah Goldsmith
Andy Heninger
Eric Mader
Michael Ow
Markus Scherer
Ram Viswanadha
Yoshito Umaoka

Action Items

Number	Due	Who	Description
26	11/08/06	Yoshito	Check with Eclipse team and evaluate if the wrapper code needs to be updated
31	11/01/06	Mark, Vladimir	Look at UnicodeSet and CollectionUtilities, make a proposal
32	11/01/06	Steven	Restore full functionality to Transliteration Demo.
33	11/15/06	Michael	Set up Java on FreeBSD machine
34	11/30/06	Steven	SVN updates and staging server setup
35	11/01/06	George	Send raw data to Doug and announce on the public mailing list after adding disclaimers and caveats to the summary page.
36	11/01/06	Doug, Eric, Ram, Mark, Yoshito	Comment on Eric's email about @internal APIs in ICU4J
37	11/01/06	Steven	Submit a bug in CLDR for modifying SurveyTool with respect to Relative Date Time Format data
6	12/1/06	Markus	futz around with different options for cnv binary file and report back to the group with recommendation.

ICU Suvey Results

George gave an overview of summary of suvey results. Long discussion followed.
Mark suggested adding caveats to public summary page about small sample size
Steven suggested that a survey window could pop up everytime a user tries to download ICU. Can be done for 3.8
Markus proposed a suvey design committee to design the survey offline.

Collation Probe Tool

Andy enquired about the appropriate loacation to place the collation probe tool.
Decision: tools top level module in ICU repository is the right location

ICU4J APIs Marked @internal

Doug and Eric requested a closure on the list of APIs that are marked @internal. See 36 above.
Eric requested that @internal APIs in ICU4C should also be reviewed. This list can be obtained here.

Relative Date Time Formats

Deborah indicated that Relative Date Time formats is an important feature for Apple and should be planned for 3.8.
Data for implementing this feature is already available in English locale in CLDR.
Mark opined that more research is needed to flesh out data in English locale. Vetters do not provide correct data for their languages unless a corresponding item is available in English.
Decision: Schedule JB 2895 for 3.8