[kepler-dev] alpha9 conf call summary

[Matt Jones]

Thanks for everyone's time today.  We discussed issues for the alpha9 
release for 90 minutes.  Here's my notes on the major conclusions from 
the call, which I thought you might find useful.

Matt

1) Delay alpha9 release until March 6 to allow 3 new features to get in
     a) "Import actor from KAR" menu item (Chad)
     b) Enable new menu framework for rt click menus (Matthew)
     c) Modify SRB actor to use Authentication framwork (Nandita/Efrat)

2) Menus and layout as implemented by Matthew will be cleaned up and 
included in the release, but the new dialogs for actors and directors 
will be postponed.  Delay in icon rendering is a critical bug to 
address.  Laura will do a review of the current QueryBuilder GUI for 
items that can be easily cleaned up. Matthew will retarget GUI bugs as 
needed to make the alpha9/beta1 lists accurate

3) Nil value support as implemented by cxh seems reasonable and seems to 
work for R and EML actors.  Will continue to test and utilize it.  Dan 
will add a new bug for survaeying other actors that need to properly 
process nil tokens

4) Remote actor repository will only include upload, not download or 
searching.  Users will use the Import KAR menu to load a kar file that 
they have downloaded from the repository.

5) Nandita will coordinate the finalization of the documentation 
framework, including Zhije's needs for some new fields, and will post a 
proposed approach to how to document all actors.  Then all developers 
will be responsible for a first pass at documentation for their actors 
by beta1.  Nandita will corrdinate a documentation conference call for 
very soon.

6) Tim will propose an approach for tracking the corespondence between 
workflow tests listed in lib/test-workflows.lst and the actors that are 
tested in there, and he will coordinate a review of the coverage of 
those workflows for those actors.  Most "tests" currently listed there 
will be removed and replaced as they only demonstrate that the wf runs, 
not that it generates correct output.

7) Chad will coordinate a beta1 conference call for around the 20th of March


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