Minutes of the Woden Status Telecon, 2006-10-03

[Lawrence Mandel <lm...@ca.ibm.com>]

Attendees: Lawrence Mandel, John Kaputin, Arthur Ryman, Graham Turrell

Minutes

1. Open Action Items - Lawrence Mandel 

2006-09-12 - John to liaise with Chinthaka on when these will be 
available, how soon afterwards Woden M6 can be available and confirm that 
Axis2 will actually pick up this M6 release of Woden.
2006-09-26 
John: XmlSchema and Axiom have been released. M6 should be ready. I 
haven't received confirmation that Axis2 will bundle M6. 
2006-10-03
John: Chinthanka has confirmed that Woden M6 will be bundled in Axis2.
Closed.

2006-09-12 - Arthur to check on W3C WSDL2 WG time frame for PR phase and 
next interop event and feedback to Woden community.
2006-09-26 
Arthur: November 13 is the tentative date for the interop event. The 
likely site is at Canon in France. PR timing looks like June. 
John: Jonathan Marsh was going to check with Paul Downing to see if he's 
interested in participating in the interop event. One possibility is to do 
a couple days in the UK. Also, Sanjiva and Paul indicated they'd be 
interested in participating in a European interop event. 
2006-10-03
Arthur: Interop is Nov 14-18 at Canon. PR should be by first quarter 2007 
with the spec in recommendation phase by second quarter.
Closed.

2006-09-12 - John to complete review of Oshani's code in WODEN-44
2006-09-26 
John: I've completed half. More to do. 
2006-10-03
John: I'm continuing my review today. I should be complete by next week 
and have a recommendation.

2006-09-12 - ALL - review Jeremy's WODEN-40 branch.
2006-09-26 
John: I reviewed it after it was merged. Looks good to me. 
Arthur: Is there an easy way to compare the branch with the trunk? 
Jeremy: Yes. In Eclipse. Use compare. 
2006-10-03
Closed.

2006-09-12 - John, or others, review Graham's WODEN-14 patch
2006-09-26 
Jeremy: I had a look. I spoke with Graham about putting a test together so 
we can easily test this enhancement. 
Graham: No update on the test yet. 
2006-10-03
Graham: This patch has not been merged with head yet. Jeremy requested 
that it only be merged once there was a test case. There is one 
outstanding problem with the DOM parser. Once that is resolved I'll 
provide a new patch.

2006-09-26 - Jeremy will investigate a method for testing the W3C test 
suite based on what he did with XmlSchema. 

2006-09-26 - John will investigate the 2 Jiras Arthur's raised for the 
JUnit failures. 
2006-10-03
John: Jeremy had a look.
Arthur: They were dups. The problem was the message labels are optional in 
XML and required in the component model so you have to apply defaulting 
rules by looking at the MEP.
John: MEPs have not yet been modelled in Woden. There's some work to do in 
this area.
Arthur: MEPs should be extensible.
Closed.

2. Milestone (M6/M7) Status - John Kaputin

John: I made a few updates for M6 as per the incubator PMC requests. I'm 
waiting for another PMC vote. I'll post again if I haven't seen more votes 
as of tonight to see if we can release with the existing votes.

John: I haven't made any changes to the M7 plan. We should be able to set 
a publication date now that the interop date has been set. I suggest we 
plan to do a release by Nov 10. Code freeze on Nov. 6.
Lawrence: I think those dates should work.
John: We should see about splitting up the distribution for M7. I'm not 
sure if there's a Jira open.
[Action] John will check to see if there is a Jira open for modularizing 
the build and open one if it doesn't exist.
Lawrence: What's the status of signing the release?
John: There's a page that describes the process.
[Action] John will post to the dev list with information about signing 
releases.

3.Development Discussion - All

Arthur: Can you provide an overview of the URI resolver patch? How do I 
contribute a resolver?
Graham: There is a framework for the user to provide their own resolver. A 
simple resolver that uses a properties file is included to show the use. 
To add your own resolver you can add an entry to the WSDL properties file, 
a system property
Arthur: So the key is the URL?
Graham: Yes. Not the namespace.
Arthur: Are these chained.
Graham: No.
Lawrence: Graham and I discussed chaining and following the example of 
other parsers I suggested we only allow a single resolver to be registered 
with Woden. Clients should handle chaining.
Arthur: I think this patch should be committed and reviewed in HEAD. I'd 
like it to be primed with the W3C schemas. The W3C schemas should be 
redistributed by Woden.
[Action] Graham will investigate any Apache process that needs to be 
followed to bundle the W3C WSDL 2.0 schemas with Woden.
Arthur: See 
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/ws/desc/test-suite/xmlcatalog/wsdl/
Arthur: Is it possible to add a logger that can log requests that cannot 
be resolved. This should allow us to ensure we've bundled all the schemas 
that we need. I'll add a comment to Woden-14.

Arthur: As we go into the interop we may want to contribute assertion 
checks along with test cases. Is the Woden validator extensible?
Lawrence: Not currently. It's currently structured as a method per 
assertion to make it easy to understand but there is no way to dynamically 
extend the validator.
Arthur: It may be useful to dynamically load extension classes so it is 
easy for people to extend the validator.
Lawrence: We don't want to make every assertion walk the model tree. This 
leads to serious performance problems as demonstrated by the WS-I test 
tools.
Arthur: We can create an interface per component and in that way walk the 
tree once and visit validators along the way.
Lawrence: Let's continue this conversation on the dev list or in a Jira.

4. Other Business - Open 

No other business was raised.


Thanks, 

Lawrence Mandel 

Re: Minutes of the Woden Status Telecon, 2006-10-03

[Eran Chinthaka <ch...@opensource.lk>]

Lawrence Mandel wrote:

> *[Action] John will check to see if there is a Jira open for
> modularizing the build and open one if it doesn't exist.*
> Lawrence: What's the status of signing the release?
> John: There's a page that describes the process.
> *[Action] John will post to the dev list with information about signing
> releases.*
> 

You might wanna look at how we signed the releases and the release
process by looking at this :
http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis2/releases/steps.


-- Chinthaka