Mach II Team Meeting August 20, 2009 - Mach-II/Mach-II-Framework GitHub Wiki

Attendees: Peter Ferrell, Matt Woodward, Kurt Wiersma, Brian FitzGerald

Time: Listed in Eastern time zone

  • 10:04p

  • Kurt mentions the fact that cfunited venue was fantastic venue, lower turnout (600 people) then they would have liked

  • Kurt mentions that his head first talk had a slim turnout, 10-15 people

  • Matt wonders if the headfirst preso has run it's course at cfunited

  • Matt mentions that the flex and air turnout may have been a large part of the attendee focus

  • Kurt guesstimates that 80% of the attendees were there for the cf specific content

  • 10:10

  • Kurt mentions that despite the smallish turnout, overall the headfirst presentation was rather well received

  • in other conference news, Kurt reminds that Model Glue released their 3.0 final for the conference

  • discussion about ORM library sharing between model glue and mach ii.

  • Matt mentions the fact that ORM functionality is built in to CF9, and that it is coming soon to the alternative engines, and with that said, may or may not be wise to focus on connectivity to existing ORM tools

  • 10:14

    • Peter brings up the skeleton generator ... possibly to work it into the dashboard, or as a standalone app
    • General discussion of 4cff.org
    • Kurt brings up the BFusion/BFlex conference and the possibility of delivering an advanced Mach-II session in the BFusion/BFlex advanced track
    • Matt mentions that he may do a session on developing in CFML using open source tools
    • Peter suggests pinging Bob Flynn to solidify a few ideas on the sessions to make sure the content is the right fit for the attendees

  • 10:39

    • Matt mentions cfObjective() pre-conference training
    • Team discusses pre/post conference training as a possibility for cfObjective() 09
    • Peter mentions the possibility of having an introductory training session on the day before the conference, and having the advanced session the day after the conference

  • 10:55

    • Kurt has some kind words for Joe Rinehart's keynote at cfunited
    • Kurt mentions that the 1.8 beta is the next item up for discussion
    • At Peter's request, Matt says he will update the test harness for 1.8 compatibility with the remaining form tags (radiogroup, checkboxgroup) and finish the data binding in them.
    • Matt mentions that once we run through the beta testing, we should ask for some feedback from the community when we push out RC1 to ensure we have a substantial user group banging away on the updated code and new features

  • 11:05

    • Kurt talks about a new more organized milestone approach for 1.9 and moving forward
    • Peter suggests we decide on a codename for 1.9, and Kurt looks up planned features for the release
    • Kurt talks about validation, packages, and AJAX/REST support as key features for 1.9
    • Matt mentions potentially being able to dig in a bit more on some coding for the 1.9 release, but points out that we'll need to make sure everything is very clearly laid out and organized up front to make the development process as straightforward as possible

  • 11:17

    • Peter and Matt talk about i18n internationalization features and how much they still take advantage of resource bundles, and discuss how much the architecture has or has not been updated so they can be leveraged by message bundles for the validation framework.
    • Peter mentions that for 1.9 (and in general), we should have a lead for each key feature per release
    • Peter asks Kurt to be the "feature czar" for upcoming key feature for 2.0
    • Peter offers to be take the feature lead on the upcoming validation system in 1.9

  • 11:21

    • Matt talks about simplifying AJAX development in Mach-II applications and packages as key features for 2.0, and says we need to talk more about AJAX and how that will fit in
    • Peter, Matt, Kurt bouncing ideas around about how AJAX features will be tied into Mach-II, and what will make sense

  • 11:45

    • Peter brings up documentation/promotional efforts up for discussion
    • Brian talks about idea of creating a series of introductory and potentially more advanced screencasts to help existing and potential Mach-II users get started easily using the framework and its specific features
    • Team agrees that targeted and concise screencasts would add value to our growing set of documentation and framework resources
    • Peter brings up idea about creating a screencast for "About" section on the website a way to market the framework to people researching frameworks.
    • Meeting wrap up, team in agreement that it has been productive and that we are moving in the right direction wrapping up 1.8 and transitioning into 1.9