TLC Meeting October 31, 2007

The TLC met by teleconference on October 31, 2007 at 1:30 PM EDT.

Agenda

1. SPAM on the wiki pages

2. Restructuring project layouts to get rid of cross dependencies between projects (and to decrease download size)

3. NetBSD support

4. CoinAll release

5. Knowledge base of supported platforms

6. CoinTest

Notes

1. Recently, there has been a rash of invisible link SPAM on the Wikis of various projects. This SPAM was not created by Bots, but by users with accounts on COIN-OR. These accounts have now been deleted, and Laci is going to write a script that will look for SPAM on Wiki check-ins. We'll keep on eye on this problem and see if something more needs to be done.

2. There is currently at least one circular dependency that needs to be resolved, since it break the prepare_new_release script. Osi depends on DyLP and DyLP depends on Osi. It was agreed that it should be a general policy not to allow these kinds of dependencies to persist, but that we would simply put the problem to the respective PMs to work it out.

3. There was a discussion of a recently reported incompatibility with NetBSD. It turned out not to be a systemic problem with the build tools, but to be isolated to CoinUtils, which still has its own platform-specific #defines in some header file and does not use the mechanisms provided by the autotools. Laci will look into this.

4. Just about all projects have finally done their BSP-related release, so a CoinAll release will be a reality soon.

5. There was a brief discussion of how/whether to create a knowledge base of platforms on which COIN has been successfully built.

6. There was a discussion of the status of the proposed CoinTest project, which has so far languished. Kipp, JP, and Stefan have been doing some of their own work with nightly builds and have agreed to coordinate with Bill Hart to finally get CoinTest off the ground.