wiki:Meetings/Meet-2009-09-04

Protocol of KIELER Meeting on 04.09.09

Demo Part

KIELER RCP

  • Hauke showed the current state of the hudson auto-build system  http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/hudson/.
  • We will have a new KIELER RCP release every night!
  • Latest additions to the auto-build system:
    • Viewmanagment
    • Execution manager
    • Structure based editing
  • In addition to the RCP release, there is an update site which allows users to install the latest version of KIELER features.

KSBasE

  • Michael showed the current, very unstable, version of the KSBasE feature.
  • Brand new preference page to install and configure structure based features for a diagram editor.
  • Still a lot to do, specially for storing features for diagram users.

Synccharts model changes

  • After a previews meeting there were some minor changes that have been made to the synccharts metamodel and the ThinKCharts editor:
    • States can be anonymous
    • The region borders are dynamic
    • The synccharts model validation has been improved, but does not work with the KIELER RCP due to a missing check file.

Weekly/Monthly? reviews

  • haf : RCP eclipse integration (Welcome screen etc.). Label parser still won't work due to a Xtext bug. So haf is waiting for the new Xtext release.
  • skn : Installed eclipse, tried to get in touch with eclipse plug-in mechanisms, created a view for displaying SVG images.
  • cmot : Integrated the execution manager in the hudson project. Added comments to his code, created a JME mobile application for the execution manager.
  • schm: Completed his study thesis and started some research for his diploma thesis.
  • oba : Started writing her diploma thesis (actually harder than expected). Did some bug hunting in the synchronized editor, but there is an Xtext bug regarding the diagram to text transformation, so oba waits for the next Xtext build, too (or maybe tries to build the Xtext nightly release). The text to model direction works pretty well, so maybe we will see it next week.
  • csch : Hudson tuning and other stuff
  • mim : Integrated the structure based editing features in the hudson project. Tried to add keyboard shortcut functionality. Bughunting

Textual editor

During the weekly review session some questions about the textual editor and the KIELER file extensions arose.

  • Which file extension shall be used for the text editor ?
  • Ideas:
    • .rtsys ( ReTyping SYncchartS)
    • Something in analogy to the diagram, i.e. synccharts_text ?
    • schm: .kits. Where KIT relates to the old KIEL textual language.
  • Maybe there should be a general discussion about file extensions in the KIELER framework. To use the KIELER trademark the extensions could all start with k. But we will wait for Miro and Claus to join the discussion.