wiki:Meetings/Meet-2010-04-26

KIELER Meeting 2010-04-26

  • moderator: haf
  • protocol: cmot

Agenda

  1. Release
  2. Experimental Feature
  3. Akronym VisuData/Viewmanagement?
  4. Problems w/ Xtext
  5. Meta models

Release

  • Release 0.2
    • Branching today, increasing release numbers
    • Features: KRep, SyncC2Esterel, OGDFLayout, EcoreToolsDiagEditor?, KIEMAutomation, Linebreaks in Labels
    • Problem w/ linebreak feature: Information lost when serializing with Xtext (backtracking not working)
      • Serialization as an optional feature, preference pages (Ticket #818 soh)
    • Automatic build scheduled for this week
    • Individual testing required afterwards
    • Release scheduled for next week
  • Release 0.3 in june

Experimental Feature

  • Message dialog warns user
  • Dialog only once (per workspace ;-)
  • Must run in UI thread using Display.getDefault().syncExec() method
  • Additionally it should be possible to abort the operation (yes/no) and the user should explicitly mark the dialog to not pop-up again (Ticket #816 msp)
  • Make use of jobs instead of pure threads

Akronym VisuData/Viewmanagement?

  • KiViD (0) vs. KViD (all others) vs. KVoD (3)

Problems w/ Xtext

  • chsch demonstrates synchronization between two (textual) Xtext editors
  • Example parser/serializer w/ simple gramma for AND-OR-expressions
    • Parsing simple, serializing difficult
    • Xtext serialization failure? Bugzilla report (Ticket #817 chsch)

Meta models

  • SyncCharts?
    • 0.1 trunk
    • 0.2 branch
  • Dataflow
    • Trunk
  • Generic Dataflow
    • Ptolemy
    • ----
    • Simulink
    • Graphiz
    • Ptolemy MOML concrete syntax (KlePto?)
    • KGraph, KLayoutOptions (practical lab Graph Editor) ???
    • ...
  • SyncChart? meta model change request: Annotatable (Ticket #819 haf)
  • Oblique routing for edges in GMF editors (Ticket #820 msp)