wiki:Meetings/Meet-2010-08-27

Meeting 2010-08-27

  • attendees: cmot, mhei, mmu, bdu, jjc, rvh, haf, nks, uru, ckru, schm (via phone), mri, chsch
  • moderator: haf
  • author: bdu

Topics

Miscellaneous

  • cmot: Integrating Papyrus into KIELER. Demo next Friday.
  • bdu: implementing KIML Evol. Conducting a poll next week. Code review when msp is back
  • haf: making KAOM look like ASCET
  • rvh: @schm: schedule a regular phone meeting with msp as soon as msp is back

KiVi? Demo (mmu)

  • mmu demonstrates View Management
  • preference page
  • what should be highlighted when stepping backward in history?
  • colors
  • ENHANCEMENT: Execution Manager should have an interface to ask for the data of a specific history step: #1143
  • skip steps when workload too high?
  • editor dirty state?
  • report Eclipse Bug: text disappears when exporting PDF -->  Respective Ticket
  • Roadmap:
    • make preferences persistent
    • trigger layout like in KSBasE
    • data flow visualization
    • rvh: implement new features
    • design review

Concurrency in Eclipse

  • haf: concurrency in Eclipse
    • can cause strange problems
    • sometimes unexpected behavior because of race conditions
    • is hard to debug
  • rvh: use classical synchronizing methods?
  • haf: we do synchronize but this does not always help
  • we have no consistent way to deal with it
  • View Management should handle most of it
  • How to do it right from the start?
  • workshop?

Textual SyncCharts?

  • chsch demonstrates SyncCharts? Synchronizing with KITE
  • ENHANCEMENT for KiVi?: trigger layout and zoom-to-fit: #1144
  • write Check for duplicate signal declaration like Signal: A, A, A: #1145
  • Dialog box popping up: abro2.kits has been modified. Save changes before simulating? (recommended) #1142