OpenDDS Foundation TAB Minutes
17 June 2021
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Name |
Title |
Attended |
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David (DJ) James |
Tech Director for Software, DRS Land Systems |
✓ |
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Andrew Job |
Founder and CEO, Plotlogic |
✓ |
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Adam Mitz |
OpenDDS Product Lead and Principal Software Engineer, Object Computing |
✓ |
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Matt Mueller |
Enterprise Operations Branch Head, United States Navy |
✓ |
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Marc Neeley |
Director of Architecture, Object Computing |
✓ |
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Jason Schindler |
Principal Software Engineer, Object Computing |
✓ |
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Johnny Willemsen |
CTO, Remedy IT |
✓ |
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Justin Wilson |
Principal Software Engineer, Object Computing |
✓ |
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Jen Wiese |
Object Computing, OSS Community Engagement Manager, Meeting Scribe |
✓ |
The Meeting Was Led By: Adam Mitz (AM)
Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- A Brief History
- Foundation Goals
- Communication Channels
- Review Roadmap
- Logos On Web Properties
- Open Discussion
Introduction and New Attendee (AM):
- Jen Wiese (JW) - OSS Community Engagement Manager. Evangelism for OpenDDS and other open source products at OCI. Will present Foundation sponsorship information and take board meeting notes.
- Went around the virtual room and learned how the TAB members are currently interacting with OpenDDS
Managing This Agenda (AM)
- Plan to meet once per quarter
- Communication Channels
- foundation@opendds.org
- Anyone can post (questions from the general public)
- Project mailing lists (sourceforge.net) are in the process of being moved to opendds.org
Review Roadmap OpenDDS v3.x (AM)
- OpenDDS v3.x
- Quarterly (at least) release cadence
- Q4 2020 - 3.15
- Q1 2021 - 3.16 (XTypes)
- Q2 2021 - 3.17
- Q3 2021 - 3.18 - planned for July
- Changes needed for various projects
- Performance / scalability improvements
- GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration
- Continued incremental addition of XTypes/IDL4 features
Review Roadmap OpenDDS v4.0 (AM)
- Motivation
- Make it easier to develop and maintain
- Improve overall design focusing on testability
- Breaking changes
- Requiring more modern C++ version
- Dropping support for older platforms
- Removing some transport and discovery options
- Strategy
- Research spikes
- New format for Developer's Guide
Logos On Web Properties (JW)
- New OpenDDS Foundation Logo
- Will see this on social media and as well as on publications and through event promotion as they will be brought to the OpenDDS community by the OpenDDS Foundation
- Working on brand guidelines that will be published soon for the general public
Open Discussion / Qs and As (All)
- Decide acceptance criteria for what goes into releases
- Is Semantic versioning to be considered? Basically been doing that.
- Suggestions for rewriting the Developer's Guide (Markdown/Pandoc, RestructuredText/Sphynx)
- Scheduled next meeting for September
- Discussed agenda items to be brought up for next meeting which includes roadmap prioritization
- Meeting notes will soon be published
- Thank you to everyone who attended