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Some documents written and/or used by the PMC:
Meeting Schedule
The Eclipse Project PMC has a weekly phone meeting every Tuesday at 11.00am EST.
Meeting Minutes
Juni 20, 2017 - MQ, Dani, Lars, Alex
- Attracting new contributors discussions - code cleanup and deletion of old paths needed
- Alex: Big issue to get people working on codebase and considering many now irrelevant paths in the codebase
- Dani: Cleanups should be done by the one starting them through the whole SDK
- Lars: Not feasible as some projects are slower pace moving and the change might require more effort than one can or is willing to spend in his free time
- Alex: Great opportunity to have new people joining by doing simple tasks and grow them into full committers
- McQ: We have to come up with list of items we would like to get cleaned and properly follow our deprecation policy even if the migration guide for Photon get really big with things we schedule for removal in the future.
- Dani: Sub-projects merge
- Name of the new project - McQ: Everyone refers to it as Platform so natural choice it is
- JDT, PDE, Platform (subprojects) to become single project
- Person responsible for some code area in the merged project - to be further dicussed
- Dani: Dropping Xulrunner support - PMC to approve it in the bug
Juni 13, 2017 - MQ, Dani, Lars
- Dani: Release review for 4.7 was successful
- Dani: Rebuild for 4.7RCa required due to new EMF version and a fix for a critical bug which resulted in duplicated menu entries
- Merge of the sub-projects
- Planned for M1, desired to be coordinated with the move of Equinox to Platform
- We prefer to keep the project pages and wikis so that all the information is kept
- Preferable we want to have one committer list for Eclipse platform
- Dani to check with foundation how the merge can be done
May 30, 2017 - Martin, Dani, Lars
- Dani: Please approve or disapprove the release review
- Dani: Starting the Debugger doesn't work always
- Occurs for Lars, but isn't reproducible - one of the top 3 things to fix if steps to reproduce are found
- Lars: Equinox replaced the DS implementation in 4.7, the issue is probably related
- Failure is totally random: On a very slow Virtual Machine, it failed almost always (9 failures out of 10); on other machine it works most of the time; even after working fine 3 times, it may fail the 4th time; seems to occur more frequently on older machines than newer ones.
- Martin: try with a reverse debugger like Chronon ?
- Should help by just collecting a log; and when the failure occurs, "play back" the log to understand under what condition the race condition occurs; the a reproducible case is available, and the log can also be sent around between different developers for investigation, potentiall also to Apache Felix upstream
- Dani: Equinox Launcher Issues
- During M7, a change was made to ignore certain command-line arguments
- This caused 2 regressions - bug 517013 and bug 516349 MacOSX restart regression
- Java 9 will probably change the parameters again, see bug 516911 :(
- It's getting too late to make any more changes to the Launcher. Re-compiling on different hardware has already caused bug 517013, it's possible that more issues (not yet known) might be caused by the rebuild. With Java 9 probably changing again, we don't win much by rebuilding to try and align with something that's not yet released.
- Option A: Put options into the eclipse.ini -- today it works for both Java 8 and Java 9
- Option B: Add the "probably proposed" new option to the launcher, will need to rebuild the launcher again
- Option C: Revert the launcher to what it was before (and well tested) back to M6 - for running with Java 9, the options have to be added manually
- Users will have to read on a webpage what needs to be done for Java 9 launching; for Eclipse SDK, a single option is needed - some add-on components
- Additional complexity: Different JVMs need different options (IBM, Oracle...)
- Martin: bug 517452 Introduce a fallback mechanism to the launcher, which reads the Java ID and loads 'eclipse-javaID.ini' with a fallback to 'eclipse.ini', but does not seem reasonable for Oxygen since too late
- Better to have a clean story: At IBM, the entire build environment changed ... reverting gets us back to a bullet-proof launcher that was tested for 7 milestones ... will work safely with Java 8, for Java 9 people will have to read the N&N or StackOverflow to find out about the right arguments - same as in Neon
- AGREEMENT to revert the Launcher to the M6 version
May 23, 2017 - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ
- Dani: Apache Batik XXE Vulnerability
- Alex: Moving to Batik 1.9 would be good, but there is so much UI breakage that it's not viable for Oxygen
- Martin: Bugs discovered during RC test cycle
- Surprised that some low-priority issues do get attention (bug 517108) while others get no response at all (bug 517013
- Dani: Only interested in severe issues and regressions - send message to platform-releng-dev with severe regressions found
- Dani: Please +1 the Gerrit for bug 517108
May 16, 2017 - Alex, Martin, Dani, Lars
- Plan Update - updated on Wiki, main plan updated, please provide feedback until tomorrow latest:
- Has Updates to delivered / not delivered, and Target Operating Environment
- bug 509922 Performance Tests: Header is wrong, but it really compares against 4.6.1: results are created but report is wrong
- Code should have been improved through many action enablement changes and startup improvments
- Sravan will work on making a proper comparison against 4.6
- Test failures: Some in Platform/UI fail frequently, the most frequent ones should be considered for fixing
- Browser tests: pick "an available" server, the M7 run was on a newly provisioned server which didn't have all the stuff for Webkit. This should be fixed now.
- CVS tests fail from time to time since the CVS server isn't stable at the foundation
- UI tests may fail if Mozilla or similar show a pop-up dialog requesting an update
- bug 516114 Tabbed Properties View Styling Change
- Due to the code change, the Tabbed Properties View is now loaded even if it's not used; that may degrade performance
- The issue is due to how styling is architected; an OSGi flag activates the plugin if any class is "used", the CCS engine just checks for a class without even instantiating, that already triggers the bundle activation
- That should be discussed for change in 4.7.1 or 4.8 ... maybe use reflection to avoid this, or avoid the need for eager activation of tabbed properties ... Lars did that in the past, but it's a lot of effort
- Activation by itself would be relatively cheap, but then the code goes through all Singleton instantiations - hard to estimate
- The impact is likely small compared to PDE for example, which takes 1.5 seconds out of 6 seconds startup time
- AGREEMENT: In order to be fair to other people who worked on improving startup performance, the change should be reverted. We have a change that benefits few people, but impacts everyone here.
- Lars: OK to revert, but in the next cycle we should look at improving activations in general. Opening the Resource perspective should not activate PDE + JDT (today, this is likely triggered due to some decorators).
- McQ would love to see an "optimistic UI" which can render at least the shell even if not all menus/etc are yet filled in
- Dani is out Thu-Sat, please jump in and help the team if something is needed
- Alex: Project Structure
- Platform/Resources doesn't have a lead at the moment. Would like to merge more and more into Platform/UI. It doesn't make sense keeping separate structures just for the sake of creating barriers to contributions.
- Eventually we'll just have the Platform/UI morph into "The Platform Project" with more co-leads
- In the end it's not about positions and authorities .. it's all about people who are good
- Dani: Agrees; in experience, every 2nd contribution is causing some issues, but we do have good people even if they are not official leads
- McQ: What we really need is high-level overview and authority to recognize changes that might negatively impact others..
- Could eventually end up with JDT/PDE/SWT/Platform. Lars and McQ are not so sure any more if SWT really needs to be separate, had several overlapping contributions - 9 active SWT committers also work on Platform code. Consider moving forward with this after the Oxygen release...
- AGREEMENT to move forward on this, with a Platform Leadership group. We need to advance to leadership of Eclipse along with advancing the code. Leadership change should also lead to growing community.
May 9, 2017 - Alex, Martin, Dani, McQ
- Dani: JSR376 Jigsaw: 10 said yes and 13 said no; a new spec to be provided within 30 days
- From a technical perspective, should be possible to resolve within 30 days
- JDT team implementing a compiler; IBM implementing a JVM, that's completely separate concerns!
- For implementing a compiler, the last spec is quite old, that is not good enough
- JDT team votes via Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation), Mike considered JDT team and RH team and probably others
- Dani: M7/RC0 - test passes upcoming; compressed scheduled due to the moved date for Devoxx
- When using the RC, watch out for 2 things:
- Action contribution enablement fix -- look out for menu and toolbar items not properly enabled
- Section forms layout
- When using the RC, watch out for 2 things:
- Dani: httpcore 4.4.1 -> 4.4.6 ECF Update and API Compatibility
- Annotations got removed - no binary breakage, but breaks source compatibility
- People will prefer newer httpcore; API breakage due to annotations is unlikely
- Also, source breakage gives developers a chance to just recompile, so accepting the new version is better
- Alex: Are we forcing our dependencies to not break API? - We don't have that power anyways?
- Alex: httpclient has security issues every few months ... better consume the latest now, and we'll likely have to update again. So if breaking compatibility, better do it now
- AGREEMENT to do the update and thus accept the source breakage.
- Flooding in Ottawa: Restricted to a fairly small area
- Dani: Release Review, does anybody look at the full document or can it be simplified?
- All of the information in the RV is public (eg bug statistics, # contributors, ...)
- McQ: It's useful for consumers to see that new things are happening, that is the N&N; beyond that, the use is limited. Effort around half a day.
- Many bloggers talk about new things anyways
- Migration Guide and N&N will get into the RV Material; beyond that, Dani offers adding stuff that people request
- AGREEMENT to keep it simple, and send add-on requests to Dani if they come up.
May 2, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, McQ
- Lars: Regex Evaluator Plugin
- Basically a view where one can input a regex and text, and see if it matches
- Would like to add to e4 incubator, goal to eventually add into Platform/Text or similar
- McQ: Where it the boundary between e4 and Platform? How do people kick off little projects .. e4 incubator?
- AGREEMENT to move code to Eclipse.org (into the incubator) and proceed from there. Might not end up in Platform, but will be good having the code at Eclipse.org.
- Dani: Endgame plan sent - Oxygen looking good, not too many bugs open
- Dani: JSR Jigsaw Ballot
- Asking for finalizing the Specs on JSR376 before voting Yes, since otherwise life is hard
Apr 25, 2017 - Dani, Alex, Martin
- Dani: Neon.3a
- Respin done -- problem: Updating from Neon.3 to Neon.3a , the problematic bundles are not removed
- AI Alex tell Jeff to ask Pascal or Tom about how to disable the bundles on update
- Martin: If this problem can't be resolved could live with it ... better not take too much risk trying to resolve this very special problem
- Respin done -- problem: Updating from Neon.3 to Neon.3a , the problematic bundles are not removed
Apr 18, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, McQ
- Dani: RH and Java9 Jigsaw
- Very good write-up linked from the AC Mailinglist - see also follow-up
- Eclipse JDT team concerns that the Spec is not complete brought forward to Wayne
- Dani: Neon.3 Respin
- Last action was with Ed Merks to validate that the Fix from Tom Watson actually works - no update so far
- Lars: Glance Migration to e4 and/or Platform
- e4 incubator was always intended to have very low entry barrier - can give the Glance team access quickly
- Lars
- JUnit 5 licensing - EPL + Apache
Apr 11, 2017 - McQ, Lars, Alex, Dani
- Dani: Update from last Planning Council call:
- There will be a special drop for Java 9 in July, but it has not yet been decided whether it will be a release where users automatically get the update, or a special p2 repository or Marketplace entry where the update can be done on demand.
- Issues with Neon.3. A respin might be necessary. For details see https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-planning-council/msg02741.html.
- Dani: Asked Lars to review the Dark theme bug. Lars, said, he's not a user of it, but has one in his team. Dani: Ask him to review the change.
Apr 04, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex
- Martin: bug 514257 and cross-project Neon.3 wiring issue
- Problem: External libs don't deal with versions the same way we do
- Dani thinks that the problem is that Release Train projects don't agree on one version to use
- Martin saw a similar problem related to some bundles doing import-package and others doing require-bundle:
- Commons Logging is not a Singleton
- Dani has a call with Tom later today; hoping a respin can be done after fixing in Equinox
- Dani: Heads up on upcoming Planning Council discussion re: Java 9 and Junit 5
- Dani: PPC - No response on McQ's message regarding PPC, Dani will update the Plan after another week
Mar 28, 2017 - McQ, Alex, Lars, Dani
- Replacement for Sergey
- let's wait and see how things go
- next candidate would be Tom Watson once Equinox is moved back to the Eclipse top-level project
- Dani: PPC strategy: drop 32-bit, provide 64-bit with Oxygen (4.7) and drop 64-bit BE with Photon (4.8)
- all agree
- McQ will send a note to cross-project-issues-dev
- Lars will nominate Mikaël Barbero for Platform UI
- Lars plans to bring a IDE search plug-in to e4 (http://ystrot.github.io/glance/)
Mar 21, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex
- Dani: Dirk Fauth Requests on eclipse-pmc
- Alex agrees with Dani
- Where does the "0.x version before graduation" requirement come from? - Development Process, but maybe didn't apply to plugin versions
- Dani thinks that forcing a 0.x version causes forced breakage once something goes API thus doesn't make much sense
- Dani: Szymon Ptasiewicz
Mar 14, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex
- Dani: Java 9 readiness - see cross-project-issues-dev
- Step 1: For testing, just download a Java 9 beta JVM, add the module -- all testing is possible from commandline
- Platform team has an install, but Mike was concerned about legal issues - a bug is open to allow all simrel access
- Step 2: Running the JDeps tools as per the Java 9 Readiness wiki can show violations
- Can even run with Java 8, Dani ran it on simrel, it's looking mostly good, only Orbit shows violations
- Platform team has some scripts; for Hudson there's even a Mojo, but it aborts when it finds a violation.
- Step 3: Reflection - Will only figure out when knowing the code or testing
- All these 3 tests can be done without the Java 9 patch in PDE. Only for debugging, one needs to self-host.
- This can be done either with Ed's Oomph support, or via the Marketplace
- Platform team is still negotiating options for better support with Oracle
- Step 1: For testing, just download a Java 9 beta JVM, add the module -- all testing is possible from commandline
- Dani: JUnit 5 considers cutting down features for aligning with Oxygen
- Decision to align, contributing support to Oxygen Update 1 in September
- Dani: 2 Platform Issues in M6
- platform.ui reexports everything including jface - lower bundles not updated - JDT may fail if installed (fixed for M7)
- major version uprev: interface not marked as @noimplement; reverting the version, people who loaded Friday's M6 would never get any updates any more; decision to stick to the version uprev, since the respective bundle is not used a lot
- In general, accidental major version uprev should be reverted because the error would stay around for long and might break existing binary bundles who can't be fixed any more
- In this case, it was OK to keep since the bundle isn't used much
- Alex: Generic Editor and Testing
- Looking very good already - only 1/3 of the code needed for getting the same feature set as with existing methods for creating editors
- Looking for features to add missing documentation (workflows, use-cases like converting existing editors): End goal is to provide everything that the JDT Editor is providing
- Dani: Likes replacement of pages on multipage editors, and some new editors; would not consider replacing the JDT editor
- In the Platform.ISV docs bundle, there should be a section for "how to write your own editor"
Mar 7, 2017 - Dani, Martin, Alex, Sergey, Lars
- Dani: 4.6.3 Updates - Looking good, Equinox bugs moved out by Tom
- Dani: 4.7M7 Update - Infrastructure issues but testing looks OK (except Mac which is not built yet)
- Dani: Java 9 / Planning Council Update - Postponing Oxygen was discussed but denied; late July update being considered
- Lars: Platform.Resources Leadership after Sergey Leaving
- Dani pinged Szymon, will continue discussion when we hear back; merging with platform.ui is one option
- Sergey: The "Team" and "Resources/Filesystem" parts could be considered separately. Consider merging Team into UI.
- Alex: One top Platform Project would make sense now...
- Dani: reconsider when McQ is back. In the past, SWT was seen as separate.
- Dani: Releng needs to be separate and protected because Releng committers can also change Hudson jobs, shut down servers etc where no history is kept
Feb 28, 2017 - Sergey, Alex, Martin, McQ
- Alex: Short update on Neon.3
- 2 jdt.core bugs asking for PMC approval - regressions compared to Neon.2, approved
- PPC rebuild is in, so looking good
- Sergey will leave Eclipse work after end of March
- Martin: RCPTT / Reddeer / Testing
- Reddeer: No tests that check Platform only - everything is on higher level today (WTP, server connectors etc)
- Runs on Neon.2 right now inside RH - the infrastructure isn't built for consuming daily builds
- Would take some effort reducing to Platform only - no time for this in the RH team at the moment
- AI Martin will look at integrating RCPTT as time permits; would like bug 505826 resolved ideally
- McQ will be out next 2 weeks
Feb 21, 2017 - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars, Sergey
- Lars: bug 512273 Allow any committer to retrigger Gerrit validation, and bug 512319 allow rebase
- Agreement to allow retrigger for anyone, but rebase should be done by committers working on a contribution
- Dani: Not clear where to retrigger (Sergey: it's discoverable once permission is there)
- AI Lars follow up on the bug
- Martin: UI Testing
- RCPTT is completely Open Source; commercial server could be used for load balancing tests but this is not necessary
- Alex: Interested in Reddeer for upstreaming tests that already exist at RH; good reports about stability and scalability at RH
- When we decide which way we go, we need a plan who's doing the work (create the tests). Maintenance would depend on their structure.
- Some Reddeer tests already upstreamed with WTP and Linuxtools
- Lars: Where would the tests live? - In a common project accessible to all, or with the component they test ?
- Lars, Dani: Since these are functional end-to-end, should live in their own repository, accessible by all committers.
- AI Martin follow-up with Jubula. Try RCPTT on Windows and Linux. Give feedback till next week.
- AI Alex share list of Reddeer tests existing at RH
- AI Lars play with the Reddeer API
- Dani: Update on PPC drop 32-bit, build 64-bit both le and be on RH VMs bug 512224
- Alex: ppc64 currently built on Fedora 25; could build on REL7 if foundation requests a machine from RH Brno Farm AI Alex and Dani ask Denis
- Dani: Neon.3 RC3 please keep an eye on builds
- Dani: Away this Friday afternoon and whole next week
Feb 15, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 - Dani, Alex, Martin, Lars
- Dani: bug 509412 - Adopt newer JSch for Platform 4.6.3
- Alex is fully consumed with Webkit work for Oxygen
- Need to move target platform to the latest Orbit in order to pick up the new JSch; that might cause other changes, since Orbit retention policy keeps only one version
- Dani: Cherry-pick the new JSch recipe to the Orbit Maintenance Branch ?
- Martin: Looks like in the past, new Orbit R-Builds were made for Maintenance ... but with the move of Orbit to git, it is unclear how branch builds for Neon.x would be made
- Dani: Update on RT PMC (Equinox) coming to Platform
- Tom Watson is in favor, reached out to Wayne for process
- Potentially move entire IP log, but IP team is currently busy with CQs for Oxygen
- Dani: Finally Unblocked on Java Language Server
- Dirk from Microsoft signed the committer agreement
- Dani: Scenarios for UI Testing
- Initial Scenario from the PMC Notes can already be used; once that works, could extend to more
- Dani: Sign Up for Security Rep
- See Wayne's message to PMCs requesting PMC attendance
- John Arthorne used to be the Security Rep;
- Tasks: Follow the security mailing list; currently low volume but might get higher with IoT getting up speed
- RESOLUTION: Alex agrees to sign up since already following security issues
- Dani+Alex: libswt-gtk3 natives for PPC
- Alex: Trying to limit the list of supported GTK versions to maximum 2; now at the latest GTK2 version
- Currently, only Intel builds do both GTK2 and GTK3; PowerPC only does GTK2; the current hardware is unable to install REL7
- Would prefer building at the Foundation over using custom company hardware; cost of hardware is around 50K
- Primary Platforms should be built at the Foundation, secondary builds can be contributed ... should Linux-PPC be considered primary ?
- Alex could easily provide a Fedora Platform, but it would be much newer than anything else that's around; ARM32 and ARM64 builds are already provided by Fedora
- If somebody (IBM) needs an older version like CentOS, it would need to be provided by such adopters
- AI Dani+McQ find out on priority of Linux-PPC (32bit, 64bit)
- Alex: Update on Reddeer Testing Framework
- A new version is being written, that no longer uses SWTBot underneath; there's a plan making this an Eclipse project
- Engineers claim that after the rewrite it's a lot more stable recognizing widgets than on top of SWTBot
- Martin has been looking at RCPTT which looks promising initially (easy to record tests) but unclear how stable such tests would be.
- (call had to be closed at this point)
Feb 1, 2017 - cancelled
Jan 24, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex
- Dani: New Jetty Version - Alex will look at it after FOSDEM (Feb 7)
- Dani: javax.xml - Plan to announce removal from the feature on cross-project for M6
- Cannot remove from the compile prerequisites, because plugins still on Java 5 need it
- Alex: Reddeer Testing Framework
- JBoss Tools uses Reddeer for overall user story validation
- Lars: Why wasn't the framework added to SWTBot? -
- Reddeer is not a framework, it's meant as a test harness library - smaller scope than SWTBot or Jubula
- API Stability across multiple Eclipse versions is out of scope, thus created outside Eclipse for now
- Martin: Any improvements in object recognition compared to plain SWTBot?
- Reddeer tries to make use of the best mechanisms from SWTBot for object recognition (Finder, or callbots). That saves users from making newbie mistakes in SWTBot, but apart from that it's no better
- No solution for external (non-Eclipse) dialogs ... that's not doable in SWT
- Lars: EclipseSource people have been talking about RCPTT, it might be able to deal with native tooltips etc
- Dani and Lars think Jubula is too heaviweight; might work for Integration Builds, but not for individual developer's builds. Local setup must be really easy. Also, setup looks non-trivial, needs resources to work on ... and, doesn't seem to add much benefit over SWTBot (assuming that Jubula agent doesn't hook into native libs like win32, Cocoa or GTK).
- Alex: Especially integration in Maven may be hard.
- Alex: Main limitation is that we don't have resources to actually create tests. Suggest reaching out for help asking people who would actually create tests ... then use whatever framework that people would like to use.
- Dani and Lars won't be able to come up with a workflow scenario before end of next week --> Alex will come up with an idea since he has meetings on Monday.
- Dani: Launch Eclipse, choose a workspace, open the package explorer, create a Java project (helloworld). Expand later, maybe into quick assist.
- AI Alex to demo Reddeer in 2 weeks
- AI Martin to try installing Jubula until next week
- AI Martin ping Sergey re: asking for help on Platform/Resources.
Jan 17, 2017 - Dani, Sergey, Alex, Lars, Martin, McQ
- Sergey: Merging platform.resources with platform.ui
- Seems that more contributions to platform.resources are made by platform.ui committers, than others. Only 2 platform.resources committers seem active (and those two are actually platform.ui committers as well)
- Opening up to Platform UI would encourage more people to actually contribute to resources. Strive for shared access on components that are interrelated
- Dani: Merging into platform.ui would mean making Dani and Lars the leaders for signoff - that causes too much burden
- Sergey: Platform/Team has actually more synergy with Platform/UI than resources
- Alex: For gcc for example, there is a notion of "maintainers" per git repo for signoffs - that's independent of leadership or commit rights
- McQ: Not sure how adding another role would simplify things ?
- Sergey: The problem for signoffs is not is much the volume of commits, but the volume of failing tests
- Alex: The manpower of Platform Resources is so low by now that even bug 509412 was not being filed ... existing committers do not really seem to "own" the project any more, this is an indication for merging
- Martin: Can't see how merging into a bigger entity would resolve the "ownership" problem. Perhaps make interested contributors Platform/Resources committers instead, and see how to resolve the ownership issue on the smaller scope ?
- McQ: Propose applying the recent simplification of gaining commit rights (for "known" committers)
- Seems that more contributions to platform.resources are made by platform.ui committers, than others. Only 2 platform.resources committers seem active (and those two are actually platform.ui committers as well)
- Lars: Removing javax.xml
- Was introduced only for very old JRE's , it is part of the JRE now
- Martin: Might cause a uses constraint issue since not exporting the package with version any more, see http://njbartlett.name/2011/09/02/uses-constraints.html
- Lars: With javax.annotation, that was solved with smart reexporting
- McQ: OK with removal when we can confirm we're not breaking things
- Dani: Whoever requested removal should double-check whether the API is the same.
- AI Lars send a note to Tom Watson as the submitter.
- Dani: Project Updates
- Deadlines upcoming for CQs and APIs - see Endgame Plan, please provide feedback
- McQ: UI Testing and Jubula
Jan 10, 2017 - Dani, Lars, Martin, Alex, Sergey, McQ - Special Guest: Alex Schladebeck
- Dani: Platform Bits on Maven Central - Now available thanks to Stephan Herrmann
- Dani: Board Committer Rep Elections opening
- Dani: After David Williams' move, Wayne is looking for a Planning Council Chair; Fred Gurr has taken over Simrel Releng
- Dani: objenesis (Mockito / Easymock dependency) and Java9 - will wait for how upstream is planning to address issues
- Lars: Equinox move to Platform - no updates - AI Dani talk to Tom again
- McQ / AlexS: Jubula
- In the past, with lots of full-time Platform committers, sniff tests just happened automatically giving great confidence. Now, with more part-time work happening, there is more need for end-to-end workflow test automation to give quality confidence
- Martin: On top of low-level JUnit tests, want at least very few highlevel end-to-end test to avoid "Eclipse looking silly". Need UI tests that are really stable (avoid random failures)
- Dani: On EGit SWTBot tests, too many libraries to install, how to run on Gerrit HIPP slaves
- AlexS: Original Jubula goal was to allow non-programmers write tests. Beginning 2015, the client API (for controlling the SUT) was separated from the front-end, was separated from the ITE. This allows writing UI tests programmatically, and avoids the need for a database.
- For identifying components/actions to write tests, officially an object mapping needs to be done in the front-end (ITE, integrated test environment). But there may be a shortcut available for getting object IDs
- Compared to SWTBot, Jubula is 90% blackbox (code highlevel actions rather than things like calling setText())
- UI Tests typically take longer than unittests by definition (due to setup, teardown, ...), so might not be applicable for Gerrit triggers
- Dani: Would like to run a first test on CentOS first, as part of the integration tests
- Lars: Robustness of the tests? - SWT on Mac is problematic, but Linux and Windows should be OK.
- Martin: Dependencies? - Around 5MB Libs, plus the agent needs to be installed (around 100MB). Once that is there, tests are stand-alone on a laptop. There might also be an "embedded agent" but not sure (AI AlexS to check)
- Getting a first test up and running ? - Maybe around 1 week, depends on what to do ?
- Lars: Would like something for quick access. Martin would something for "fresh download" (fresh config area + workspace) maybe combined with quick access.
- AI AlexS send slides
- AI Dani + Lars propose scenarios. Check possible owners of the initiative on Platform/UI side
- AI AlexS check possible PlatformUI Contributors from Jubula team to get started


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- skippydarling
- 5 years ago
- Wedding: February 2014
My mom wanted a day-of coordinator and she's happy with it but so far, I don't see the big deal.
We've got an event coordinator through the venue and I understand the timelines and am organizing everything myself. What exactly is she going to be doing?
Telling us where to go? I know where to go. She needs all the contracts and wants to be CC'd on all the emails to our florist, bakery, etc so she's in the know, which is great but what exactly is she going to do with all that info? I guess she's going to make sure it's executed properly but I can do that. I'm the one with the vision for this thing, not her…..shouldn't it be ME doing all of that?
So far she's said she will help set up the tables (guest, cake, memorial) but the florists and the venue are already doing that. I know she can watch the card box and make sure it doesnt' get stolen but…I don't know. She even has an assistant.
What did you have your coordinator do for you?

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Newly Lucid Michelle Shocked Supports Gay Marriage on CNN
Embattled folkie visits Piers Morgan to clear the air
It is now very possible, if not likely, that the greater public will be soon be allowed to once again forget Michelle Shocked. In an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan Monday night (April 1) the embattled folk singer stated unequivocally that she is not homophobic and, what's more, that she supports gay marriage. This after a confusing, seemingly anti-gay rant at a show in San Francisco, a muddled apology, and an chat with SPIN that only confounded matters.
Transcripts and recordings of Shocked's initial diatribe did very little to clear up the artist's actual feelings on California's controversial Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage after the practice had already been made legal. "Once Prop 8 gets instated," she misspoke, "and once preachers are held at gunpoint, and forced to marry the homosexuals, I'm pretty sure that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back." She was referring to the Rapture.
But as she has mostly failed to explain since, Shocked claims she was making a point to contrast "truth" versus "reality." The musician finally makes this clear-ish in her conversation with Morgan. She calls "reality" a "macabre distortion of truth." As Gawker observes, the distinction is likely, "That while the truth is that gay people are no less deserving of rights than anyone else, the reality is that not everyone agrees with it." If only she'd actually said those words.
She did, however make a point at the original concert to poll the audience on whether they wanted to hear "truth" or "reality," and it was only after they asked for the latter that Shocked said anything particularly controversial, batshit or confusing (which, for the record, reality often is). "So you're not homophobic?" Morgan asks. "No, I'm not homophobic." "Do you have any problem with gay marriage?" "No, I don't." "Do you support full gay rights?" "Absolutely."
Shortly before that exchange, Shocked expressed an uncharacteristically rational viewpoint: "And I'd like to make it even simpler. I am, for the last 10 years, so deeply in love with a man that the idea of living my life without him is impossible. I know how much I love him, and knowing that passion that I have for him, would I ever want to deny that to someone else? Absolutely not." Awesome. Now we can forget this exhausting reality and revisit the truth of 1988:


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Here's a better picture of the ui currently. The problem I am having is shortening the runic power bar. I don't know how to resize it. I would like to resize the TGA files themselves, but I don't know how and where to modify the code for the skin.
Ultimately I would like to trim off the extra wingtips of runic power in this screenshot, then it would be the perfect mod for me.
Here is a screenshot of what I'm trying to change:
Here is a screenshot of the clean ui, doublesize for clarity:
|By: Voorije - 09-30-08 05:44 PM
Just so you know, a minimalist theme is in the concept phase, it's something i wanted to make, just havent wrapped my head around what it should look like yet.
Additionally, the disease tracker will be enable/disable friendly soon.
|By: Scraps232 - 10-03-08 09:37 AM
What programs would you recommend to use for manipulating the XML and LUA code for addons such as these? I am learning more about these languages/technology and interested in knowing more.
I would also like to help be able to create skins for your mod and contribute, and I willing to teach myself enough to do so.
|By: Voorije - 10-04-08 06:48 PM
Unfortunately, I've noticed a small bug in my api for skins, it's not ready to be pluggable quite yet.
This will be fixed within the next couple builds for sure.
For editing xml/lua i use Notepad++
|By: Scraps232 - 10-08-08 09:38 PM
|Any suggestions on how to reduce the size of the bar itself? Should I just make a smaller, resized 3 images and use the alpha channels to block out the area of the filled bar?


text: Dave and Greg,Some quick comments below.Dave Airlie wrote:> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Greg KH <email@example.com> wrote:> >> Hi,>>>> Here's 5 patches that add the Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver to the>> kernel tree.>>>> There are 4 patches that make changes to the DRM core, and one patch>> that adds the DRM driver itself. The driver is added to the>> drivers/staging/ directory because it is not the "final" driver that>> Intel wishes to support over time. The userspace api is going to>> change, and work is currently underway to hook up properly with the>> memory management system.>> >> >> However this work is going to take a while, and in the meantime, users>> want to run Linux on this kind of hardware. I'd really like to add the>> driver to the staging tree, but it needs these core DRM changes in order>> to get it to work properly.>>>> Originally I had a patch that basically duplicated the existing DRM>> core, and embedded it with these changes and the PSB driver together>> into one big mess of a kernel module. But Richard convinced me that>> this wasn't the "nicest" thing to do, and he did work on the PSB code>> and dug out these older DRM patches.>>>> The only thing that looks a bit "odd" to me is the unlocked ioctl patch,>> Thomas, is that thing really correct?>>>> David, I'd be glad to take the DRM changes through the staging tree, but>> only if you ack them.>> >> First off, the non-staging patches need more complete changelog entries,> a bit of meaning goes a long way. I'll ack them if they are documented and> make sense. The unlocked ioctl hook makes sense to me at least!> For the non-staging patches, (which also sit in the modesetting-newttm tree),I can add some more elaborate comments. However I think all of them are targeted to support functionality for TTM, so unless the TTM code goes into staging or mainstream, there is little point in merging them to core drm before other drivers find them useful.Although I see the patch adding TTM is including some backwards compatibility defines(In particular the PAT compat stuff) that needs to be stripped.> Now the non-core DRM driver comes with some caveats no one mentioned,> only the userspace 2D is open, no userspace 3D is available and I've no idea if> one is forthcoming. Now I don't know enough about the Poulsbo to say this> drm implementation is secure and can't DMA over my password file.>> The GPU in Poulsbo / Morestown can only access memory through a multi-context 4GB two-level page-table, and the implementation of that is open in psb_mmu.c.The VDC is accessing memory through a traditional Intel GTT: psb_gtt.cThe registers used to set up the page table are blocked from user-space access. Any registers used to fire GPU assembly code with privileges to change those registers are also blocked.So security-wise there is nothing worse with this device than with other devices without full open documentation. And AFAICT it's more secure than some drivers _with_ full open documentation.The non-existence of an open-source 3D implementation doesn't really alter that situation.However, if there's a policy issue about adding Linux kernel support for closed-source user-space drivers, I think it helps to be explicit about that.> There is no upstream X.org driver available for this yet, Ubuntu> shipped something> but really we should be at least seeing X.org and Mesa commitments from Intel> to supporting this code in the future before we go shipping it all in> the kernel.>> ...> Staging something with a very broken userspace API is going to be an nightmare,> its fine if my audio doesn't work, but when X fails to start people> are left in a lot worse> place, personally I would never stage any driver that can break the> users userspace> this badly when we finally do get a version we want to upstream> properly. 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I hide in alleys or behind parked cars, behind dumpsters or trash cans, behind coffee shops or nightclubs, dimly lit parking lots, parking lots with way too much light, the periphery, Burger King bathrooms - waiting for victims.
When I see one, I leap out of the shadows, overpower him, and make him fill out my compatibility test. Six questions, all multiple choice (though I also recommend a brief bio and favorite movies). If he passes, I give him my phone number and tell him to call me because I'd really be interested in a relationship. This is just a ruse. As the relief cancels his adrenaline, I lunge.
I need about 3 pints of blood every night to survive. Sometimes this forces me to be less than picky about the source. I once bit Vanilla Ice. Another night, the singer of INXS. One time I siphoned blood from a drainpipe filled with dead rats. Another night: Gwen Stefani. After I'm done drinking my victim's blood, I dispose of the corpse and take the bus home. I don't have a car, so I rely on public transportation. I work second shift at Borders.
When I can't get blood, I drink Berry Bop, a Japanese cola comprised of 90% amphetamines and 10% berry flavor derived from amphetamines. If I drink too many cans, my pulse races and my mouth gets filled with a chalky substance that I believe to be bits of ground-up teeth. Berry Bop withdrawal makes one sweat profusely, which can be bad for pores. These are the things a gay vampire must consider.
Some nights, I fight werewolves. I also frequent haunted houses. I'm learning how to teleport.
I'd call it an alternative lifestyle, except that makes it sound like I had a choice.
In my first year of college, I was known as a poet. Mostly by myself, but also by one or two girls I showed my poems to. My poetry was a response to the anomie of post-adolescent but pre-anything-by-The-Flaming-Lips angst. At a certain point in life, death inevitably creeps into the margins of one's notebooks. I stayed up late at night, pouring myself into my work, writing a postscript to a life all but written.
One night, following a poetry slam that had to be adjourned early due to my intense recital, I was walking down the street a block from my house. As I approached the streetlight on the corner of Preston and Commercial, a man in a dashing Armani cape jumped out of the shadows and asked me, politely, if he could drink my blood. Something about his request made me suspicious, so I asked him if he was a gay vampire.
"No," he said. "Although I see how you could make that assumption, since I am well-groomed, and this stylish wardrobe does betray my excellent fashion sense, which I'm not ashamed to say is a huge part of how I define myself as a vampiric-but-definitely-heterosexual male seeking empowerment in a society that extols beauty, but equates it with a feminine vulnerability that to most men is an unobtainable ideal."
My brain eventually realized he was done talking and sent a signal to my body to nod. Unfortunately, I muffed the nodding motion, lifting my head way too high and giving him a clear view of my slender, sexy neck. He immediately lunged at me and sunk his perfectly formed teeth into my jugular. Gay vampires' fangs secrete venom that is chemically similar to amyl nitrate and produces a similar euphoria, accompanied by paralysis. The next few minutes were an orgy of chemical bliss that I can't really describe.
After my assailant was done sucking my blood, he dragged me into an alley and left me there, still paralyzed. As I lay on the pavement for the next few hours, I found myself intensely contemplating the nearby streetlight, partially to maintain my sanity, partially because I'd become self-conscious about my complexion and knew that sodium-vapor bulbs were unflattering. Finally I lost consciousness. When I woke up in a hospital the next day, I found out via a chart above my bed that I was a gay vampire. I also received word that I'd been expelled from college for exposing myself during a poetry slam. For reasons I can't fully articulate, I also blame gay vampires for this.
In these contentious political times it is more important than ever to work together in a bipartisan way with the people who said I should be thrown out of a helicopter for being an Antifa terrorist.
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The desktop background turned black, almost all the icons on his desktop disappeared, and everything in the internal hard drive seems to have been wiped out. Since it's his business computer, I was mainly concerned with recovering those files. A Windows Repair window would open and detected several problems with the computer. Several Hard Disk Failure warnings and some delayed write warnings would pop up.
I rebooted the computer several times, and the same thing happened. Windows Repair was unable to fix any of the problems. I rebooted and started the computer in Safe Mode but all the files were still missing. So then, I did a Windows Recovery and recovered the computer back to a previous date (6-16-11, to be exact).
Now the warnings aren't coming up and the background of the computer is back to normal, but all the icons that originally disappeared are still gone and the internal hard drive is still completely empty. Thankfully, I just realized that we have an external hard drive that has been backing up all his files every night so everything is fine. The computer seems to be functioning well but I just want to make sure I don't need to replace some of the hardware or something...
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text: I've been trying to check large amounts of URL pageranks in Scrapebox and I always seem to run into a wall. It starts fast with the checking, gradually slows down, and then comes to a halt. I'm trying to check in the neighborhood of 500,000 URLs eventually, but split it up into 10,000 groups and still have significant problems making it past 2,000 or so URLs checked. I'm guessing that the proxy IPs are getting blocked by google for querying too many times, but is there a way around this?


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Rain for Saturday?
Rain for Saturday?
All in all we should enjoy a beautiful holiday weekend across the area. We are watching an upper level storm system across central Texas.
Enough moisture will be present to provide a 30% chance for a shower or storm throughout the day on Saturday. It's not a day to cancel your outdoor plans; however, grab the umbrella for a chance for some splash and dash showers and storms. No severe weather is expected with highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s.
If you are heading out on the lake grab the sunblock. The sun angle is intense even with the clouds. The shower and storms chances should diminish after sundown.


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This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the Sunset Junction Street Fair. Why would this matter to Orange County? Well, I'm glad you asked and I'll explain in a minute. First, some background.
Silver Lake is the bohemian or, some say seedy (not true), part of eastern Hollywood. It's where Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevards meet; thus the name. Thirty years ago, it was an uncomfortably violent neighborhood. Whites, Blacks, Latinos and Asians were all at one another. And they all went after the gays.
A group of residents thought that if only the various peoples of the neighborhood could become more familiar with each other, tensions would diminish. It was, at the time, a rather bold notion. If we all get to know one another, maybe we wouldn't be so afraid of someone who don't look or act like us. As we get to know one another, we get to celebrate the richness of our diversity.
OK, you're pretty skeptical about this, right? Well, the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles were, too. They were actually more than skeptical. But a few people at various levels of authority thought it was worth a try. So the city did issue, perhaps reluctantly, the necessary permits.
Planning the event, in the early days, took place in living rooms and around kitchen tables. The planning group, initially a handful, grew to a couple dozen. Nearly all were residents of the area and the others brought either expertise in planning events of this nature or excitement at the prospect of doing good (that's good, not well)
In the immediate area of the street fair, there are (or were at the time, it may be different now) no fewer than 13 recognized gangs. Street fair planners went to the gang leaders and negotiated a truce for the weekend along with a guarantee of safe passage to the festival for all. And then the planners went a step further. They invited the gangs to provide security for the event. Oh, holy crap! Right? Altamont all over again. But no. these people are smart. Everyone who would be working security had to undergo training led by someone who knows about how to do it right.
The logic behind this move is elegant in its simplicity. Treat people with dignity and respect and 99.99% of the time, that's how they will respond. It is in large measure, that lack of dignity and respect along with other factors that drive people into gangs. Consistent with that line of thinking is also the second component. Give people a genuine opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way and not just make-work. It gives people a stake in the outcome.
It worked. The whole plan worked. On every level. Violence overall is down in the neighborhood. I'm aware of only one incident at the street fair. It was 20 or so years ago and involved a couple of gang bangers from outside the area who didn't know or understand about the truce and safe passage. It was quickly, quietly and properly handled.
So, here's why it matters to Orange County. We have gangs in Orange County. Many politicians and some so-called community leaders bemoan their existence and do little-to-nothing of real substance to cure the problem. Usually we hear about it only at election time or when someone is attacked or killed. Yes, the problem is bigger than what the Sunset Junction Street Fair can fix. And it won't go away overnight. It's equally true that there are ways to improve the situation. I'm told that 50% of all US gang murders occur in Los Angeles. If a bunch of regular folks in one neighborhood can get together and improve relations in big, busy Los Angeles, we can do it here in Orange County. We have a problem. Here's one effective, successful solution. We have the talent and expertise to put something like this in place. What we lack is the will. We lack the courage to speak with people who aren't like us. It's time to get over that.
This is a five minute trailer for a documentary that was made in 2001.
Kudos to Micheal McKinley for keeping it going from the start and for all these years. Kudos also to those brave souls, too numerous to list, who staged the street fair in its early years and to those who plan it today. You have much to feel good about.
The street fair is tomorrow, Saturday from 11am to 11pm and Sunday from 11am to 10pm. Proceeds from the event benefit a number of local youth programs.
(Disclosure: Though not in the first year, I was involved early on for about five or so years in planning the street fair.)


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Although the new iPhone 7 can run faster with its most powerful A10 fusion chip, it may also get frozen screen in Apple logo or recovery mode like other iOS devices, after updating to a new software or restoring from iTunes. As is often the case in this situation, you can't restart an iPhone 7 because your frozen device won't show you the screen to "slide to power off". And you have to force restart your iPhone 7 to get out of this issue.
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I stay at Rheebok which is 5 minutes drive from the river. The spots are very time and tide orientated as are all estuary fisheries. However if there is water on the flats in a failing light, you will find Grunter. I avoid weekends and holidays as the Grunter are very skittish and sensitive to boats and wading anglers. A boat is useful but I have access upstream through a farmer friend to an extensive mud flat that works best on a spring high tide fishing crab flies. Above the railway bridge there is a big mudflat that is being continuously pumped for prawns and the channels leading to it are disappearing due to encroachment of sand - in fact over the past year, the sand bank has moved 50 to 60 meters upstream as the river has not had a decent flushing for quite awhile. Down there I fish articulated Prawn flies made from deer fur or sculpting fibre and foam. The small Leeries love them.
That is a good tie. Also do one in shrimp pink to imitate a sand prawn. Do them in weighted and unweighted.
" Not tonight baby! I gotta fly"


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Desmond Bell is a Northern Irish filmaker and academic. Over the last decade he has directed a series of documentary films which have been widely screened on television and in the cinema. These include 'Hard Road to Klondike', 'The Last Storyteller', 'Rebel Frontier' and most recently 'The Enigma of Frank Ryan' – released earlier this year. These films combine moving image archival material with narrative voice and elements of re-enactment/reconstruction in a distinctive and quite analytic manner.
In the violent period immediately leading up to the 1994 IRA ceasefire he set out on an attempt at a vérité documentary about the rave scene that was in full swing at the time in and around Belfast. The scene, like the punk scene of the late seventies, seemed to be providing participants and observers with glimpses of a possible non-sectarian identity and future.
Bell's early films (available here) concern themselves with the nature of loyalist identity and culture in the early nineties and particularly with the experiences of young people within that culture. During the making of 'Dancing on Narrow Ground' Bell sought the active help of groups of young participants in the ostensibly 'non-sectarian' rave scene from both loyalist and republican communities. The quite gripping, raw, almost investigative film looks in a detached and critical way at the notion of rave somehow providing a cultural shortcut to a non-sectarian future. The film was completed in 1995. It, for reasons discussed by the director in the short interview below, was never broadcast on television and never found a significant audience.
EC: What was the motivation for making the film?
DB: I have had a longstanding interest in youth cultures in NI and the issue of whether these subvert or reproduce sectarian relations. John Davies 1978 film 'Shell Shock Rock' explored the world of punk in Belfast and how it transcended the sectarian divide. I wanted to see if 'rave' culture a decade and a half later could do the same. With the worsening conflict it could not – except in the midst of drug fuelled gatherings.
EC: I get the impression your background led you to identify quite strongly with the young Loyalist drum fan who features heavily in the film. Do you know what became of him?
DB: Johnny Nevins? Sadly he died several weeks ago, age 34, after a sad life of drugs, petty crime and self-harming. He always seemed to me on a collision course with danger but a lovely guy despite the personal tragedies he experienced. His father was killed in the Maze breakout. He was a prison officer. Johnny was not bitter about it.
EC: What influenced your strong 'vérité' approach to the film?
DB: I had experimented with a vérité style in a number of earlier films but combined with a film essay form. Here I wanted to get close to the kids and let them tell their story. I am not sure vérité does that as the director's point of view is always smuggled in and this is wilfully obscured by the apparent photographic verisimilitude.
EC: Who funded it and why was the film never broadcast? Why have you decided to make it available on the internet?
DB: The film was funded by the Cultural Traditions Group in NI. They funded a range of cultural projects that challenged the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland. You'll have to ask BBC NI why it was not accepted for broadcast. Something about the foul language and the wrong class of person being featured, I seem to recollect. I was persuaded by Connor Clements who assists me in my film making to put it on the internet. I should have done it years ago – but then you couldn't really with bandwidths etc.
EC: Your work since has not utilised the same approach. Why?
DB: As I say I am unconvinced by the honesty of the vérité approach and besides which I am getting a bit old for gadding round the streets following youth groups!
EC: The film reminded me when I watched it first of Shellshock Rock by John T. Davis. Did that film influence it?
DB: See above. I think DANCING is a more analytical and critical film in that it engages more directly with issues of sectarianism and political identity. John's film of course has the energy! But we seem to be enjoying a new round of sentimentality with regards punk in NI with GOOD VIBRATIONS which might have profited from following the punk film aesthetic John pioneered.
EC: The scene at the end when you sit down to have a 'jar' with the nationalist/republican participants is very powerful. Were you ever afraid while filming scenes like that?
DB: Not really. I had by that time spent several years on ethnographic work in the North and like a good journalist you learn to assess the risks. This was the night of the declaration of the IRA ceasefire in 1994 and the start of the peace process and all the kids were in a good mood. I did, however, have my tyres slashed in west Belfast that night – probably an act of ordinary decent vandalism!
EC: Do you think that a non-sectarian youth culture now exists on a large scale in the north?
DB: Not at all. There is the facade of this among the middle class youth in south Belfast and in the club scene but the divisions are as entrenched as ever and have not really been challenged in the peace era – in fact quite the opposite. The sociological evidence suggests a deepening of sectarianism in education, residentially and in cultural terms.
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The section on becoming a provider is an online form covering information such as practitioner name, address and credentials. Also, providers are to indicate their reason for applying, services offered, retail affiliation and Coalition for Affordable Quality Healthcare credential information.
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Darkness Out Of Fire
(From Hela, To Her Father)
As the eldest, I was the luckiest.
I had the two of them the longest, content
In my mother's hall – she like the hearthfire
That never burned out, but sometimes flared up,
He like the sun that came and went.
Two matched fires so hot, so passionate
That they almost made the coldness in me melt,
Or come close to it, on rare occasion.
I watched in silence as their love raged
And bloomed by turns; two so volatile could not
Dwell in quiet contentment, but I could see
How much they craved it. Each other's addiction,
Even coming to blows would mean pelting into bed.
They loved their children just as passionately
And loudly; I tumbled on the floor with my brother
And slapped him when he ate the bones
I had so carefully reassembled from the midden heap,
And our sister-brother, like a live toy, carried
On exploits through the forest. Yet I could see
In my parents' faces, the looks they turned on me.
They loved me, yes, but awe stood there as well,
And put a strange distance between us. When I grew
Chest-high, and my skin-swift form began to rot,
My mother told me to stay away from the kitchen,
But still stroked my cheek. You, father, took me
On your lap as you had done before, never mind the scent
Of Death, and kissed me, though your eyes watered,
And pretended it was tears.
I do not dwell on the day when our home was broken,
My siblings imprisoned, and I began the journey
Through cold and snow to seek my destiny. I knew
It was at least half your doing, that your tangled wyrd had
Shattered ours, but once I reached the gates of my true home
I knew that my own would protect me now. So I can forgive,
Save for my one act of vengeance, and that is over now,
And my brother's pain, the breaking of our homefire avenged.
I never inherited your fire. My blood hearkened back to Her,
Our first ancestress born of the sleeping icy mountain-sire,
She whose cold hand stirs the waters of the highest Well,
I was once her second daughter, before Death died.
Now I am yours, and mother to none of my body
But thousands of souls to care for. I sing dead babes to sleep
With love taught to me by a fickle trickster and an ungentle
Wolf-woman, yet if you were as they say, could this gift
You gave to me that I give every day to others,
Hundreds, thousands, could it be so strong and true?
You taught me how to love without judgment, as if you knew
That one day it would be my daily task, to stretch a cold heart
So wide open that it would hold a million souls.
Raven Kaldera
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Media converters transparently convert the incoming electrical signal from one cable type and then transmit it over another type, usually UTP to fiber. They are often used in pairs to insert a fiber segment into copper networks to increase cabling distances and enhance immunity to electromagnetic interference. They can also be used to connect one type of network, say 10/100-Mbps Ethernet to 1000-Mbps Ethernet.
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Chassis-based or modular media converter systems are normally rackmountable and have slots to house media converter modules. The chassis gives you room to grow. These are used when many Ethernet segments of different media types need to be connected in a central location. Modules are available for the same conversions performed by the standalone converters, and they enable you to mix different media types such as 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-FX, and Gigabit modules. Although enterprise-level chassis-based systems generally have modules that can only be used in a chassis, many midrange systems feature modules that can be used individually or in a chassis.


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In the same way that humans have a hard time understanding exponential functions in mathematics, we also find it difficult to anticipate what I term "exponential causality." Journalists and academics tend to focus on things that can be directly inferred. To catch up with everything else that will eventually matter, some may turn to science fiction.
Last fall, Michael Raynor advised us to read more science fiction, and around that time, I received A History of the Future in 100 Objects as a gift. Authored by Adrian Hon—a neuroscientist by training and the CEO of a gaming company by occupation—the book looks back from the year 2082 (which is within the likely lifespan of some living Millennials) and stitches together its narrative using 100 objects that represent the journey humanity took since the present day. This voyage into the future is challenging, amusing, and surprising, but it is rarely dystopian. Hon is an optimist who sees many future delights for us humans. (The book's website provides the stories for about 30 of the objects.)
Hon's history may generally be full of good news for humans, but it struck me as pretty challenging for business and government. He imagines the consequences of a world where humans—enabled with smart phones, sensors, 3D printing, and ubiquitous connectivity—figure out how to provide for themselves many of the services and products that are today the purview of business and government. As capitalism is reinvented, companies are disrupted left and right. Individuals with compelling ideas for a new t-shirt, mobile app, food product, movie, appliance—you name it—use crowdfunding to raise capital and then quickly displace whatever business previously served that consumer vertical. (Hon speaks from some experience here as he used Kickstarter to raise funding for his own book.)
Governments are also challenged, but they often just become less relevant. Some traditional government functions, such as overseeing international trade, become quite difficult to carry out when the world economy is comprised of trillions of microeconomic transactions. Many nations rethink their political systems by crowdsourcing new constitutions. And in one of the most intriguing ideas, countries with declining populations create charter cities to attract immigrants from around the world who essentially organize their own governing structures.
All is not bleak for status quo entities, however. Big changes often create new opportunities. Hon's History of the Future posits trends and dynamics that will lead to the emergence of new businesses and new government practices. Some of the future trends I find most interesting and most likely to give birth to new opportunities include:
1. The rise of Africa: Although Hon doesn't specifically call out Africa as a story, many of his narratives point to the importance of sub-Saharan Africa to the 21st century economy and to innovation. Low-cost manufacturing moves there, and most new consumers are also Africans joining the global middle class. Hon's projection rests on sound fundamentals, as African nations are likely to account for much of the growth in world population this century. Demographics, in my experience, is one of the most powerful predictors of future trends. And Africa's constraints already are prompting many innovations, such as in mobile technology, which are expanding to other parts of the world.
2. The cloud, cyber, and artificial intelligence: Hon's background in neuroscience allows him to project the emergence of sophisticated AI (finally!) that can monitor and predict many human activities. But these complex AI systems are also vulnerable to all manner of hacks and cyber-attacks. Because the world's information and its software live in a universal cloud, successful cyber intrusions have complex effects that are difficult to track down and eliminate. Protecting the world economy and indeed the global knowledge base from these types of malevolent attacks may be a growth area for decades to come. In fact, just as I was writing these words, Reuters reported that US companies are elevating the position of Chief Information Security Officer in response to recent destructive cyber incidents.
3. Riding the brain wave: By my count, advances in neuroscience are key to about 20 percent of the objects that make up Hon's future. This is to be expected, given Hon's academic background. He predicts that we will learn how to control our brain activity in real time using "neural laces" that will be developed first to treat brain diseases such as autism but that will eventually be adopted by the general population. Given the popularity today of digital methods to monitor or control one's physiology, I have no doubt that he's right about this prediction, if the science pans out. With better understanding of how their brains actually work and their individual cognitive styles, humans begin to team up as freelance "amplified teams" that assemble just the right mix of cognitive talent to deal with an organization's particular problem. Companies that can translate current advances in neuroscience into practical applications for the workplace stand a good chance of leading this cognitive revolution. For their parts, governments will need to understand how to protect diversity and freedom of opportunity in a cognitively-enhanced world.
Those are just some of the trends that resonated with me when I read A History of the Future in 100 Objects. I think Hon does a particularly good job of imagining how individual trends combine to produce second and third order effects. The future is not linear; it is complex, and from the perspective of us humans, it appears random. In the same way that humans have a hard time understanding exponential functions in mathematics, we also find it difficult to anticipate what I term "exponential causality." Many events have multiple consequences. Journalists and academics tend to focus only on those that can be directly inferred. To catch up with everything else that will eventually matter, some may turn to science fiction
Carmen Medina is a specialist leader in Deloitte Consulting LLP's Strategy & Operations practice. She joined Deloitte in January 2011 after retiring from an almost 32-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency. Since joining Deloitte, Medina has continued to support the intelligence community on issues such as social networking and future trends. She also works closely with GovLab, the Deloitte Federal practice's think tank and innovation center. Medina's areas of interest include developing rigor in analytics, navigating the emergence of new global norms in the 21st century, developing the transparent and collaborative future culture of work, and supporting diversity. She can be followed on Twitter @milouness. She maintains two blogs: Recoveringfed.com and Rebelsatwork.com.


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In the Arab world, poets and artists have parodied despots in several guises. Sometimes, the representation is anonymous, as it is with the street art that appeared almost overnight in cities that witnessed the Arab Spring uprisings, depicting dictators as buffoons or freaks. Other times, the subject matter is never explicitly named, as in Qabbani's poem "The Rooster," where the tyrannical figure is rather personified by a "sadistic" rooster who tortures and rules over the hens in a "fascist" fashion. "Dictator literature," a genre based on the portrayals of dictatorship, is not as prominent in the Middle East and North Africa as it is in Latin America (as exemplified by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and The General in his Labyrinth). However, there are works from the region addressing the tyrants of the day, from Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Najem to Iraqi poet Muzaffar Al-Nawwab, who paid the price for their candor in various ways.
But there is another side to dictator literature besides opposition and resistance: Dictators producing their own literature, works that are often a reflection of the nation they control and a national guide for shaping their subjects. For dictators, it is not enough to exercise an urge to control by writing or painting, constructing a malleable world wrought through an exacting vision. Often, they go the extra step and integrate their "artwork" into official, nation-building exercises that design molds for their subjects. While Hitler's and Franco's paintings, as well as Stalin's poetry, are well-known dictator trivia, the literary and artistic oeuvres of these Middle East and North African despots are less recognized.
Saddam's Romance Novels
It turns out the dictator who has murdered entire communities, imprisoned potential dissidents, and tortured countless Iraqis is also a romance novelist. Saddam has written four novels that span the genres of romance, biography, and war. Zabiba and the King is a romance novel symbolizing Iraq's relationship with global powers and a powerful, wise king (read: Saddam). Men and the City is a biographical novel tracing the rise of the Ba'ath party. The Fortified Castle provides further national allegories via romance. And, Get Out, Damned One is a novel of foreign invaders and Arab liberators. But creative control over tawdry romances and political metaphors was not enough: Saddam forced his books into Iraq's school curriculum, to teach all of the country's students to read the nation and the world as he did – essentially to train youth in his vision of national identification: paranoid, provincial, and misogynist. Whether true or not, his books were even hailed as bestsellers in Iraq. This nation-building exercise apparently runs in the family, since Hussein's uncle, as mayor of Baghdad, published in 1974 the treatise Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: The Persians, Jews, and Flies, and also succeeded in integrating it into the national curriculum by forcing schools to buy several copies each.
Khomeini's Mystic Poetry
The revered and detested religious figure, who publicly called for the execution of his countrymen, and most infamously, Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, was also a mystic poet. Khomeini is a prolific author of about 200 texts on religion, ethics, philosophy, politics, and government, some of which have shaped governance of the Islamic Republic. His body of work remains untranslated for the most part. But Khomeini's poetry, even though composed as early as his adolescence at school, remained largely unpublished until his death when a volume was collected and also translated into English. It is believed that another poetry collection was published post-revolution but was pulled by his supporters for fear it would detract from his role as a statesman. Wine of Love is a collection of irfani, or mystical poetry often produced by Shiite religious teachers. This poem, first published in English by the New Republic after Khomeini's death in 1989, uses standard symbols of mystic poetry to synthesize religious and romantic love – wine , love, beauty, beloved – which seem jarringly at odds with the conservative figure who rendered drinking punishable by lashes:
Open the door of the tavern and let us go there day and night,
For I am sick and tired of the mosque and seminary.
I have torn off the garb of asceticism and hypocrisy,
Putting on the cloak of the tavern-hunting shaykh and becoming aware.
The city preacher has so tormented me with his advice
That I have sought aid from the breath of the wine-drenched profligate.
Leave me alone to remember the idol-temple,
I who have been awakened by the hand of the tavern's idol.
Qaddafi's Surrealist Stories
If you got a headache or felt dizzy for any reason, even if that was when you were looking for a shirt for your son that cost one dinar at the state-owned markets, but had found it now for twenty dinars at a private shop, which made you hurry back to the state-owned market only to find that it had gone.
So you had to go back to the private shop, but only to find that the price had gone up to twenty-five dinars during your absence for five minutes – Hajji Hassan confirms that he has got a medicine herb for such giddiness, which he had extracted from the grass and numerous plants on the village common...
In the guise of praise, "Stop Fasting When You See the New Moon" mocks Genetal Schwarzkopf's declaring the beginning of Ramadan during the Gulf War (a decision usually left to Islamic scholars). Ultimately, Qaddafi's ramblings are so meandering that his attempts at sarcasm and satire fall way off the mark.
Saif al-Islam Qaddafi's Paintings
While Qaddafi's son is not as prominent as his father in the craft of tyranny over Libyans and their resources, he has also been charged with murder and torture on behalf of his father's regime. Qaddafi's literary praise of the desert in contrast to the decay of the city in Escape to Hell nearly comes to life in the paintings of his son whose oeuvre is essentially dedicated to scenic depictions of the desert or still life of the natural world. But it is not easy to pin down Saif's genre as his work ranges from the decorative kind you find in a Dubai dentist's office, to the surreal and garishly painted vintage finds that pop up in a garage sale.
In the same vein, paintings decorated with the iconography of his father perhaps may find value for those with quirky pop-cultural ironic leanings, though that is surely not Saif's intention. Some of his paintings, in fact, feature gruesome conflict mementos, a jarring aspect of his life in Libya, which he relates in earnest. In his painting "The Challenge", Saif shows his father's disembodied figure in the sky confronting "neo-crusaders", represented by three Christian figures. In The Art Newspaper, Saif is quoted as saying a small object glued to the canvas was part of a bomb, dropped by a US aircraft on his family home in Tripoli in 1986. He is also quoted as saying that the painting War is influenced by the Balkans in the late 1990s: "The painting portrayed a ship and the sea. Then a civil war broke out in Kosovo, which shattered the picture and its theme. The sea unleashed itself, anger fell from the sky, which came up against a stream of blood."
Gulf Princes and Poetry
The ultimate Arabic art form, poetry, sees a myriad of attempts from princes in Gulf countries, ranging from the most eloquent to the excruciatingly bad and infantile. There have been various failed attempts these days by many a Gulf royal, and, as authoritarian as they are, one of course cannot compare them to Saddam, Qaddafi, or Khomeini, as they are more representative of their subjects' interests and aspirations. The most prominent royal remains the late Prince Abdullah al-Faisal, whose poetry lives on through songs by celebrated artists such as AbdelHalim Hafez, Omm Kalthoum, and Mohammad Abdel Wahhab.


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With obscure settings and numbers, unbuffered modules, error correction on some types of RAM, and several different naming conventions, purchasing memory can seem like the most confusing part of building a computer (although as you can see below, installing it is a snap). Most of that info isn't crucial to know; just match the specs provided by your motherboard manufacturer. Here are some other tips to keep in mind.
Discover Balance
Avoid a common mistake: Buying the fastest graphics card and CPU without upgrading the memory. If the CPU and GPU have to wait for the memory, you've built an imbalanced systemand wasted your money.
Find Your Speed
A good rule of thumb to remember is that the speed of your RAM should be equal to or greater than the speed of your processor's front-side bus. RAM will always slow down to run with your system, but "overclocking" it, or making it run faster than it's intended to (to keep up with a much faster processor, for example), will lead to an unstable system.
Stats to Watch:
Manufacturer: Match the maker and type of your current RAM if you're adding extra memory.
Registered/unbuffered: Most PCs use unbuffered, but double-check before you buy.
Dual-channel: If your motherboard supports it, two matching slabs of memory can perform around 10 percent faster. This is, needless to say, a very good thing.
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A shareholders agreement supplements a company's constitution by providing greater detail regarding the company's activities and decision making. Typically, a shareholders agreement will contain a clause providing that, to the extent of any inconsistency with the company's constitution, the shareholders agreement prevails. However, the recent case of Cody v Live Board Holdings Limited1 (Cody) indicates that courts may read such clauses narrowly.
Shareholders agreements often cover a range of issues not comprehensively dealt with in a standard constitution, including the following:
- decision making of shareholders
- transferring shares
- management and appointment of directors.
As a company's constitution will also deal with these issues at a high level, it is common for a shareholders agreement to contain an inconsistency clause providing that it overrides the company's constitution in the event of a conflict. Cody demonstrates that these clauses may not be absolute as, so far as possible, courts will attempt to read a shareholders agreement together with the constitution, to ensure consistency.
The facts
In Cody, the board of Live Board Holdings resolved to proceed with a capital raising and issued preference shares to new shareholders and ordinary shares to existing shareholders.
An existing shareholder challenged the validity of the capital raising and associated share issue, following which the board sought a declaration from the NSW Supreme Court that it had the power and authority to issue the shares.
Issues in dispute
Live Board Holdings' constitution provided that the company's directors could cause the company to issue shares, including preference shares. However, if the share issue directly or indirectly varied the rights of a class of shares, then the approval of at least 75 percent of the shareholders of that class was required.
On the other hand, the shareholders agreement provided that certain matters, including the issue of shares or other securities of the company (or the grant of rights over any shares or other securities in the company), required approval of only a simple majority of shareholders.
The shareholders agreement included a standard inconsistency clause, as well as a clause requiring that, in the event of an inconsistency, the parties must also cause the constitution to be amended in order to remove the conflict.
Because of the inconsistency clause, the parties agreed that if there was an inconsistency between the constitution and the shareholders agreement, then the latter would prevail and a simple majority resolution would suffice to give the board authority to proceed with the share issue. The Court expressed some doubt that a shareholders agreement could control the constitution in this way, but proceeded on the basis that it could. Accordingly, the issue in dispute was whether there was an inconsistency between the constitution and the shareholders agreement.
The decision
Justice Brereton found that there was no inconsistency between the shareholders agreement and the constitution, despite the fact that the words of those clauses seemed to deal with the same subject matter. Justice Brereton did this by analysing the purpose of the clauses. Justice Brereton found that:
- the purpose of the relevant provision in the constitution was to the protect the interests of holders of the class of shares being varied (in this case, ordinary shareholders whose rights were varied by the issue of preference shares)
- the purpose of the relevant provision in the shareholders agreement was to reserve to the shareholders, rather than the directors, the power to issue shares.
Because these purposes were not inconsistent with each other, Brereton J did not consider there to be any conflict between them and held the requirements set down in both had to be complied with. This was despite both provisions by their written terms appearing to cover the same topic, namely the issuing of shares.
Accordingly, the share issue was invalid as it had not received approval from 75 percent of the shareholders of the relevant class, as required by the constitution.
Cody signals that courts may in some cases be reluctant to find an inconsistency between a shareholders agreement and a constitution, and instead make every effort to read the two documents together. Where a shareholders agreement contains an inconsistency clause, the likelihood of its application and its force will, in our view, be assisted by clearly articulating that specific topics are to be governed by the shareholders agreement, and identifying those specific provisions of the relevant constitution which do not apply.


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Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli (R), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Teo Chee Hean, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Home Affairs Minister, who is here to attend the second China-Singapore Forum on Social Governance, in Beijing, capital of China, July 28, 2014.[Xinhua/Zhang Duo]
Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli met with visiting Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean in Beijing on Monday.
Hailing the sound momentum of China-Singapore cooperation, Zhang said the two countries have expanded trade and investment, and facilitated large-scale cooperation projects such as Suzhou Industrial Park and Tianjin Eco-city.
China and Singapore have maintained close exchanges in areas of social governance, technological innovation and personnel training, he said.
Next year marks the 25th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties. Zhang called for joint efforts to strengthen cooperation and strategic trust.
Teo Chee Hean, also Singaporean minister for national security and home affairs, said his country hopes to step up cooperation with China on the basis of mutual respect and trust.
Teo Chee Hean is in Beijing to attend the second China-Singapore Forum on Social Governance held earlier on Monday.