2019-8-22 Meeting Notes

Meeting minutes status: Draft (pending approval)

Attendees

Name	Organization	githubID
Nicholas Kolba	OpenFin
prerit
Jonathan Teper	JP Morgan
Malcolm Chedzoy
Mark Valeiras	ChartIQ
Riko Eksteen	Adaptive	rikoe
Rob Schmidt	ChartIQ
Tosha Ellison	FINOS	toshaellison
Vinod Mehta	Factset	vmehtafds
Johan Sandersson	Factset	donbasuno
Phil Broadbent	Openfin
Sanjay Nagpal

Goals

Discussion items

group

Time	Item	Who	Notes
5 min	roll call - get started	group
5 min	WG Chair changes	Nicholas Kolba	Riko Eksteen will be the new WG Chair
10 min	Channels API	group	Review merged PR Outstanding documentation work Riko Eksteen to create a github issue to call for volunteers to create a "channels" subfolder
10 min	Issue #18	group, Johan Sandersson	https://github.com/FDC3/FDC3/issues/18 Based on an FDC3 use case - there might be a need for an FDC3 uri (eg fdc3://) so that any application on the desktop could send context to FDC3 without requiring plugins, etc. technical challenges: implementing it as a standard is quite tricky because the feature is based on a custom protocol something more feasible would be to standardize everything that comes after the protocol It was agreed to further discuss this issue offline
10 min	Issue #97	group	https://github.com/FDC3/FDC3/issues/97 API typescript should only define interfaces - not classes. This style should be enforced in standards reviews (and retroactively) and documented in the API docs and contribution guide. it would be very useful to have a brief style guide for developing that explains these distinctions clear understanding of criteria write up a clear explanation of the semantics
10 min	npm packages for API	group	unification of types with App Directory schema and context schema identify actions and owners Issue #20: align intent metadata with intents repository. If you look at the source definitions at the intents WG and the AppD WG, there's two different definitions with different properties
10 min	adding more comprehensive API usage samples	group	identify actions and owners Nicholas Kolba, Malcolm Chedzoy & Mark Valeiras to help out with these issues Riko Eksteen to convene an informal sub-committee to make some progress towards a PR and then bring that back to the API WG
10 min	FDC3 API for other languages (e.g. .NET)	group	identify actions and owners Agreement to post a call for .NET developers to the wider FINOS Community raise help wanted issue on github to collect samples. just focus on website for now
20 min <	AOB	group	Option to have an off-channel application

Action items

Riko Eksteen to create a GitHub issue to call for volunteers to create a "Channels" subfolder for API documentation
GitHub Issue #97: Clear definition of interface vs. class semantics for TypeScript
Riko Eksteen to convene an informal sub-committee to work on an API usage samples PR (made up of Nicholas Kolba, Malcolm Chedzoy and Mark Valeiras)
Post a call for .NET developers to wider FINOS community to help out with FDC3 .NET API
Vinod Mehta to open an issue on FDC3 GitHub regarding his requirement for having an "off-channel" application