2018-09-05 kdb+ WG Minutes

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Date/Time

Date: 2018.9.5

Time: 11am ET

WebEx Used: https://finos.webex.com/join/programs

Meeting Recorded? Yes, partially (latter half)

Attendees

NameOrganisation

Alvin Shih (Alvin Shih

Morgan Stanley

Jason Foster-Bey JPMC
FINOS
Peter GyorokMorgan Stanley

Outstanding Action Items

Tasks Identified and Assigned

  • Group to generally reach out to other firms using Kx/Kdb about participating in the working group
    • Reach out to Brian Runk at DB re participation in this WG - Alvin Shih  
    • Reach out to Igor at RBC re participation in this WG - @Jason Foster-Bey  
  • Reach out to Kx/Kdb about its involvement in the WG going forward - Rob Underwood (Deactivated)  
    • Asking about license for developers
  • Reach out to Aaron Williamson of FINOS regarding guidance on threshold for requiring CCLAs - Rob Underwood (Deactivated)  
  • (Suggested from Rob U after meeting): Establish how and where you want to share material (e.g., do you want to use Github to check-in, say, sample test cases) - Alvin Shih
  • Share sample tests, configurations, in part to start to create guidelines for naming (on-going task as working group stands up)

Task Report from Last Meeting

Task report

Looking good, no incomplete tasks.


Decisions 

Decisions Pending

  • Decision - How to make use of the Kx/Kdb naming space in a consistent way across firms

Decisions Made



Agenda

TimeItemWhoNotes from the Meeting
5 minConvene & roll call

All

Several expected participants were missing; Alvin was able to get a hold of Jason Foster-Be=
5 min

Spreading the word about the WG

All



Rob also mentioned that intention of FINOS to do a call for contribution 

20 minWhat should be the initial focus of this working group?All

What are other priorities?

  • Sharing best practices on
    • Setting up how the environment set up
    • How modiles 

What are the domains? What are the tools we want so hare?

  • Everyone has the need to test but most tools are for Java, Python, etc. such as Jenkins
  • Kdb has Q Unit
  • How do we integrate with those tools?
  • Or are those other tools that can be taken to management, and that meet respective firm standards?
  • Is there a way to integrate with more standard tools OR, if we need to build stuff that is more Q specific, is there stuff we can do together and/or identify tools that work?
  • Morgan Stanley uses Jenkins as context
  • Question asked about ODP – Rob explained that that a testing framework is on ODP roadmap
5 minWG Housekeeping Discussion

Rob U reminded WG that

  • the primary form of communications outside of working groups should the google group mailing list
    • use the google group to do a reminders about upcoming meeting
  • consistent with the foundation's antitrust policy agenda should be developed and shared (e.g., in the meeting reminder) ahead of the meeting itself

5 minAOB & adjourn



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