2019-8-22 Meeting Notes

Rob Schmidt

5 min

• Riko Eksteen will be the new WG Chair 

• Review merged PR
• Outstanding documentation work
  • Riko Eksteen to create a github issue to call for volunteers to create a "channels" subfolder

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

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 

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

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

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

• Option to have an off-channel application