Did you get to attend the "Ask the Developers Session"?
Did you miss a
question or response?
Below are my notes from the session.
(Disclaimer, Disclaimer: These are not "official" responses, just what
I was able to get out of the conference session. )
PreSession Notes:
This is one of must see sessions at Lotusphere. It is both fun and
educational. All the developers across the Lotus Platform gather on
stage for one last group question and answer session. The crowd are
allowed to ask about any issue old or new and basically able to rant
where necessary when issues get old. There are a few guidelines and
the majority of past attendees will enforce them when broken with a
chorus of Boos. The big no-no is multiple questions and even
multi-part questions. However, provided that there is time any one
could ask additional questions once they are at the back of the line.
Session Notes:
Being a fast paced session, with topics covering a wide range of areas,
some way beyond my area of expertise, below I caught what I was able to
gather from the questions and answers, or at least as best as I could
understand them. On rare occassions there were some language
difficulties making the issue even more complex than it may have been.
Note on some very rare exceptions, I was able to catch the name of the
questioner or the intended recipient of the answer, but do not recall
most and have not indicated them in the vast majority of issues.
First off we learned that long-time host / MC of Ask the Developers,
Kevin Cavanaugh, was stepping down from the role as he has changed his
position. In his place in the new VP for developers, Bruce.
Item 1:
Actually came from Kevin Cavanaugh, who was violating the rule of
IBMers not allowed to ask questions and received the crowd boo
(intentionally planned of course), if the LSX toolkits has been fixed?
This item was directed Bob Balaban who pretended to have a prepared
speech from IBM legal. With a bunch of fake legalease / disclaimers,
he mentioned that it had been fixed and is planned to ship in 8.5
release or sooner.
Item 2:
Side bar components question, will they be able to honor location
documents to detect online status. Quick answer is yes. Questioner
insisted that it did not properly address proxy server? IBM said it
does/should and they are taking offline.
Item 3:
Next question, on IDEAMJAM. Is IBM paying attention and are the items
being reviewed. Quick answer: they are being followed. Bruce answered
initially then had Math Beth reassert that they are excited about the
process and looking to work with Bruce to pull the items into IBM's
issue process. The light-hearted response, I believe from Bob Balaban,
perhaps, was that he was upset because it was in direct competition
with his blog.
Item 4:
I can not recal the exact question, however part of the response was a
description of ongoing improvements being made "...we have been engaged
in 8.5 in 8 months, directory space, security space with major
overhauls of (the code) that are on the level of release 6 changes and
possibly as significant as the release 5 changes.
Item 5:
Q: Without plugins or quickr, can you make it so that with a simple
"file save" command, you can store an attachment to a notes database?
A: They are working on this to put into Notes database, no timetable
given.
Item 6:
Q: Will some Domino Server source be opened to some business partners,
so that they would be better able to support? A: There are
"opportunities" to open some of this. No promises yet, but working on.
Item 7:
Q: Can a company put in force a home page without homepage.nsf, within
the Notes 8 client? A: Homepage policy issue they are somewhat aware
of this, but will have to take it back and look at a bit closer.
Item 8:
Q: Sametime admin question. Sametime administration s**ks? A: They
have revamped the client and server sides, but are only beginning to
lay the groundwork for admin, so would appear that there are no
immediate goals to achieve this.
Item 9:
Q: Notes 8 basic client issue. Related to slower pc's issue, what is
the future of the basic client, as for matching look and feel as
standard? A: They plan to keep the basic until they hear that they do
not need it. Short term, it will be there for a while, but to not to
expect much focus given to it.
Item 10:
Q: Question related to marketing the knowledge of getting started with
IBM notes. A: Authors and publishers have been contacted, or in the
process of contacting, to renew the books for Notes 8 and beyond. The
books from "Dummies" are a recent target as they have a larger
worldwide audience so will be focusing on this. Project "Cutie" is
developed over Wiki...is an internal project being started for some
notes documentation. It is this faster return on content, to match the
speed of the product releases, that is being investigated for
alternative means than Red Books.
Item 11:
Q: Transaction logging question...size question? The specific question
was not specific enough to be addressed, something to do with restore
and 64MB transaction and locks? (Note, I did not understand the nature
of the issue and there was somewhat of a language issue) However a
response was given as; A: The cost of tranaction logging is being
reduced by 50% and being target for 8.5, so that it can be used more.
Item 10B:
A: A follow up response to the previous question (item 10). No more
redbooks? "Boo!! " from the crowd.. Need more dynamic content. Product
comes out so fast that the red books get obsoleted by the time the
products turn over. Redbooks don't move fast enough (aren't produced
quickly), but the content is very valuable and needs to get out in a
more "modern" way (hint... Wikis) "Need agile method of documentation
practices"
Item 12:
Q: Sametime client question about being ported to Eclipse? A: Taking the requirements back to product management.
Item 13:
Q: Questions on migrating users from Exchange to Notes (crowd cheered)
and specific question for calendaring that don't require third party
tools. A: Nothing currently planned, taking offline, to get better
specific requirements for approaches.
Item 14:
Q: Extended products DB2 / WAS server issues...questions..Make the
extension products work on the Notes/ Domino platform? A: (Note the
response seemed complex with several tangents on the topic) An
integration issue. There are no current plans to do this...How do we
package the products into a simple to install... Not every in the
future will be written into the Domino platform, even though every one
in the room would want it to be that way. They are working on methods
to make installations and functions it just as easy as Domino within
the other products.
Item 15:
Q: Integration quickplace/quickr and sametime, question? A: Planning
on updates to integrating..coming end of year / beginning next.
Item 16:
Q: Printing questions (boo!!! from the crowd . "This is Notes why
would you want to print...??" ... any future plans for attachment to
print from a right click or menu? A: Added in 8.01 to contribute to
right click and asked the user to create it...Open the attachment in
view and send to printer. A new ini variable was created so that a
double click would always open the attachment (instead of presednt the
properties/info box)...I believe they mentioned it as:
attachment_default_option =1. Bruce thought the respondent was some
sort of "Code Jedi" for having memorized the variable, but it was more
of simply having been asked the same question that afternoon.
Item 17:
Q: Preserve the ability to run a full 8 client on thumb drive. A:....I missed this response.
Item 18:
Q: Sametimeunyte question, is Notes planning on integrating into the
mail/calendar template. A: In 8.01, create a meeting and this is
already available...quickly answered didn't quite get all of the
details, appeared to have been a non-issue.
Item 19:
Q: Websphere portal question, which I wasnot able to follow. A:
...install issue answer had something to do with not having to do what
the questioner provided as the problem.
Item 20:
Q: On Lotus Foundations, Not able to use sametime or quickr on same
box? A: Foundations is not official yet. Market decisions have not
been finalized as to which options to use.
Item 21:
Q: Notes Client issue. Contacts and Locations sync'ed? A: Notes8
able to sync into mail file. AA(?) can manage contacts on black
berry. hhhmm not sure I followed.
Item 22:
Q: Quickr / Sametime Management...Would they be able to merge the
admin clients together? A: Working to get these all towards Eclipse
which would then make it easier to accomplish, but not there yet.
Item 23:
Q: Layers in Notes Client, make them into a fully fledged ui
component, so to be able to breakout of frames. A: No immediate plans
to work on this, but with follow up will address.
Item 24:
Q: With the implementation of XPages in domino 8.5, will there be any
implementation of XPages in Notes Client? A: Notes is currently
committed to making it into an awesome web developement environment
first. Then "as soon as Bruce lets them" (a response that started to
becom repeated over and again)..."woohoo!! from crowd", the IBM
developers want to work on this. |
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