2020-10-05 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes

alvin-c-shih commented 3 years ago

Date

Monday, October 10, 2020 - 10am EST / 3pm BST

// First Monday of every month

Attendees

Fullname	Affiliation	GitHub Username
Aitana Myohl	FINOS	@aitana16
Alvin Shih	Morgan Stanley	@alvin-c-shih
Rob Underwood	FINOS	@brooklynrob
Aaron Davies	Morgan Stanley	@adavies42
Peter Gyorok	Morgan Stanley	@gyorokpeter
Jonny Press	AquaQ Analytics	@jonnypress

Minutes

(5 min) Convene, roll call, welcome new people.
(5 min) Approve previous meeting minutes.
- Approved by acclamation.
(5 min) Kdb Studio
- New features from @gyorokpeter :
  - Excel export now results in a file that can be opened on Windows 10.
    - https://github.com/finos/kdb-studio/pull/1
  - Moving servers between folders.
    - https://github.com/finos/kdb-studio/pull/5
- Features in the pipeline.
  - Global font size change.
    - https://github.com/finos/kdb-studio/issues/7
(15 min) Engaging Java developers from other FINOS projects to help with Kdb Studio?
- Font size change feature a bit non-obvious to a kdb person who deals mostly with q and some C++ .
- @brooklynrob suggested tags on issues like: :good first issue: :help wanted: :java:
- FINOS doesn't maintain developer profiles at the moment.
- Emailing the lists of other projects seems heavy-handed.
- Some kind of "job jar" for intrepid developers?
(5 min) Offering a precompiled Kdb Studio?
- CI / CD seems to be working but not generating a JARfile.
- Will be seeking some cycles from @maoo.
(15 min) Contributing back to upstream Kdb Studio?
- @brooklynrob shared some rules of etiquitte:
  - Some maintainers don't like "surprise" Pull Requests.
  - PR should be atomic in the feature.
  - Better to create an issue against the upstream project and then associate the PR with that.
    - Better still to create the issue before work begins to avoid duplicated effort.
    - Template for such an issue would include Title, Rationale, Planned Approach, ETA, link to issue on our repo.
- Questions:
  - Procedure to cherry pick commits to create a new PR?
  - Once we're contributing changes to a non-FINOS projects, does the FINOS legal structure still hold, or the developer must register that separately as an "Outside Business Interest"?
  - @brooklynrob will check on his side, and @gyorokpeter will ask around internally.
(2 min) qclone.
- See if anyone had troubles running it.
  - Morgan Stanley people already familiar with it.
  - No questions otherwise.
(2 min) kdb+ on the Cloud.
- Any experiences to share?
  - Mostly internal cloud experimentation at the moment.
(2 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn.