Meeting agenda/minutes

Apologies

Attending and minuting

• Attending: Jits Steve Rishi Shoaib
• Minuting: Rishi

Actions from previous meeting

• use GEF with a basic model to demonstrate mockup requirements. ONGOING
• take a look at database query builders. ONGOIGN
• allow the user to connect nodes together - via Nodules (primary). Add a iterator visualisation (secondary). ONGOING
• Find Eclipse RCP + GEF book - DONE
• Consider user scenarios - ONGOING
• Ask Steve about direct manipulation - DONE

Discussions

Shoaib: CI Shell, VBrowser - candidates for integration - need to take them into account when making technology decisions.
Jits: E4 and what it brings - backwards compatibility - plugging into existing projects
Jits: what's the scope for including 3rd party libraries?
Shoaib: things to consider - Deployment, Integration, Building. Responsible re-use.
Jits: as a parallel activity - need to construct the conceptual model that drives the design
Shoaib: difference between the design & conceptual model
Steve: thing to consider in the back of your minds is publications - something to write about - start with a comparison - identify the problems with other workbenches across various platforms - find the problem - propose a hypothesis - e.g. Iteration strategy - equivalence
Shoaib: noticed that when people use taverna they stop and think for long durations - what's going on in their head.
Steve: find issues of other workbench systems - say here's our solution - collections, explicit data input, iteration etc..

New actions

• start initial conceptual model - Jits
• use GEF with a basic model to demonstrate mockup requirements.
• take a look at database query builders.
• allow the user to connect nodes together - via Nodules (primary). Add a iterator visualisation (secondary).
• Consider user scenarios - ONGOING

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