Net Meeting 80

Review Status of the Action List

See Net Meeting Actions

• 41-1 no progress but PGL will try to have a go at this over the summer
• 59-1 Some progress on this one. Agreed to close this action, and add a new action from today for JF to hold an email/skype discussion about revising the goals for 2020, and the specifics of the semantics, methods&apps and tools pages.
• 75-2 Is carried forward, JC is in dicussion with MV about this.
• 76-2 Is now closed, after the 12th Overture workshop.
• 79-1 Is now closed.
• 79-2 Is carried forward, though it was noted that there may be assistance from Aarhus with testing the UI.

Overture Language Board Status

The minutes of the last LB meeting can be found here: minutes

The LB agreed to remove periodic and sporadic threads from VDM++, though there is some discussion still about object patterns and the semantics of object references being used in a functional context. We also hope that Tomohiro Oda will be able to sit in on LB meetings as an expert and to help the LB liase with Japan.

Status of VDMTools Development

State is the same as the previous meeting.

Status of the Overture Components

VDMJ

Just a few small bug fixed this period:

2014-07-06 Map patterns not working with munion
2014-07-05 Correct type check of undefined values
2014-07-02 Correct type check error with record field values
2014-06-23 Fix type checker to report errors for private abstract fn/ops
2014-06-23 Fix for maplet patterns and possible type matching

Release Planning

Version 2.1.0 released

Version 2.1.0 was released 12 June, with small bugfixes (grab it at GitHub). The major features justifying the shift to a 2.1.x version number are the “official” release of PeterJ’s codegen and Luís and Nick’s AST-based POG.

Release Process

There’s been no progress on the Release Process document since the workshop, but that will be revisited when version 2.1.2 is released. The plan is still to have Kenneth actually do the release, with Joey watching over his shoulder.

Community Development

Overture Traffic

See June download stats

There was an enormous (~10,000) download spike in June from Pakistan. I’ve no idea what that’s about, but it rather skews our statistics!

Wiki Migrations

The dev wiki has moved entirely to Gihub. See Overture Developer Support.

We are considering migration of the core wiki at https://github.com/overturetool/overturetool.github.io/issues/4

Featured Examples

The following models have been chosen for featured example status:

1. Stack // rewritten to flat SL
2. Dining
3. TelephoneSL // implicit style
4. buffers2 // Combinatorial Testing (LUHN was the original choice but it crashes CT)
5. POP3 // Runners-up: Worldcup, VFS, ConwayGameLife
6. CashDispenser

The MSAW series was also considered as the final example. It can take the place of CashDispenser.

Strategic Research Agenda

Not discussed this time.

Publications Status and Plans

The publication list was reviewed. See Planned Publications.

Any Other Business

JF: “We had some great connections made at INCOSE last week for the COMPASS work. I have asked for some connections to Japanese people possibly interested in SoS modelling”. Contact was from Keio University. Also, “[There] is a person frome a jet manufacturer interested in unmanned vehicles and in particular the use of SysML to manage problems with concurrent development - I thought there was an interest in co-modelling but with this person SysML is the place to start, rather than VDM/20-sim.” Contact is from Gulfstream. Also, “I was approached after the COMPASS talk by Gael Blondelle, Director of European Eco-System Development at the Eclipse Foundation. I thought at first he wanted the software, but he wants the COMPASS (and I think by extension Overture) tools community to get involved in one of his things”. JF will send email to introduce Gael to the Overture team.