November 2020 Virtual Hackathon Agenda

Agenda

Format: 2 session, 1:20h each with a 20 minute break in-between.

Goals

• Finalise a release candidate for BCF 2.2 XML and API standard(s) (no more new features enter BCF 2.2)
• Finalise a release candidate for the Foundation 1.0 standard (no more new features enter Foundation 1.0)

Day 1:

Session 1

• Discuss and Finalise Agenda
• Reiterate the vision, agree about the foundation API
• Agree on "break out groups"
• Divide outstanding topics to the groups

Session 2

• Break out to groups to complete reviewing all outstanding issues and pull requests in BCF XML and BCF API repositories
• Debrief and confirm Day 2 Agenda (10:45 CET)

Day 2

Session 1:

• Recap output from Day 1/Session 2 and discuss any outstanding topics
• Present plans for delivery of documents API in H1 CY 2021 (Yoram)
• Continue breakout room activity

Session 2:

• (Veni) Enhance 2D markup and annotation to support features such as measurements and pins. (Discussed and decided to defer to version 2.3)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-API/pull/240 (discussed)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-API/issues/238 and also https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-API/issues/189 (discussed)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-API/issues/239 (discussed)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-API/issues/237 (discussed, not resolved)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/shared-common-API/issues/7 (discussed)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/shared-common-API/issues/10 (discussed)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/shared-common-API/issues/2 (discussed)

• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-XML/issues/232 (discussed)

• Debrief and confirm Day 2 Agenda (10:45 CET)

Day 3:

Session 1:

• John Egan: Introduction to open information containers
• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-API/issues/245 (discussed)
• https://github.com/buildingSMART/shared-common-API/issues/8 (discussed)
• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-XML/pull/238 (discussed)
• https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-API/issues/237 (discussed, not resolved)
• Discussed adding a start-date property - signifying when the work on the topic was started. (discussed, not resolved)

Discussion Notes

• There are many breaking changes - we should change the release from 2.2 to 3.0
• Topic start-date will be handled by the "additional properties" feature in a future version

Session 2:

• (20 min) final issue discussion and resolution
• Discuss how to implement, test and finalise the release (10am)
• Review breakout room activity