Minutes of Dakar Release Schedule Meeting, 07 Jan 2006

Logistics and Participants

• Date: Saturday, 07 Jan 2005 18:00 GMT
• IRC Channel: #twiki_dakar
• Participants (IRC nick): ArthurClemens (ArthurClemens), CrawfordCurrie (CDot), KennethLavrsen (Lavr), MartinCleaver (MartinCleaver), MichaelDaum (MichaelDaum), PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny), SamHasler (SamHasler), SteffenPoulsen (SteffenPoulsen), SvenDowideit (SvenDowideit), WillNorris (wbniv)

Agenda

• Review last meeting minutes (points and action items)
• Quick review of bug items marked as urgent and required
• Other items that need to happen for release
• Discuss tentative release date
• Discuss parking lot items

Point 1: Dakar Doc Update

• Peter said down to 11 docs from 49 topics in last meeting
• Peter estimates one more week of work for Lynnwood and Peter
• Contentious discussion if credit should be added to TWikiContributors list, compromise was reached to leave it without, and to add the items done in Dakar to TWikiHistory

Point 2: Ship WYSIWYG Editor With Dakar

• No change from previous agreement to ship the Plugin, label it as Alpha or technology preview, and disable the Plugin by default

Point 3: ClassicSkin Issues

• All resolved except for login/logout

Point 4: Translations

• French translation added

Point 5: Rest Interface

• Sven finished and documented it

Point 6: Warning for Deprecated API Calls

• Good solution found for Bugs:Item1025

Point 7: Improve CSS Handling in PatternSkin

• ModernizePatternSkin and Bugs:Item959 in work

Release Schedule

• Too early to decide, deferred to next meeting

Miscellaneous

• Decided to have weekly meeting on Mondays, same time
  • Next on 2006/01/16 20:00 GMT - http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdate has current GMT

Action Items

• All:
  • Make proposal to change TWikiReleaseNamingConvention by next meeting
• Unassigned:
  • need to add translations credits to DakarReleaseNotes
    • DONE see Item1348 CC
  • move geturl to contrib for edin*
    • DONE added Item1349 CC
• Arthur:
  • Language dropdown: Make it a PatternSkinCustomization? item (optional, does not hold up release)
  • Review if WEBBGCOLOR can be shown better in PatternSkin
    • DONE - as title bar in WebLeftBar
  • Investigate Bugs:Item1233 - No horizontal scrollbar to view content (with Michael)
    • DONE - with horizontal scrollbar for whole page
• Sven:
  • In Plugins web, ssk all plugin/addon devs to remove their bin scripts and impl a rest interface instead
• Peter:
  • Document geturl, but as deprecated
    • DONE - in TWikiScripts, and moved to twiki/tools directory
• Steffen:
  • Check-in Bugs:Item1297 - "Form-based editing of existing preferences" in TWikiPreferences? expands variables - Done, SP
  • There's a bit of doc in EmptyPlugin that needs a fix Done, SP
• Michael:
  • Investigate Bugs:Item1233 - No horizontal scrollbar to view content (with Arthur)
    • DONE - with horizontal scrollbar for whole page

Action items of previous meeting:

• Peter
  • Create Codev topic to list top features to list in press release
    • DONE - See DakarRelease#MajorEnhancements
  • Upgrade twiki.org to Dakar by year end
    • PENDING - allocating time to bugs and docs
  • Give feedback on ModernizePatternSkin, so a final header can be created
    • DONE - See ModernizePatternSkin
• Peter, Lynnwood
  • Update the last 49 documentation topics
    • IN WORK - down to 11
• Arthur
  • Design final header based on feedback on ModernizePatternSkin
    • IN WORK
  • Update classic skin to include a login and logout button
    • PENDING
• Antonio
  • go for a final check on templates for misused i18n constucts, after what we'll be on string freeze (nobody touches strings in templates)
    • DONE
  • flag translators by e-mail so they can complete their translations
    • DONE
• All
  • Make a top 10 list of Dakar features in DakarRelease - please work on DakarRelease#MajorEnhancements list
    • DONE
  • Help find tech writer
    • PENDING
  • Attract translators
    • STATUS?
  • Think about ways to get attention of writers and coders
    • STATUS?

IRC Log

• Dakar-minutes2006x01x07.txt: IRC log of Dakar Release Meeting 2006/01/07

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-- PeterThoeny - 07 Jan 2006

Discussions

Thanks all for attending at impossible times and hanging in there for such a long time!

Please help in completing the minutes.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Jan 2006

Unfornatelly I could not attend to the meeting, since I went in a trip just before Peter's mail. Next time I'll be there.

-- AntonioTerceiro - 10 Jan 2006