Minutes of Dakar Release Schedule Meeting, 16 Jan 2006
Logistics and Participants
- Date: Monday, 16 Jan 2005 20:00 GMT
- IRC Channel:
#twiki_dakar
- Participants (IRC nick): AntonioTerceiro (terceiro), CrawfordCurrie (CDot), KennethLavrsen (Lavr), MartinCleaver (MartinCleaver), PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny), SamHasler (SamHasler), SteffenPoulsen (SteffenPoulsen), SvenDowideit (SvenDowideit), WillNorris (wbniv)
- New participants today: AndreUlrich (AndreU), JasonHill (qbfreak), JoanTouzet (Wohali), RafaelAlvarez (Soronthar)
- We missed: ArthurClemens (ArthurClemens), MichaelDaum (MichaelDaum)
- Facilitated by LynnwoodBrown and notes taken by SteffenPoulsen
Agenda
- Review last meeting minutes (points and action items)
- Quick review of bug items marked as urgent and required
- Release naming convention
- Other items that need to happen for release
- Discuss release date
- Discuss parking lot items
Point 1: Dakar Doc Update
- Peter has 8 docs to go; most should be straightforward, eta about one week
Point 2: Ship WYSIWYG Editor With Dakar
- No ETA yet, holding on to beta / tech preview
- Feels stable, many improvements since last meeting
Point 3: ClassicSkin Issues
- All resolved except for login/logout (Bugs:Item736)
- Design issue more than implementation issue
- Steffen will try to place login functionality
Point 4: Translations
- String freeze currently lifted, waiting for
- documentation work to finish
- last template updates (language dropdown)
- last bug fixes
- String freeze planned for Friday, 20 Jan 2006.
Point 7: Improve CSS Handling in PatternSkin
- ModernizePatternSkin and Bugs:Item959 in work
- Action item for Arthur, not showstopper
- We need to sure there's no copyright issues with the latest bg image.
- : It turns out image is contributed by Arthurs wife (thanks!)
- BTW, the header Photoshop file is in pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/TWiki_header.psd. -- AC
- Votes 4 to 3 for using the latest image (subject to ©)
- Doubts on whether the image is for twiki.org or for Dakar
- A modern look that attracts people is important, hence urgent to get into dakar, Peter / Arthur will re-grade item to urgent.
Point 8: Create new DefaultSkin
- Disagreement is whether defaultskin should be "official" / have it's own skin topic, or just live as "default templates".
- Peter lets Crawford have it his way in favor of progress
Point 9: Item1395 - Remove MAKETEXT from NewUserTemplate
- Intention is good, but needs a bit more of fidling.
- Treated as new Bugs:Item1422 - NOP{} cannot contain variables with parameters
Point 10: Item1322 - TWiki.org doc merge: TWikiHistory needs Dakar history
- Re-opened bug, agreement from last meeting to update TWikiHistory.
- Action item for PeterThoeny, straight forward issue.
Point 11: Item1368 - Rename HEADERART to WEBHEADERIMAGE
- Between Arthur and wbniv, raised to urgent.
- RESOLVED: the name
WEBHEADERART
- The background color variable is
WEBHEADERBGCOLOR
-- AC
Release naming convention
- See TWikiReleaseNamingConvention
- Far more important to name the package consistently with OSS standards than it is to have it named the same as the release topic
- Strong leaning against Svens proposal, consensus:
- TWiki-4.0.0-beta6.zip
- TWikiRelease04x00x00beta6
Other items that need to happen for release
- Strategy for plugins - Cairo-Dakar compatibility / separation
- Release party was suggested, Peter would like to organize a release party in the Silicon Valley
- "it would be cool if people in europe organize one, people in apac one, and people in south america one :-)"
- target: 01 Feb 2006 for DakarReleaseParty at WikiWednesdays ( make Dakar releasable by then)
- Decide on plan for Bugs web, supporting various releases of code(?)
Release Schedule
- Build
- beta6 now
- RC1 after next meeting, if no show-stoppers
- We will try to settle on an intended release date at next meeting if there's a good feeling about RC1
Miscellaneous
- Next meeting next Mondays, same time
Action Items:
- Arthur:
- Language dropdown: Make it a PatternSkinCustomization item (optional, does not hold up release)
- Design final header based on feedback on ModernizePatternSkin
- Improve CSS Handling in PatternSkin (see above)
- Crawford:
- Close Develop:Bugs.Item1336.
- Build & upload beta6
- Sven:
- In Plugins web, ssk all plugin/addon devs to remove their bin scripts and impl a rest interface instead
- Peter
- Upgrade twiki.org to Dakar by year end
- PENDING - allocating time to bugs and docs
- Raise artwork item to urgent
- Add Dakar to TWikiHistory
- Peter, Lynnwood
- Update the last documentation topics
- Antonio
- Announce new string freeze
- DONE - announced for this Friday, 2006-01-20
- Steffen:
- Put login / logout in classic skin
- Will:
- Decide if Bugs:Item1393 is a blocker
- yes it is, so the task is to apply/develop the patch
- Separate 3 overlapping threads in Bugs:Item1368, try to close them. ETA: Friday.
- rename
HEADERART
to WEBHEADERART
- fix
WIKILOGO
use/abuse
- All
- Help find tech writer
- Attract translators
- Think about ways to get attention of writers and coders
IRC Log
Back to: DakarRelease
Comments / Feedback
Sadly I've missed the meeting (update: for the most part) due to a last minute client meeting in Amsterdam.
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ArthurClemens - 16 Jan 2006
I've attached the
irc log for those who missed the meeting and want the raw, uncut experience.
Thanks to
SteffenPoulsen for taking the real-time notes here. I for one found it extremely useful during the meeting! Others feel free to add corrections and clarifications.
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LynnwoodBrown - 17 Jan 2006