Minutes of Edinburgh Release Meeting, 20 Feb 2006

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Monday, 20 Feb 2005 21:00 GMT
• IRC Channel: #twiki_edinburgh
• Participants: ArthurClemens (ArthurClemens), CrawfordCurrie (CDot), KennethLavrsen (Lavr), LynnwoodBrown (Lynwood), MeredithLesly (bitca), MichaelDaum (MichaelDaum), PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny), RafaelAlvarez (Soronthar), SteffenPoulsen (SteffenPoulsen), SvenDowideit (SvenDowideit), WillNorris (wbniv)
• Facilitated by LynnwoodBrown and notes taken by SteffenPoulsen
• FIXME EdinburghMinutes2006x02x20.txt: Edinburgh Meeting Minutes 2006-02-20

Agenda

• TWiki 4.0.2 release (TWikiRelease04x00x02)
  • In or out: new pattern skin layout (Bugs:Item1672)
• Release focus of EdinburghRelease
• Tinderbox re-animation

TWiki 4.0.2 release

• Desired outcome: Remaining tasks and release timing of TWikiRelease04x00x02
• Bug status: Requirement: 5, Urgent: 5, Normal: 35, Low: 16
• Problem at the moment is that more bugs are opened than closed. Because people think Edinburgh more than getting Dakar stable.
• It is good to have as many "normal" items fixed as possible.
• Discussion on marking items
  • Try to mark as 4.0.2 requirement up front, not at fix time

Short summary on which bugs are 4.0.2 crucial and which are targeted at Edinburgh:

The only items that will be merged over for 4.0.2 are the ticked items - and even then, only the ones that merge relativly cleanly.

Timeline, 4.0.2

"When it's done, it's done" vs. "If there isn't a deadline, the work will fill the remaining space and time continuum".

Decided on a two week timeframe, allowing for the new div-based PatternSkin to finish and stabilize.

Release focus of Edinburgh Release

• Desired outcome: Agree on tentative release focus
• Brainstorm on EdinburghRelease#Release_Focus
• Individually desired items listed in IRC log
• Pretty good brainstorm listed once again in IRC, need strategy for consolidating / finding concensus .. need further discussion and test for agreement.

Here's a summary of the brainstorm with some effort to group into areas:

• Strengthen TWiki as an application platform
  • CMS
  • modularity
  • Relax wikiword syntax
• Simplify
  • Installation
  • Syntax
  • Documentation
• Improve Usability
  • GUI
  • Wysiwyg
  • AJAX
  • Improve documentation
• Performance/Scalability
  • Mod_perl
  • Indexing
  • Caching
• Security
  • secure attachments
• Marketing
  • Focus on features that help target audiance
  • Improvements to TWiki.org

-- LynnwoodBrown - 27 Feb 2006

Tinderbox

• wbniv has fixed the tinderbox and install scripts to be up to date, and would like to deploy it.
• Can't be done at the moment, develop.twiki.org can't handle the load, and it's impossible to synch the SVN repository to a machine located elsewhere to run the tinderbox off a local SVN there (see IRC log for details).

Action Items

IRC Log

• EdinburghMinutes2006x02x20.txt: Edinburgh Meeting Minutes 2006-02-20

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