Minutes of Edinburgh Release Meeting, 29 May 2006

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Monday, 29 May 2005 21:00 GMT
• IRC Channel: #twiki_edinburgh
• Participants: SteffenPoulsen (SteffenPoulsen), ArthurClemens (ArthurClemens), MeredithLesly (Drusilla), HaraldJoerg (HaraldJoerg), KennethLavrsen (Lavr), PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny), SamHasler (Flenser), RafaelAlvarez (Soronthar), CrawfordCurrie (CDot)
• Not present but usually are: SvenDowideit? (SvenDowideit? ), MichaelDaum (MichaelDaum, WillNorris (wbniv), LynnwoodBrown (Lynnwood)
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny) and notes taken by KennethLavrsen
• EdinburghMinutes2006x05x29.txt: Edinburgh Meeting Minutes 2006-05-29

Agenda

• Review Previous Action Items
• TWiki 4.0.3 release

1. Review Previous Action Items

• Peter, Sven: Make outgoing e-mail work on twiki.org server
  • Done
• Kenneth: Send sendmail configs to Peter
  • Done
• Peter: Ask "big corporation" for another box + hosting (for Tinderbox)
  • Done - waiting for reply
• Peter: Update TWikiReleaseNotes04x00x00.txt with 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 sections
  • Done
• ???: Remove Joomla stuff from configure before 4.0.3 release (Sven added it)
  • Done
• All: Help on updating end user / admin docs (as/link to supplemental docs)
  • Not much activity Kenneth asked for more guidelines. Peter till give off line

2. TWiki 4.0.3 Release

• Desired outcome: Clarify remaining issue, set release date

• Tentative date set for ?? Jun 2006
• There will be a 2 day test period of pre-release.

3. twiki.org upgrade/bugs

• Desire outcome: Clarify status, any remaining configuration issues; how to report bugs/suggestions

• Status and configuration issues:
  • A decision was made to temporarily set TWIKIWEB to TWiki04 instead of TWiki to facilitate the move to 4.0.x
    • Links to distro contents worked.
    • �:( Links to non-distro contents are (temporarily) broken.
  • Improve communication of status
• Bug reporting
  • How do bugs in TWiki.org get tracked, if the person discovering a problem can't fix it? Many areas of t.o are not writable by ordinary mortals.
    • The bug tracker on ~develop is for core and plugins bugs; there is nowhere to report t.o docs bugs.

4. TWikiDocUsers?

• The focus group - when do we get focussed?

Action Items

• Docs
  • Docs on TWiki. Follow guideline on ProposedInterimDocGuidelines for now. Goal is that entry is TWiki/WebHome and you should go via SupplementalDocuments to the final destination in 3-4 clicks.

• 4.0.3
  • 4.0.3 beta build went OK. But there were severe bugs - especially round registration
  • USERINFO bug - try to fix quickly. Otherwise remove the small neew email/USERINFO table from new user template. Crawford will try to fix.
  • Setting Vars in forms. Was in Cairo and was removed. Should it go back? Will it gold back 4.0.3? Do we re-introduce it and depreciate it? Agreement that feature should go back to allow at least one installation to upgrade to TWiki4.
    1. keep this as a release blocker until investigated - CDot investigates
    2. try as FormsForSettingsContrib? , detached from 4.0.3 release
  • Registration fails when no SMTP server abailable even when verification is disabled.
    • Kenneth found that leaving {SMTP}{MAILHOST} blank and add note in configure "If you have no SMTP server leave this field blank" could be the fix. At least with Net::SMTP installed. Kenneth will try the case without.
  • Release data: Need WillNorris to commit a date. We cannot commit for him.

• twiki.org upgrade/bugs
  • Change requests to the very few topics that are locked can be done in Support web.
  • Status: Need to update more important settings topics in TWiki web before TWIKIWEB can be reset to normal
  • Cron need to be installed for notify feature
  • Convert user home pages to new format

• TWiki Doc Users
  • Scope is twiki.org. Not distro docs.
  • Relevant topics: KindsOfTWikiDocUsers, CustomerFocusedTWikiOrg
  • Focus group will try with good old conference calls to become more efficient (sponsered).

IRC Log

• EdinburghMinutes2006x05x29.txt: Edinburgh Meeting Minutes 2006-05-29

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