Minutes of Edinburgh Release Meeting, 14 Aug 2006

TOC and Agenda

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Tuesday, 14 Aug 2005 20:00 GMT
• IRC Channel: #twiki_edinburgh
• Participants: SvenDowideit (SvenDowideit in spirit), KennethLavrsen (Lavr), ArthurClemens (ArthurClemens), PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny), SteffenPoulsen (SteffenPoulsen), RafaelAlvarez (Soronthar), OliverKrueger (OliverKrueger,
• Not present but usually are: Benjamin Jones (Dzaster), SamHasler (Flenser), MeredithLesly (Drusilla), TravisBarker (TravisBarker), LynnwoodBrown (Lynnwood), MartinCleaver (MartinCleaver), CrawfordCurrie (CDot), MichaelDaum (MichaelDaum), HaraldJoerg (HaraldJoerg), WillNorris (wbniv)
• Facilitated by SteffenPoulsen
• Notes taken by KennethLavrsen (Lavr)
• Meeting Minutes: EdinburghMinutes2006x08x14.txt

1. Review Previous Action Items

• Doc Team: Discuss if we also want to reduce content as proposed by Sven and supported by many in community No progress
• All: Add to "Wishlist" BenchmarkFramework - requirements and wishes - very few wishes added. Need more input!
• Meredith: Create TWikiFn? branch of TWiki4 with no other changes.
  • Kenneth: Benchmark the above with TWiki4 without TWikiFn? . Done. TWikiFn? has little impact on performance. It seems a little slower on virgin site but faster when many topics and users.
• All: Try Configure script in DEVELOP and provide feedback for Crawford.

2. Process to accept change proposals

• Desired outcome: Define a process that is customer focused; is easy and quick to get new features accepted; is scalable (not too much workload on a single person); lets us stay focused on mission, quality and performance goals
• Discuss alternatives to TWikiReleaseManagerRole
• Proposal: TWikiRelease04x01Process

3. Review proposed items

• Desired outcome: Give green lights where possible to pending items in WhatIsIn04x01

1. TWikiFns (previously called TWikiTags) - ML - ??? Is Meredith still driving this after BewareOfTheQuietLeavers?
2. ExtensionInstaller in configure - CC
   • Evaluation version available in DEVELOP branch. Accepted with wishlist (to be created)
3. DakarPerformanceIssues - KennethLavrsen
   We need steps to bring TWiki back towards at least Cairo performance.
   • The main contribution to address this is the profiling framework. See BenchmarkFramework
4. PluginHandlerForContentMove - PTh
5. AutoIncTopicNameOnSave - PTh
6. TemplatePathIsCounterintuitive - Main.MartinCleaver
7. PalettablePatternSkin - Main.MartinCleaver
8. PreInstallSmartEditAddOn - PTh
9. MainTWikiPreferencesOverridePluginSettings - PTh, TW

4 Reply to NuwikiRip

• PatternSkin? is released under GPL and there will not be any dual license.

5. Profiling framework for TWiki

• Desired outcome: Try to define roadmap for easy to use profiling tool
• HaraldJoerg has proposed a good start at BenchmarkFramework. Harald should ask for which parts of the work others can help on.

Action Items

• All: Profilling - few wishlist inputs. More very welcome. Agree to let Harald push this further.
• Kenneth: TWikiFn? . Ask Meredith if she is committed to drive it further - and when. It takes a driver to continue this further. There is still full support for the idea.
  • Rafael: Take a stab at defining the scope of finishing the work of implementing TWikiFn? including docs, t.o. code, testcases etc
• Kenneth: Clarify the veto on TWikiRelease04x01Process as it has been discussed today.
• All: Configure on DEVELOP: "as a general statement, there is no need to tell CDot anything else than - go ahead - and here is our additional wishlist." More of us will try to test further.
• PreInstallSmartEditAddOn looks promissing but does not work on Safari. So needs more work. But could be TWiki distribution candidate.
  • Arthur: will try and look at code as time allows
  • Anyone: Can we get the developer access to a MacOS machine with Safari? (does he have access to one already - and is his sponser OK with spending time on this aspect?)

IRC Log

• EdinburghMinutes2006x08x14.txt: Edinburgh Meeting Minutes 2006-08-14

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