Minutes of TWiki Jerusalem Release Meeting, 2012-03-02

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Friday, 2012-03-02 05:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x02x10
• Next release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x03x16

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny)
  • GeorgeTrubisky ( GeorgeTrubisky)
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • HeatherStern ( starshine)
  • MichaelGulitz ( MichaelGulitz)
  • EnriqueCadalso ( EnriqueCadalso )
  • VictorHeredia( VictorH)
  • PhillipHuang ( Phillip1 )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • ChengappaCB ( Chengappa)
  • TomaszWalaszek ( tmw)
  • PaulReiber ( pbr)
  • CraigTobias ( CraigTobias)
  • SteveMokris ( smokris)
  • JulianCollins ( JulianC)
  • SopanShewale ( SopanShewale)
  • JitendraKavathekar ( Jeet)
  • JoenioCosta ( joenio)
  • IanKluft ( ko6yq-lt)
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

• Log of IRC meeting: JerusalemMeetingLog2012x03x02.txt

1. Feature Requests for Jerusalem Release

• Desired outcome: Discuss and decide on pending feature request that need attention
• See TWikiFeatureProposals

• MoveChangeFormFromEditToMoreScreen - almost done; PTh discovered a bug on develop.twiki.org TWiki that needs to be fixed
• RepositoryForSiteAndWebMetadata - no additional data at this time by Imazu-san
• DatabaseStore - instead of SQL DB, may be a NoSQL DB is more suitable to store TWikiForms data and replicate data across sites; PTh to investigate
• ControlledTopicPermissionInheritance - good proposal by Michael, possibly refine to inherit permissions instead of setting permissions

2. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

• Desired outcome: Identify must fixes
• See TWikibug:ReleaseBlocker

• TWikibug:Item5926 & TWikibug:Item5437 - Heather looking into it; possibly not fix IE7/IE8 issue, but recommend upgrade to IE9

3. TWiki Foundation Discussion

• Desired outcome: Creative ideas and actions on forming a TWiki Foundation to attract more developers
• See TWikiFoundation

• PTh mentioned his blog BlogEntry201203x1
  • Current eco-system: Community + 1 company + consultants
  • We could morph this into:  Community + many companies + consultants + ISVs
• Need legal entity for companies to get involved
• Heather suggests to interview some contributors who left
• Plan:
  1. do research
  2. decide if to join a foundation or to create one
  3. join or incorporate
  4. define initial structure where companies and people can donate money & how to allocate that money
• Homework to look into non-profits:
  • Eclipse - George
  • SBay - Heather
  • Apache - PTh
• Coordinate publicly at TWikiFoundation

4. Miscellaneous

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