Minutes of Helsinki Release Meeting, 2009-12-21

TOC and Agenda

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Monday, 2009-12-21 18:00 GMT (Convert the start for your time zone)
• IRC channel: #twiki_release

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny)
  • SopanShewale (SopanShewale)
  • HorstEsser (herbivore)
  • PeterJones (PeterJones)
  • KlausEthgen (Mowgli)
  • MilindPansare (MilindPanse)
  • JitendraKavathekar (Jeet)
  • JoenioCosta (joenio)
  • JordanKoppole (Jordan)
  • HeatherStern (starshine)
  • AlexBernegger (alexbernegger)
  • SteveMokris (smokris)
  • LukeVi (viwen)
  • IanKluft (ko6yq-lt)
  • PeterNixon (pnixon)
  • RobertGerlach (khnz)
  • ChengappaCB (Chengappa)
  • PaulReiber (pbr)
  • SteveMilner (ashcrow)
  • HarriLakkala (hrry)
  • AnnRuckstuhl (AnnRuckstuhl)
  • QuentinHartman (qhartman)
  • KimKnuttila (krk)
  • AJAlfieriCrispin (KiltBear)
  • ChrisTracy (ctrace)
  • CraigMeyer (CraigMeyer)
  • RuiProcopio (procopio)
  • WoutMertens (wmertens)
  • NicolasWrobel
  • SteffenPoulsen
  • SanjeevJha77 (SanjeevJha)
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

• Log of IRC meeting: HelsinkiMeetingLog2009x12x21.txt

• Previous release meeting: HelsinkiReleaseMeeting2009x12x07
• Next release meeting: HelsinkiReleaseMeeting2010x01x04

1. Feature requests for Helsinki Release

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

• ImplementBuildWikiWordFunction: Horst is ready, waiting for process details from Peter
• SessionManagement: Sopan is handling
• TWikiDocGraphicsInMainWeb: Peter implemented, doc and some performance tuning pending. Check in after 14 day span

2. Review Urgent Bugs

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

• TWikibug:Item6366: %RED% - colors syntax lost while WYSYWYG editor used to save the topics - FIXED by Sopan
• TWikibug:Item6276: Cannot specify percentBRpercent for newline value - FIXED by Sopan

3. TWiki 4.4 or 5.0 Release Discussion

• Desired outcome: Target release date and scope

• Target release date: March 2010
• Fix unit tests on trunk
• Stabilize trunk for March 2010 release
• Aim for 5.0 release (not 4.4)
• Functionality, target:
  • Add 2 pugins to core (best ones TBD based in TWikiMission)
  • Update pattern skin with pulldown menus (possibly retiring the sidebar)
  • Add database backend (just for caching of meta data and key page elements (such as backlinks))
  • Redesigned user profile pages (with photos, tabbed interface)
  • Easier install and upgrade
  • Copy some useful features from related projects

4. Miscellaneous

• N/A

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