Minutes of TWiki Istanbul Release Meeting, 2011-05-23

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Monday, 2011-05-23 17:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: IstanbulReleaseMeeting2011x05x09
• Next release meeting: IstanbulReleaseMeeting2011x06x06

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny)
  • GeorgeTrubisky (GeorgeTrubisky)
  • PeterJones (PeterJones)
  • EliasAarnio (elias_a)
  • TomaszWalaszek (tmw)
  • MichaelGulitz (mgg)
  • JuhoSaarinen (JuhoSaarinen)
  • PaulReiber (pbr)
  • CraigTobias (CraigTobias)
  • SteveMokris (smokris)
  • JulianCollins (JulianC)
  • SopanShewale (SopanShewale)
  • MartinKohoutek (KokoZ)
  • ChengappaCB (Chengappa)
  • JitendraKavathekar (Jeet)
  • JoenioCosta (joenio)
  • HeatherStern (starshine)
  • AlexBernegger (alexbernegger)
  • IanKluft (ko6yq-lt)
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

• Log of IRC meeting: IstanbulMeetingLog2011x05x23.txt

1. TWiki-5.0.1 Upgrade Package

• George created upgrade package, file count is off, needs testing

2. Feature Requests for Istanbul Release

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

• PassTextAndMetaDataToRegisterTagHandlerCallback - PTh checked in code an doc - DONE
• ReadOnlySkinMode - PTh checked in code an doc - DONE
• CustomizableTopBarSizing - proposed by Thomas Weigert, feature now covered by TWikibug:Item6659, "Customizable web-specific top bar"
• PluginGarbageCollection - new proposal posted by Timothe
• MoreVisualUserHomepages - PTh proposed this feature for 5.1
  • Would be nice to have an image uploader/selector, ImageSelectionPluginDev
• DownloadTWikiVM - PTh created new VMware based TWiki-5.0.2 based on latest CentOS 5.6
  • There is also a new Microsoft Hyper-V image, looking for testers
• ChartPlugin - more improvements by Tait
• GaugePlugin - Tait plans to add an image-less gauge option
  • Timothe proposes to embed gauge images inline using data URI
• VarCachePlugin - Timothe posted improvements, PTh will check in
• ReputationPlugin - Joona posted an update
• MicroformatsPlugin - plugin was in SVN but was never released to twiki.org plugins repository
  • PTh improved the plugin and posted it on twiki.org
  • This plugin is a nice start and has potential, but needs more improvements to be useful
• PTh updated 20 plugins since the last release meeting

3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

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

• (skipped)

4. Pending Features for TWiki-5.1

• BackupRestoreUtility - must have - PTh
• MoreVisualUserHomepages - must have - PTh
• CombineJumpBoxAndSearchBox - nice to have, as time permits - PTh
• RollbackAttachmentVersion - nice to have - Pete Jones
• DiffAttachments - nice to have - Pete Jones
• EmptyTrash - nice to have - George
• SummaryBasedOnSearchTerms - nice to have - Steve Mokris

5. Miscellaneous

• (none)

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