Minutes of TWiki Jerusalem Release Meeting, 2013-05-16

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Thursday, 2013-05-16 22:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x05x09
• Next release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x05x30

• Log of IRC meeting: JerusalemMeetingLog2013x05x16.txt

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • VickiBrown ( Vicki )
  • MahiroAndo ( MahiroAndo )
  • YaojunFei ( YaojunFei )
  • MichaelGulitz ( MichaelGulitz )
  • DavidAllen ( DavidAllen )
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • ThomasGutzmann ( ThomasGutzmann )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
  • VictorHeredia ( VictorHeredia )
  • RichMorin ( Vicki )
  • EnriqueCadalso ( EnriqueCadalso )
  • PaulReiber ( pbr )
  • IanKluft ( ko6yq-lt )
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

1. Feature Requests for Jerusalem Release

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

• ProtectPredefinedVariables:
  • Accepted by 7 day feedback period
  • Recommend to hard code in array and/or use .cfg, better performance than using FINALPREFERENCES

• TWikiAppInstaller:
  • Work in progress; last major feature before next major release

2. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

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

• TWikibug:Item7247: BulkRegistration causes Insecure dependency error
  • Needs someone to own it

3. Extensions

• Desired outcome: Get everyone in sync, coordinate enhancements
• See Plugins web

• New AutoSectionsPlugin:
  • Very promising new plugin by MahiroAndo
  • Recommendation for per web / page setting:
    • Set AUTOSECTIONS = on -- turn on sectional edit
    • Set AUTOSECTIONS = hover -- turn on, with edit visible on hover
    • Set AUTOSECTIONS = off -- turn off sectional edit
  • It would be nice to have WYSIWYG editor support, based on EDITMETHOD setting

• PublishWebPlugin enhancement: *Better visual clue what gets published in the plugin topic, indicated by green dotted line

4. Miscellaneous

4.1. TWiki.org Site Outage Post Mortem

• Likely to move to more reliable hosting provider, possibly Amazon EC2
• Details in log

4.2. Get More Developers Involved

• To be discussed next time, think about ways to get more people involved for development & advocacy
• GettingInvolved is a good entry point

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