Minutes of TWiki Kampala Release Meeting, 2015-06-04

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Thursday, 2015-06-04 22:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2015x05x21
• Next release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2015x06x18

• Log of IRC meeting: KampalaMeetingLog2015x06x04.txt

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • HaraldJoerg ( HaraldJoerg )
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • JamesMacdonell ( jmacdone )
  • DipuDeshmukh ( dipu )
  • SteveCooper ( SteveCooper )
  • ImonDeshmukh ( Khan__ )
  • JonForrest ( nobozo_ )
  • VickiBrown ( Vicki )
  • MichaelGulitz ( MichaelGulitz )
  • MichaelSevero ( msevero )
  • MahiroAndo ( MahiroAndo )
  • YaojunFei ( YaojunFei )
  • ThomasGutzmann ( ThomasGutzmann )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
  • RichMorin ( Vicki )
  • IanKluft ( ko6yq-lt )
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

1. Feature Requests for Kampala Release

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

• PortableTWiki - by Harald
  • First version now posted on TWiki file area on SourceForge.net at https://sourceforge.net/projects/twiki/files/TWiki-Personal/
    • Needs a README.txt with short description, and pointer to twiki.org package home
    • Better to create a sub-dir per TWiki release
  • Needs TWikiPersonal package home on TWiki.org
    • Add a yellow banner to TWikiForWindowsPersonal with pointer to the new topic
  • Would be nice to have a Mac (OS-X) version
  • Rename package to include platform, such as TWiki-Personal-Win-6.0.2-alpha.zip
  • New twikidev tool to create package in one go!
    • Example: twikidev packtwp to create the TWiki-personal package
  • Harald considering a move towards "TWiki for Windows servers - enterprise edition"

• SearchAttachmentsInAWeb - by PTh
  • This is now done, needs status changed

2. Extensions

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

• Possibly create TWikiDevContrib in the Plugins web for new twikidev build tool

• IfThenActionPlugin
  • New "attachsection" then-action to attach the content of a section as a file attachment
  • Purpose: Create .css and .js files inside twiki pages, then attach those as attachments each time you update the topic; use this with PublishWebPlugin to maintain all website files in TWiki topics

3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

• Desired outcome: Identify must fixes
• See TWikibug:WebChanges, TWikibug:ReleaseBlocker and TWikibug:DetailedItemsQuery

• TWikibug:Item7620 - Add CGI to TWiki core distribution
  • Thank you Harald!

• TWikibug:Item7659 - tools/tick_twiki.pl does not remove spurious leases
  • Thank you Hideyo-san!

4. Miscellaneous

• (none)

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