Minutes of TWiki Kampala Release Meeting, 2016-01-07

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Thursday, 2016-01-07 23:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2015x12x17
• Next release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2016x01x21

• Log of IRC meeting: KampalaMeetingLog2016x01x07.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

• TWikiFuncGetDebugFilePath - by HideyoImazu-san
  • Discussed and agreed to add just the debug file path name to the API

• TWikiLevelComments - by RichMorin
  • No committed developer and date set (needs one to be accepted)
  • Proposal looks OK, but some concern to add another XML-like tag

• TWikiStoreWithMongoDB - by PTh
  • No committed developer and date at this time
  • Using MongoDB as a cache can potentially speed up things dramatically
  • Advantages of NoSQL over SQL in TWiki's case:
    1. schema-less; allows us to cache arbitrary twiki forms with fast queries
    2. regex queries, a must if we want to stay compatible with twiki query language
    3. think in objects, not rows and columns; e.g easier to implement because of object nature of twiki topics

• TWikiUnitTests:
  • Based on Harald, needs an overhaul, see log for detail

2. Extensions

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

• PerlDocPlugin:
  • Updated by Harald - thank you!

• FlotChartsContrib: (to be released)
  • New extension that packages http://www.flotcharts.org/, a jQuery-based plugin for browser side plotting - in work by PTh for a client

3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

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

• TWikibug:Item7708: Copyright update to 2016
  • PTh to work on that over the next few weeks

• TWikibug:Item7705 - TWiki 6.0.2 on Strawberry Perl (Windows) fails with 'POSIX::tzset not implemented on this architecture'
  • Harald working on this

4. Miscellaneous

• PTh enabled buy and DownloadTWikiVM-6.0.2 for $15 a good week ago. The older 6.0.1 VM can be downloaded for free as usual. So far only one person purchased, not enough to cover the server cost.

Back to: KampalaRelease

Comments / Feedback