Minutes of TWiki Kampala Release Meeting, 2017-11-02

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Thursday, 2017-11-02 22:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2017x10x19
• Next release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2017x11x16

• Log of IRC meeting: KampalaMeetingLog-2017-11-02.txt

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • HaraldJoerg ( HaraldJoerg )
  • BasabBijoy ( BasabBijoy )
  • 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

• TestingTWikiThePerlWay - by Harald
  • Time to put "Perl way testing" in SVN
  • TestCasesTutorial needs to be updated

2. Extensions

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

• none

3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

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

• TWikibug:Item7640: Unit Tests: DEC2HEX and DEC2BIN create longer strings with 64bit Perl
  • Fixed by PTh

• TWikibug:Item7826: The HASHREVERSE test case in SpreadSheetPluginTestCases fails.... randomly
• TWikibug:Item7827: With non-threaded Perl, the $SPLIT function of SpreadSheetPlugin fails after splitting on '$empty'
  • Both on the way of fixing by Harald

• TWikibug:Item7796: TWiki with current Perl: Make CGI::Carp work from TWiki's distribution
  • Harald did a second attempt to fix this issue: Run TWiki on an installation with Perl 5.24 and no CGI.pm installed on the system

4. TWiki Release Discussion

• Desired outcome: Scope of additional work needed for new release

• Goal to release before end of the year
• In 2017-09-21 meeting we decided to raise required perl from 5.8 to 5.10.1

5. Miscellaneous

• E-mail issue, no reg and no commit notification
  • PTh to ping ISP again

• Send commit notification to Slack
  • Hideyo-san to look into it
  • CPAN Lib: http://search.cpan.org/~mihyaeru/WebService-Slack-WebApi-0.01/lib/WebService/Slack/WebApi.pm

        my $posted_message = $slack->chat->post_message(
            channel  => 'channel id', # required
            text     => 'hoge',       # required
            username => 'fuga',       # optional
        );

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