Minutes of TWiki Kampala Release Meeting, 2018-04-19

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Thursday, 2018-04-19 23:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2018x04x05
• Next release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2018x05x03

• Log of IRC meeting: KampalaMeetingLog-2018-04-19.txt

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • HaraldJoerg ( HaraldJoerg )
  • BasabBijoy ( BasabBijoy )
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • JamesMacdonell ( jmacdone )
  • DipuDeshmukh ( dipu )
  • VickiBrown ( Vicki )
  • MichaelGulitz ( MichaelGulitz )
  • MahiroAndo ( MahiroAndo )
  • ThomasGutzmann ( ThomasGutzmann )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
• 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

• none

2. Extensions

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

• IfThenActionPlugin
  • Hideyo-san tried at work and found several things to enhance for his use
  • Need to be able to define rules in a web that run just in this web, with fallback for global rules

3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

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

• TWikibug:Item7228: Switchboard configuration for sendemail is never copied into LocalSite.cfg
  • This is an old item; the plugin needs to be updated
  • Related to Support.SID-02352

• TWikibug:Item7838: subweb named RCS causes problems
  • This caused a periodic statistics run fail
  • Suggested change: Instead of defining a regex as a regex in configure, define the regex as a string, and the system converts it into a regex
  • Existing example: $TWiki::cfg{NameFilter} = ‘[\\s\\*?~^\\$\\#@%`“\‘&;\\\\|<>\\[\\]\\+\\x00-\\x1f]’;

4. TWiki Release Discussion

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

• no update

5. Miscellaneous

• The German Perl Workshop 2019 will take place in Munich
  • Harald will be involved with organizing the event

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