Minutes of TWiki Lima Release Meeting, 2018-08-02

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Thursday, 2018-08-02 22:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: LimaReleaseMeeting2018x07x19
• Next release meeting: LimaReleaseMeeting2018x08x16

• Log of IRC meeting: LimaMeetingLog-2018-08-02.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 Lima Release

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

• (skipped)

2. Extensions

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

• (skipped)

3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

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

• (skipped)

4. TWiki Release Followup

• Desired outcome: Identify process improvements

• Built was good, already available, and no reports of issues
• Build of package is well documented at BuildingARelease, but very labor intensive
  • Room for automation, ideally script will create the .tgz, .zip and .md5 from either trunk or latest branch
• Updating many TWiki.org topics well documented at ProductionReleaseChecklist, but also very labor intensive
  • Room for automation, ideally script will create the .tgz, .zip and .md5 from either trunk or latest branch
• Still pending:
  1. Official release announce (short mail was sent to twiki-dev at time of release)
  2. Issue a few security alerts (fix already in new release)
• Based on votes in CodeName we decided on official code name for new release: LimaRelease

5. Miscellaneous

• Harald will attend the European Perl Conference in Glasgow in 2 weeks

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