Minutes of Edinburgh Release Meeting, 12 Jun 2006

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Monday, 12 Jun 2005 21:00 GMT
• IRC Channel: #twiki_edinburgh
• Participants: SvenDowideit (SvenDowideit present in spirit and logging), SteffenPoulsen (SteffenPoulsen), CrawfordCurrie (CDot), MeredithLesly (Drusilla), HaraldJoerg (HaraldJoerg), KennethLavrsen (Lavr), PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny), MartinCleaver (MartinCleaver), TravisBarker (TravisBarker), LynnwoodBrown (Lynnwood)
• FIXME Not present but usually are: ArthurClemens (ArthurClemens), SamHasler (Flenser), RafaelAlvarez (Soronthar), MichaelDaum (MichaelDaum, WillNorris (wbniv)
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny) and notes taken by KennethLavrsen
• EdinburghMinutes2006x06x12.txt: Edinburgh Meeting Minutes 2006-06-12

Agenda

• Review Previous Action Items
• TWiki 4.0.3 release
• Revisit rule of changing API in non-backwards-compatible way

1. Review Previous Action Items

• 4.0.3 Release
  • Crawford: Investigate setting Vars in forms - Fixed
  • Kenneth: Try registration failure without Net::SMTP installed - Problem fixed
  • Will: Commit to release date

• TWiki Doc Users
  • Focus group: Establish good old conference call. Kenneth will propose two timeslots this week. Probably round 19:00 or 20:00 CET / 17:00 or 18:00 UTC.

2. TWiki 4.0.3 Release

• Desired outcome: Clarify remaining issue, set release date

• Tentative date set for Jun 2006 -> First coming weekend - see actions below
• There will be a 2 day test period of pre-release. See actions below.

3. Revisit rule of changing API in non-backwards-compatible way

• Desire outcome: Debate rule and counter proposal; find mutual resolution

• Background: Kenneth proposed this rule at the EdinburghReleaseMeeting2006x05x08: "If a developer changes the API in a non-backwards-compatible way he/she also has to update all the broken Plugins that have been actively developed within the last two years." This business rule was discussed and agreed on by the participants. Crawford was at the meeting, but dropped out at the important part, and just came back when the decision was made, but he was lacking the context. After the fact, this rule is not favoured by some developers, hence the need to re-visit this decision. As a response to this, Crawford added this to the PluginsApiPolicy: "Developers will make every possible effort to ensure that plugins that are written to observe the documented API will continue to work without requiring code changes or, if such code changes are unavoidable due to shifting architectural constraints, will support plugins authors in making the necessary changes to the extent of providing code porting support."

Proposal was pulled back and all voted and agreed that no additional rule is needed from what we already have.

Action Items

• TWiki Doc Users Focus group: Establish good old conference call. Kenneth will propose two timeslots this week. Probably round 19:00 or 20:00 CET / 17:00 or 18:00 UTC.

TWiki 4.0.3

• Kenneth Lavrsen makes a Release Candidate.
• We kindly ask Sven to step in a do the real build of 4.0.3 this comingI weekend.
• Kenneth will update TWiki.org when release is ready.

IRC Log

• EdinburghMinutes2006x06x12.txt: Edinburgh Meeting Minutes 2006-06-12

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