Minutes of Georgetown Release Meeting, 2008-08-04

TOC and Agenda

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Monday, 2008-08-04 19:00 GMT (Convert the start for your time zone)
• IRC Channel: #twiki_release

• Participants: (smilies for those who are present)
  • PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny_)
  • KennethLavrsen (Lavr)
  • MarkusUeberall (uebera||)
  • OliverKrueger (OliverKrüger)
  • AndreUlrich (AndreU)
  • MartinSeibert (MartinSeibert) (I will be there.)
  • MartinCleaver (MartinCleaver)
  • CrawfordCurrie (CDot)
  • LynnwoodBrown (Lynnwood)
  • RafaelAlvarez (Soronthar)
  • OlivierRaginel (Babar)
  • EugenMayer
  • DrewStevenson (etherbob)
  • KwangErnLiew (ktwilight)
  • LarsEik
  • TomBarton
  • MichaelDaum (MichaelDaum)
  • CarloSchulz (Carlo)
  • SopanShewale (SopanShewale)
  • ArthurClemens (ArthurClemens)
  • ColasNahaboo
  • SvenDowideit (sven_/SvenDowideit)
  • HaraldJoerg (HaraldJoerg)
  • GilmarSantosJr
  • StephenHoffmann (shoffmann)
  • WillThomas (will_t1)
  • SteffenPoulsen (SteffenPoulsen)
  • WillNorris (wbniv)
  • SteveRJones (SteveRJones)
  • GordonTetlow (gordont)
  • Torsten (McAldo)
  • SamHasler (Flenser)
  • StephaneLenclud (StephaneLenclud)
  • ThomasWeigert (tweigert)
  • TravisBarker (TravisBarker)
  • AntonioTerceiro (terceiro)
  • iradel
• Facilitated by MartinSeibert
• Notes taken by KennethLavrsen

• Log of IRC meeting: GeorgetownMinutes2008x08x04.txt

• Previous release meeting: GeorgetownReleaseMeeting2008x07x21
• Next release meeting: GeorgetownReleaseMeeting2008x08x18

1. TWiki 4.2.1 Post Mortem

• Desired outcome: What can be done to make timely patch releases; target date for 4.2.2 release

• We need more marketing happening around the release.
  • KennethLavrsen will create a blog entry in his role as "release manager"
  • MartinSeibert will create a weblog for the managers and marketing people in English and German
  • MartinSeibert will inform important German media about the current release and ask for coverage
  • MartinSeibert will create a wiki-document, that offers a list of sources to inform about new versions of TWiki
  • OliverKrueger will use his contacts at heise online for coverage.
  • KennethLavrsen Lavr will add an info, that states an improvement of 10% for the new TWiki-release (will confirm numbers first)
  • People are encouraged to blog everywhere.

• 4.2.2
  • MarkusUeberall will file a severe bug he has already found in the new release and try to add a fix as soon as possible.
  • CrawfordCurrie should reapply his IF refactoring asap so it gets tested for 4.2.2
  • Kenneth predicts this to be a 10-20 bug items release - very small - released in mid September. It will not take UTF8 into its scope meaning that the I18N Normal bugs will be adressed in 5.0.

2. Feature requests for Georgetown Release

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

• ProcessAddToHeadAdds - Sven and Crawford - we wait for you to agree or disagree on the proposal topic.
• MakingVarVARTopicCapable - Martin needs to tell us why he raised concern against his own proposal. He must bring it forward to a meeting himself. We do not know what to discuss. Kenneth parks it.

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Comments / Feedback

Apologies for not attending; I had intended to, but forgot. Sorry.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 05 Aug 2008

It is the results, that count. You have contributed to the new release. That's plenty in my opinion.

-- MartinSeibert - 06 Aug 2008