Minutes of TWiki Jerusalem Release Meeting, 2012-10-26

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Friday, 2012-10-26 04:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x10x12
• Next release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x11x09

• Log of IRC meeting: JerusalemMeetingLog2012x10x26.txt

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • MahiroAndo ( MahiroAndo )
  • YaojunFei ( YaojunFei )
  • GeorgeTrubisky ( GeorgeTrubisky )
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • MichaelGulitz ( MichaelGulitz )
  • ThomasGutzmann ( ThomasGutzmann )
  • TylerSlijboom ( tyatpi )
  • ZoltanGecse ( zgecse )
  • HeatherStern ( starshine )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
  • VictorHeredia ( VictorHeredia )
  • VickiBrown ( Vicki )
  • RichMorin ( Vicki )
  • KarenNorton ( knorton )
  • EnriqueCadalso ( EnriqueCadalso )
  • PhillipHuang ( Phillip1 )
  • ChengappaCB ( Chengappa )
  • TomaszWalaszek ( tmw )
  • PaulReiber ( pbr )
  • CraigTobias ( CraigTobias )
  • SteveMokris ( smokris )
  • JulianCollins ( JulianC )
  • SopanShewale ( SopanShewale )
  • JoenioCosta ( joenio )
  • IanKluft ( ko6yq-lt )
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

1. Feature Requests for Jerusalem Release

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

• AddLWPParametersToGetExternalResource - by Mahiro-san
  • Refined spec based some fruiteful discussions, now implemented
• RegisterExternalHTTPHandler - by Mahiro-san
  • Good proposal, accepted at release meeting
• CategorizeTWikiVariables - by PTh
  • Useful for people new to TWiki; at later point enhance editors with picklist to drill down on variables
• EntityVariable - by PTh
  • Accepted by release meeting
• TWiki::Func::getMasterWebScriptUrl and TWiki::Func::getScriptUrl - by Hideyo-san
  • Investigate if possible to consolidate the two into one - goal is to make it easy for less experienced developers

2. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

• Desired outcome: Identify must fixes
• See TWikibug:ReleaseBlocker

• Stable - skipped

3. Extensions

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

• New SsoForwardCookiePlugin - thanks Mahiro-san!
• New contributor MikeDoherty who is already getting active with checkins to update the SearchEngineKinoSearchAddOn. Thanks Mike!
• Many plugins updates in last two weeks

4. Miscellaneous

• Good uptake in contributions! This month to date we have already 323 SVN checkins, last month we had 239, and before that in average about 100 per month for the last 12 month. Details at TWikiOrgStatistics.

Back to: JerusalemRelease

Comments / Feedback

For ReadOnlyAndMirrorWebs, I added the following functions to TWiki::Func:

• getSiteName() -> $siteName
• getContentMode($web) -> $contentMode
• getMasterWebScriptUrl($web, $topic, Script) -> $url

-- HideyoImazu - 2012-10-25