Minutes of Georgetown Release Meeting, 2009-02-16

TOC and Agenda

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Monday, 2009-02-16 17:30 GMT (Convert the start for your time zone)
• IRC Channel: #twiki_release

• Participants: (smilies for those who are present)
  • PeterThoeny (PeterThoeny)
  • SopanShewale (SopanShewale)
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

• Log of IRC meeting: GeorgetownMinutes2009x02x16.txt

• Previous release meeting: GeorgetownReleaseMeeting2009x02x02
• Next release meeting: GeorgetownReleaseMeeting2009x03x02

1. Review Urgent Bugs

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

• TWikibug:Item5926 - Topics with Chinese in UTF8 destroys page view in Internet Explorer -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item4688 - TWiki password, registration and login options need a careful going over (urgent for 4.2.3) -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item6140 - Table attributes lost on save -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item6138 - Bulletted lists in form fields are not rendered properly -- Sopan working on it
• TWikibug:Item6091 - statistics broken (trunk only) -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item6161 - Test Cases from Release Branch Should pass before next Release
• TWikibug:Item6086 - TSA DENYTOPICVIEW causes crash (trunk only) -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item6041 - TinyMCE bug with Firefox 3 and bulleted lists -- fix by reporter, to be verified
• TWikibug:Item6039 - Preview does not respect VIEW_TEMPLATE (trunk only) -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item5804 - Can kill code by appending odd url params (trunk only) -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item5955 - WysiwygPlugin failes to roundtrip tables that are created with align center -- defer to after 4.3.0
• TWikibug:Item5437 - UTF-8 fixes for TWiki 5.0 (was 4.2 but deferred) -- defer to after 4.3.0

• TWikibug:Item6185 - Missing newline in Formatted Search if footer used -- not urgent, but fixed yesterday

2. Feature requests for Georgetown Release

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

• AddNumberOfTopicsToFormattedSearch - passed the 14 days without concerns raised, Peter implemented it yesterday
• RemoveQuestionMarkLinks - accepted by consensus, Peter to implement
• SmimeNotificationSupport - implemented and documented
• SkipProxyForDomains - implemented and documented
• ProcessAddToHeadAdds - not for 4.3.0
• TocFailsForIdenticalHeadingNames - implemented and documented
• ControlOverVariableExpansion - implemented and documented
• SearchResultsPagination - defer, too risky so short before release
• HeadlinesPlugin - add to core extensions for 4.3.0 release
• TWikiNetSkin - add to core extensions for 4.3.0 release
• TWikiNetSkinPlugin - add to core extensions for 4.3.0 release

3. Release timing of TWiki 4.3 release

• Desired outcome: Decide on target dates

• 2009-02-23 - code freeze
• 2009-03-02 - string freeze
• 2009-03-02 - rc1

• Peter to ask Markus if he'd like to help out to coordinate translations - TranslationSupport

4. Review release management process

• Desired outcome: Discuss and agree on refining the release management process
• See TWikiReleaseManagementProcess

• Goal is to make it easier and quicker to accept feature proposals for instant gratification, while keeping risk low of pushing feature through that is not aligned with mission
• Discussed Peter's idea posted at bottom of TWikiReleaseManagementProcess: May be require x% of active contributors to vote on a feature. Such as: "A vote on a feature can be done at a release meeting if 33% of active core contributors vote, either at the release meeting or online in the feature proposal topic ahead of release meeting. An active core contributor is defined as a person who made at least 3 check-ins within 2 month to the core or core extensions."
• Feedback: Consider also non-coders, e.g. people contributing on Codev, TWiki, Plugins and Support webs

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