Minutes of TWiki Jerusalem Release Meeting, 2013-02-15

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Friday, 2013-02-15 05:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x02x01
• Next release meeting: JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x03x01

• Log of IRC meeting: JerusalemMeetingLog2013x02x15.txt

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • YaojunFei ( YaojunFei )
  • MahiroAndo ( MahiroAndo )
  • MichaelGulitz ( MichaelGulitz )
  • DavidAllen ( DavidAllen )
  • TomCrane ( tomc20922 )
  • GeorgeTrubisky ( GeorgeTrubisky )
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • ThomasGutzmann ( ThomasGutzmann )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
  • VictorHeredia ( VictorHeredia )
  • VickiBrown ( Vicki )
  • RichMorin ( Vicki )
  • KarenNorton ( knorton )
  • EnriqueCadalso ( EnriqueCadalso )
  • TomaszWalaszek ( tmw )
  • PaulReiber ( pbr )
  • CraigTobias ( CraigTobias )
  • SteveMokris ( smokris )
  • SopanShewale ( SopanShewale )
  • 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

• SubwebMaxDepth: %WEBLIST{.. subwebs="WEB:DEPTH" ...}% -by Hideyo-san
  • Accepted by release meeting using depth="..."

• EmptyIfCondition: Empty IF condition to be regarded valid and false - by Hideyo-san
  • No-brainer, accepted by release meeting using depth="..."

2. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

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

• TWikibug:Item7145: Sanitize MAKETEXT variable: Remove excessive tilde
  • New urgent issue, likely requires CVE

• TWikibug:Item6082: deep recursion bug in query search
  • Looks like this old fixed bug sneaked into TWiki again - need to open a new bug

3. Extensions

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

• SyntaxHighlightingPlugin:
  • Now updated with nice default style for box and for number column, and with configurable defaults
  • http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ could be a JavaScript based alternative

• TWikiDashboardAddOn:
  • TWikiDashboardImages has now 80 banner images

• NotifyAuthorsPlugin:
  • New plugin by PTh, useful for workflow type apps, and if you want to ping people involved in a comment thread

• WatchlistPluginDev:
  • PTh is now working on this

4. Miscellaneous

• PTh submitted a speaker proposal for OSCON
  • Title: Structured Wikis at Work - Create Wiki Apps To Support Your R&D Process
  • Abstract: A structured wiki has two parts: Enterprise wiki for content, and a database for wiki applications. Learn from the founder of TWiki, the first structured wiki, how to create wiki apps using TML, HTML, CSS and JavaScript to automate your workflows. Case studies of Morgan Stanley & Wave Systems are covered to show various development methodologies using kanban, personas, user stories and more

• TWikiMeetUps:
  • We have not done a TWiki User Meetup in a while
  • PTh would like to do one in the Silicon Valley

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