Subject: KampalaMeetingLog2015x06x18.txt
Date: June 18, 2015 3:50:14 PM PDT

[3:00pm]  HideyoImazu joined the chat room.
[3:00pm] PeterThoeny: hi HideyoImazu-san!
[3:00pm] HideyoImazu: Hi Peter!
[3:00pm] PeterThoeny: what's new?
[3:01pm] HideyoImazu: it's in rainy season in Tokyo
[3:01pm] HideyoImazu: not raining every day, but every other day or so
[3:01pm]  HaraldJoerg joined the chat room.
[3:02pm] HaraldJoerg: Good evening!
[3:02pm] PeterThoeny: hi HaraldJoerg!
[3:03pm] PeterThoeny: reason why i was expected to be late today:  i went to the oath ceremony, i am now officially a 
usa citizen
[3:03pm] HaraldJoerg: Congratulations 
[3:03pm] PeterThoeny: thanks
[3:04pm] HideyoImazu: congrats!
[3:05pm] PeterThoeny: what's new in germany?
[3:05pm] HaraldJoerg: Nothing helpful for TWiki, I'm afraid
[3:06pm] HaraldJoerg: June weather is Bavarian monsun
[3:07pm] PeterThoeny: tomorrow my son and i will drive 6h to the black rock desert for a few days
[3:07pm] PeterThoeny: launching big rockets
[3:07pm] PeterThoeny: i am looking forward to this, best father's day present ever 
[3:08pm] HideyoImazu: cool
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: time check: +9min, shall we start?
[3:09pm] HideyoImazu: sure
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/KampalaReleaseMeeting2015x06x18
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: usual agenda:
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: 1. Feature Requests for Kampala Release
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: 2. Extensions
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: 3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: 4. Miscellaneous
[3:09pm] PeterThoeny: ---++ 1. Feature Requests for Kampala Release
[3:10pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiFeatureProposals
[3:10pm] PeterThoeny: and
[3:10pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebChanges
[3:10pm] PeterThoeny: first one:
[3:10pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/AddCGIpmToTWikiCore
[3:11pm] PeterThoeny: this is still marked as "under investigation"
[3:11pm] HaraldJoerg: Ooops... I'll fix that
[3:11pm] PeterThoeny: i think this is complete, right?
[3:11pm] PeterThoeny: ok
[3:11pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ResponsiveTopMenuSkin
[3:12pm] PeterThoeny: also under investigation, should be acceoted bt 7 days feedback
[3:12pm] PeterThoeny: i'll fix that
[3:12pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SearchAttachmentsInAWeb
[3:13pm] PeterThoeny: this is also marked as under investigation and is aready done, i'll fix that
[3:14pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiPersonal
[3:14pm] PeterThoeny: looks good harald!
[3:14pm] PeterThoeny: it looks pretty complete now 
[3:14pm] HaraldJoerg: I did the uploads and renaming, and also a bit of bookkeeping with regard to the topics
[3:14pm] PeterThoeny: thank you!
[3:14pm] HaraldJoerg: Linux is trickier than I expected with regard to 32bit/64bit
[3:15pm] HaraldJoerg: For windows, building a 32bit TWiki should be sufficient
[3:15pm] PeterThoeny: yes
[3:16pm] PeterThoeny: so you plan to work on a linux distro?
[3:16pm] PeterThoeny: when i find time i'll try mac os-x
[3:16pm] HaraldJoerg: Sure, currently I am trying to get packtwp doing the right thing on linux
[3:17pm] PeterThoeny: ah
[3:17pm] HaraldJoerg: It needs "general" options, and "architecture specific" options
[3:17pm] HaraldJoerg: On Windows with Strawberry Perl, you simply pack the DLLs into the executable
[3:18pm] HaraldJoerg: On Linux, they are "assumed to be there" by Linux package management systems
[3:18pm] PeterThoeny: makes sense
[3:19pm] HaraldJoerg: The Linux options should work with Mac OS--X, too
[3:19pm] PeterThoeny: ok
[3:19pm] PeterThoeny: anything else on twiki personal, and on features in general?
[3:19pm] HaraldJoerg: Or at least, they should produce meaningful error messages 
[3:20pm] HaraldJoerg: I haven't worked on new features
[3:20pm] PeterThoeny: ---++ 2. Extensions
[3:20pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/WebChanges
[3:21pm] PeterThoeny: we have a new plugin:
[3:21pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/JiraRestPlugin
[3:21pm] PeterThoeny: i created this for a client
[3:21pm] HaraldJoerg: Nice
[3:21pm] PeterThoeny: it differs from the existing JiraPlugin
[3:22pm] PeterThoeny: the JiraPlugin displays jira data based on a JQL (jira query langiage) query in a twiki page
[3:22pm] PeterThoeny: the JiraRestPlugin can be used to query, create and update any content
[3:23pm] PeterThoeny: i will create a twiki app on top of this for a client
[3:23pm] HideyoImazu: i haven't looked into JiraRestPlugin, but any chance to combine the two?
[3:23pm] PeterThoeny: specifically, there is a requirements tracker with epics and stories
[3:24pm] PeterThoeny: i think they have different purpose, so no need to combine
[3:24pm] PeterThoeny: the jql is quick and easy to show jira data in twiki
[3:25pm] PeterThoeny: the rest approach is more involved, required proper json object to change/create content
[3:25pm] HideyoImazu: ok
[3:25pm] HaraldJoerg: Do you need special permissions on the Jira server to run REST requests?
[3:26pm] PeterThoeny: so i will create a twiki app layer on top of the jirarestplugin to select an epic, then by pressing 
a "create jira agile epic" button, it does several rest calls to create the epic and related stories in jira based on the 
data in the requirements tracker
[3:27pm] PeterThoeny: login is via basic auth, so whatever user logs in can do actions based on his/her permissions
[3:27pm] PeterThoeny: in jira
[3:29pm] PeterThoeny: you cal also define a default user in configure, e.g. if you want to create content as a specific 
user, such as "TWikiJira"
[3:30pm] PeterThoeny: "you can also"
[3:30pm] PeterThoeny: look at the query form,
[3:30pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/JiraRestQuery
[3:31pm] PeterThoeny: this is an interactive query form
[3:31pm] PeterThoeny: the result is a json object, it is put into a SetGetPlugin variable
[3:32pm] HaraldJoerg: I'm just a guest user on some Jira systems in our company, I don't know whether they want me to 
circumvent the "normal" user interface 
[3:32pm] PeterThoeny: so now it is eady to apply a filter to get some sub-object from the json object
[3:32pm] PeterThoeny: like: response.content.fields.description
[3:33pm] PeterThoeny: ah, the plugin currently only supports one jira server
[3:33pm] PeterThoeny: for a big company it likely needs to be enhanced to support multiple jira servers
[3:34pm] HaraldJoerg: So the server is declared in configure?
[3:34pm] PeterThoeny: yes
[3:35pm] PeterThoeny: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/CopyTopicTreePlugin
[3:35pm] PeterThoeny: enhacned to support auto-numbering of topics
[3:36pm] PeterThoeny: i needed that for a specific twiki app that has topics named like DID-0001 for base topic, and 
DID-0001-1234 for children
[3:37pm] PeterThoeny: so that with auto-numbering you get DID-0002 and DID-0002-1234 respectively
[3:38pm] PeterThoeny: some minor fixes and enhancements to some other extensions
[3:38pm] PeterThoeny: anything you'd like to cover on extensions?
[3:39pm] HideyoImazu: no
[3:39pm] PeterThoeny: ---++ 3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs
[3:39pm] PeterThoeny: http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/WebChanges
[3:40pm] PeterThoeny: http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item7668
[3:40pm] PeterThoeny: Item7668: ENCODE variable with new type="json" parameter to escape a string for JSON use
[3:40pm] PeterThoeny: i added this no-brainer feature to the core
[3:41pm] PeterThoeny: needed for twiki apps that want to send json objects via rest call to another server, like with 
the JiraRestPlugin
[3:42pm] PeterThoeny: thank you HideyoImazu-san for bug fixes
[3:42pm] HideyoImazu: np
[3:42pm] PeterThoeny: anything else on bugs?
[3:43pm] HaraldJoerg: Nope
[3:43pm] PeterThoeny: ---++ 4. Miscellaneous
[3:43pm] PeterThoeny: anything?
[3:43pm] HideyoImazu: no
[3:44pm] HaraldJoerg: No 2
[3:46pm] PeterThoeny: no 3
[3:46pm] PeterThoeny: ok, let's close the meeting early
[3:46pm] HideyoImazu: ttyl
[3:46pm] PeterThoeny: thank you HideyoImazu-san and HaraldJoerg!
[3:46pm] HaraldJoerg: Ok, ttyl!
[3:47pm] PeterThoeny: i'll post the logs and minutes
[3:47pm] PeterThoeny: ttyl
[3:48pm]  HaraldJoerg left the chat room.