Developer meeting: January 25, 2011

Held at:

• 09:00:00 a.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles
• 12:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in Canada/Eastern
• 04:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in UTC

Last meeting: 2011-01-18

Meeting takes place on IRC on the #evergreen channel on Freenode. See the Calendar for specific dates and times.

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1. Determine the taker of minutes: Dan Scott
2. Determine meeting leader: Mike Rylander
3. (10 min) Review Action Items from previous meeting
   1. Dan Scott to continue working on his action items from previous meetings:
      1. Write release notes for OpenSRF 1.6.2
         • STATUS: Deferred
   2. Mike Rylander to write release notes for Evergreen 1.6.1.5
      • STATUS: Deferred
   3. Mike Rylander to have ESI setup the Security Mailing List
      • STATUS: Done
      • ACTION: Dan Scott to provide some verbiage about the Security Mailing list on the mailing list page.
   4. Ben Shum to begin the release coordination team by organizing contact information for all volunteers involved with the release checklist positions.
      • STATUS: Names have been added to a release team area on the release checklist page. Contact info forthcoming.
      • We will use the open-ils-general mailing list for coordination with a 'RELEASE TEAM: ' subject prefix until such time as the Release Coordination list can be set up by GPLS.
   5. James Fournie / SITKA to test 2.0 and report back
      • STATUS: Deferred
   6. Anoop Atre to setup a post-2.0 development wiki page to summarize ideas/discussions.
      • STATUS: Deferred
      • By request of Anoop Atre and Ben Shum, Dan Scott pointed at a mini-tutorial about how Evergreen wiki namespaces work.
4. Evergreen release status:
   1. 1.6.1.x (current release = 1.6.1.6)
      1. Bugs targeted to 1.6.1.7
         • Decision: Cut 1.6.1.7 after the handle_checkin_backdate change has been validated and committed.
         • ACTION: Bill Erickson and Dan Wells volunteered to look at the handle_checkin_backdate bug.
   2. 2.0
      1. Bugs targeted to RC4
      2. Gold release?
         • Decision: Cut 2.0.0 after the handle_checkin_backdate change has been validated and committed, and after dbwells debugs some of the typos that dbs committed in some i18n work the previous night.
   3. Most recently reported bugs
      • Recommendation: Process for bugs:
        1. When a bug is reported, review and apply a series target for it
        2. When someone takes ownership of the bug, set a milestone target once a probable fix and appropriate timeline has been identified
   4. General news
      • Dan Scott has been working on a continuous integration server using buildbot, focusing on OpenSRF to begin with
5. (2 min) Schedule next meeting
   • Tuesday, February 1st at 12:00 EST, 9:00 PST