Minutes of TWiki Kampala Release Meeting, 2017-09-21

Logistics, Participants, IRC log

• Date: Thursday, 2017-09-21 22:00 GMT (Convert to your time zone)
• Location: TWiki IRC channel #twiki_release on Freenode IRC (web-based IRC)

• Previous release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2017x09x07
• Next release meeting: KampalaReleaseMeeting2017x10x05

• Log of IRC meeting: KampalaMeetingLog-2017-09-21.txt

• Participants
  • PeterThoeny ( PeterThoeny )
  • HideyoImazu ( himazu )
  • HaraldJoerg ( HaraldJoerg )
  • BasabBijoy ( BasabBijoy )
  • TimotheLitt ( timothe )
  • JamesMacdonell ( jmacdone )
  • DipuDeshmukh ( dipu )
  • SteveCooper ( SteveCooper )
  • ImonDeshmukh ( Khan__ )
  • JonForrest ( nobozo_ )
  • VickiBrown ( Vicki )
  • MichaelGulitz ( MichaelGulitz )
  • MichaelSevero ( msevero )
  • MahiroAndo ( MahiroAndo )
  • YaojunFei ( YaojunFei )
  • ThomasGutzmann ( ThomasGutzmann )
  • PeterJones ( PeterJones)
  • RichMorin ( Vicki )
  • IanKluft ( ko6yq-lt )
• Facilitated by PeterThoeny
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

1. Feature Requests for Kampala Release

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

• TWikiOnRaspberryPi - by Harald
  • Now as a service

2. Extensions

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

• EmbeddedJSPlugin - by Ando-san
  • Now with nice docs

• IfThenActionPlugin - by PTh
  • New then-action: setpreference, useful to define access control in a twiki form

3. Review Urgent and Not So Urgent Bugs

• Desired outcome: Identify must fixes
• See TWikibug:WebChanges, TWikibug:ReleaseBlocker and TWikibug:DetailedItemsQuery

• Skipped

4. TWiki Release Discussion

• Desired outcome: Scope of additional work needed for new release

• Decided to raise Perl requirement from 5.8 to 5.10.1
  • Centos 7.3 ships with perl 5.16
  • Centos 6.6. ships with perl 5.10.1

• Release latest by end of year

5. Miscellaneous

• Still send mail issue due to spam issue
  • PTh to follow up with ISP

• No commit diff e-mail due to send mail issue, and no web-based diff
  • Hideyo-san to look into Trac

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