Date

29 April 2010

In Attendance

• Lorinne Banister
• Paul Biondich
• Pascal Brandt
• Ryan Crichton
• Cristian Chircu
• Michael Downey
• Dave Eaves
• Ruwan B. Egodawatte
• Hamish Fraser
• Malte Friese
• Daniel Futerman
• Mark Goodrich
• Sy Haas
• Darius Jazayeri
• Jeremy Keiper
• Rafal Korytkowski
• Katherine Kuan
• Wyclif Luyima
• Kenny MacDonald
• Pratik Mandrekar
• Burke Mamlin
• Glen McCallum
• Justin Miranda
• Wayne Naidoo
• Firzhan Naqash
• Umashanthi Pavalanathan
• Zeshan Rajput
• Win Ribeka
• Shazin Sadakath
• Dawn Smith
• Ben Wolfe

Agenda

• Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)
• Introduce GSoC 2010 students (20 min)
• Decide on definitions for ticket priorities (15 min)
  • See proposed definitions
• Discuss adopting Checkstyle (30 min)
  • See #2285 and proposed coding style conventions
• Messaging Module project update (5 min)
• Review targets for 1.7 and 1.8 (15 min)
• After-action review & next week's agenda (5 min)

Minutes

Ticket priorities

• Burke described the current ticket priorities in use.
• We should try to differentiate between complexity and severity/urgency.
• We will go with what's listed on the wiki page and iterate based on feedback, and revisit this topic in future weeks.

Use of Checkstyle to enforce coding style

• Burke suggested several things that Checkstyle could be used to look for when people are checking in code.

Messaging Module project update

• Updates will be 2 weeks moving forward to match their 2-week release cycle.
• InSTEDD is contributing more developers to the project, and other volunteers in the community have stepped forward.
• The team is evaluating short codes and microsyntax, e.g. OMHE.
• Alpha release should be within a month. The team is looking for implementations interested in testing the module.
• In the next cycle: UI refinements, messaging platforms will be implemented, API will be fully in place.

Targets for 1.7 and 1.8

• Sy sent out an e-mail yesterday about unassigned tickets. Thanks to volunteers – but more are needed!
• We need to end conversations about new features for 1.7.
• Several of the minor tickets were picked up to be included in 1.7. The ones that aren't assigned need a volunteer, or they will be deferred.
  • GSoC students are encouraged to take an unassigned ticket for 1.7 to work on before GSoC begins.
  • Anything without an owner during next Thursday's meeting will be pushed out of 1.7.
• Projected date (very subject to change) for alpha release: July 1

Transcripts

• Backchannel IRC transcript
• Audio recording of the call: Listen online or download