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