Re: [ros-dev] February 2012 Meeting Minutes

[Andrew Faulds]

Yes, that is a very quick turnaround. But if we could get a faster
release cycle (not THIS fast), it would be better for ROS.

On 24 February 2012 17:18, Zachary Gorden <drakekaizer666(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   A note of caution, regardless of the vote for 0.3.15,
> it is entirely
>  possible, even likely from the perspective of several of us, that the
>  state of ROS trunk will preclude the ability to roll out a 0.3.15.
>  We're talking about a 3 week, more likely 2 week, turnaround, which is
>  absurdly if we wanted to do genuine regression testing and fixing.
>
>  On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> >   Good! Let's proceed with 0.3.15... a faster
> > release cycle is better,
> >  and will help interest in ROS as people will be able to see clearly
> >  that progress is being made (as opposed to appearing to be stagnant to
> >  those who do not look at trunk).
> >  Plus, I want a "stable" release to try some new features ;P
> >
> >  On 24 February 2012 11:49, Amine Khaldi <amine.khaldi(a)reactos.org> wrote:
> > >   February 2012 Meeting Minutes
> > >
> > >  2012-02-23
> > >  19:45 UTC
> > >  Fezile, #meeting
> > >
> > >  Proceedings
> > >  ===========
> > >  * Meeting started at 19:45 UTC by Aleksey Bragin.
> > >
> > >  * Point 1: Release status: 0.3.15
> > >  ---------------------------------
> > >  * Aleksey Bragin proposed that we prepare trunk and release 0.3.15, as it is
> > >  now, before anything major happens. Several members then wondered about the
> > >  status of USB and the "mshtml bug". Jerome Gardou explained a bit about how
> > >  the mshtml bug is far from completely being fixed, because if you look at
> > >  testbot's results, there are still some problems with ASSERTs hit and some
> > >  bad pagefaults happening when paging out.
> > >  * A lengthy discussion occurred, about how ready trunk is, whether it's in a
> > >  better state than 0.3.14, the state of the theme to be bundled with ros, the
> > >  plan for CLT, whether we should go 0.4<something> or 0.3.15... This was
> > >  settled through a voting: "Do you agree to release 0.3.15 with current trunk
> > >  features, before CLT?".
> > >  * The total number of votes was 21, with 11 votes as Yes, 5 as No, and 5
> > >  abstentions. As a result, we will be having a 0.3.15 release with CLT being
> > >  the deadline.
> > >
> > >  * Point 2: New website status and migration plans
> > >  -------------------------------------------------
> > >  * Amine Khaldi gave a quick summary on the state of the website revamp:
> > >    - Quite some progress has been made in the theming department, and it's
> > >  visible from the playground. It's starting to look a lot like the current
> > >  one, which means it's almost done (only some issues are left).
> > >    - Maciej Bialas has been investigating how to import users from the
> > >  RosCMS. We will most likely need to compromise: members will have to reenter
> > >  passwords when we migrate, but we'll see.
> > >    - Amine Khaldi then mentioned that we need help from web devs familiar
> > >  with Drupal. Alexander Rechitskiy mentioned that he has a guy that wants to
> > >  be part of the web team, and he passes his info to Amine to establish the
> > >  contact.
> > >    - He also mentioned that Maciej is very busy, so the progress will slow
> > >  down, and that the current short term plan is to continue the theming work,
> > >  provide a way to import users, import the rest of data from
> > >  wiki/bugzilla...etc and finally add the phpbb bridge.
> > >  * He then summarized the summary by saying: We needs skillful drupal guys,
> > >  we're almost there, and that's it.
> > >
> > >  * Point 3: CMake migration and finally abandoning RBuild
> > >  --------------------------------------------------------
> > >  * Amine Khaldi suggested that it's time to ditch rbuild, as he suspects most
> > >  of our members have migrated already. Agreement on that, from ours members,
> > >  was unprecedented as *everyone* were on favor of this :)
> > >  * We agreed on doing the necessary commits/infrastructure changes ASAP, ie
> > >  "tonight" (relative to the meeting of course), but that didn't happen just
> > >  yet so it's just a matter of time. Amine Khaldi wants to do the honors (the
> > >  commit that will remove rbuild and its related files).
> > >  * Amine Khaldi also mentioned that he's preparing a nice little surprise for
> > >  major build performance boost, on many levels, so stay tuned guys ;)
> > >  * Jerome Gardou explained that he'll be handling the PCH support to get it
> > >  to a much better state than it is right now.
> > >
> > >  * Point 4: Added per Amine Khaldi's request: GSoC preparations
> > >  --------------------------------------------------------------
> > >  * Amine Khaldi explained that he created a Google Doc and invited the
> > >  interested members. He asked the members to collaborate and shape up an
> > >  excellent ideas list, projects that fit in GSoC at both the time and
> > >  complexity levels.
> > >  * Colin suggested building up on the last year in terms of informative
> > >  content (wiki pages from last year), covering questions about how we deal
> > >  with students, our application form... etc.
> > >
> > >  * Meeting closed at 21:45 UTC by Aleksey Bragin.
> > >  * Minutes written by Amine Khaldi.
> > >
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