New subject: ReactOS Urgent Meeting Minutes

21 Feb 2011


      ReactOS Urgent Meeting
Preamble
=========
The following people which are generally considered as ReactOS-related 
people have called for an urgent project meeting. They agree with the 
meeting agenda and the rules for this meeting:
* Giannis Adamopoulos
     * Johannes Anderwald
     * Maciej Białas
     * Aleksey Bragin
     * Colin Finck
     * Ziliang Guo
     * Kamil Hornicek
     * Amine Khaldi
     * Timo Kreuzer
     * Victor Martinez
     * Roel Messiant
     * Sylvain Petreolle
     * Pierre Schweitzer
     * Olaf Siejka
     * James Tabor
     * Art Yerkes
As we have not established any general rules for meetings yet, we 
consider these demands enough to justify the need for such an urgent 
meeting.
Based on the experiences Colin has from formal ReactOS Deutschland e.V. 
foundation meetings, we need at least a discussion leader and a minute 
taker to get an organized meeting done over IRC.
General Information
====================
     * Date and Time: Tuesday, 22nd February, 2011 - 20:00 UTC
     * Place: #reactos-meeting on Freenode
     * Meeting leader: Colin Finck
     * Minute taker: Amine Khaldi
     * Allowed Participants
       The following people are allowed to participate in the discussion
       on that channel. This list is taken from the people which were
       recently active on the #reactos-dev IRC channel. Others are not
       included as they don’t have a chance to know about the recent
       developments. If you consider yourself a ReactOS-related person,
       you may still ask Colin Finck to put you on this list. Apart from
       this, everybody may join as an observer.
           o Giannis Adamopoulos (smiley1_)
           o Johannes Anderwald (janderwald)
           o Maciej Białas (niski)
           o Aleksey Bragin (abragin)
           o Colin Finck (Colin_Finck)
           o Danny Götte (dangerground)
           o Ziliang Guo (ZWabbit)
           o Amine Khaldi (AmineKhaldi)
           o Timo Kreuzer (rosdude)
           o Matthias Kupfer (Collibri)
           o Victor Martinez (vicmarcal)
           o Roel Messiant (Mephisto)
           o Ged Murphy (GedMurphy)
           o Sylvain Petreolle (Usurp)
           o Daniel Reimer (dreimer)
           o Pierre Schweitzer (HeisSpiter)
           o Samuel Serapion (encoded)
           o Olaf Siejka (Caemyr)
           o James Tabor (jimtabor)
           o Art Yerkes (arty)
Meeting Agenda
===============
    1. Agree on a preliminary definition for the term "ReactOS Team
       Member".
       To create a basis for the next regular meeting, we need to know
       who may participate and who may not. As we need to focus on the
       release right now, this definition should only be preliminary and
       is subject to change in a future meeting.
       Some participants will present proposals for such a definition.
2. Establish regular meetings every month.
       This is the only chance to ensure discussions among a broad range
       of ReactOS Team members with binding decisions. These meetings
       should follow the rules of typical meetings, including meeting
       leaders and minute takers. In contrast to this meeting, all team
       members should be able to participate. Minutes should also be
       published on the website.
       Such regular meetings should begin after CLT2011 (after 20th
       March) due to the time it takes to prepare this event.
3. Set up binding 0.3.13 Release Plans.
       The CLT2011 event is a big PR chance for a new ReactOS release,
       so we should look forward to get a release ready by then. This
       point includes:
1. Getting information about the most annoying bugs and
             regressions.
             Victor Martinez and Olaf Siejka will report on this.
2. Building teams to care about each bug.
             As soon as a bug is fixed, a team has to report back about
             this to one of the release engineers. They will then add
             you to another team. Of course, you may also suggest stuff
             you want to work on afterwards.
3. Setting deadlines for the bugs.
             We need to determine what bugs can be realistically fixed
             in the given time. If a bug is not fixed by then, the
             appropriate team has to report back about this to one of
             the release engineers. They are then responsible for
             finding a solution.
We believe that other topics, especially the ones discussed in the 
"ReactOS Reaction" document should be covered in the first regular 
meeting, so that we can focus on 0.3.13 right now.