====== Developer meeting: November 29, 2010 ======

Tentatively to be held at:
  * 09:00:00 a.m. Monday November 29, 2010 in America/Los_Angeles
  * 12:00:00 p.m. Monday November 29, 2010 in Canada/Eastern
  * 04:00:00 p.m. Monday November 29, 2010 in UTC

Last meeting: [[dev:meetings:2010-11-16|2010-11-16]]

===== Agenda =====

Meeting takes place on [[http://evergreen-ils.org/chat.php|IRC]] on the #evergreen channel on Freenode. See the [[http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar|Calendar]] for specific dates and times.

===== Logs and minutes =====

  * (Will be added post-meeting)

===== Prior to the meeting =====
  * Please fill out [[community:irc_channel|Who's who]] if you want to be identified more readily in the future

===== Meeting =====

Times are rough guides to the expected amount of time to be spent on each agenda item.

Each item other than "introductions" should have a designated lead. Feel free to put your name down beside an item if you know the topic and can lead a coherent discussion on it!

  - Determine the taker of minutes: **Dan Scott** volunteered
  - Determine meeting leader: **Dan Wells** volunteered
  - (10 min) Review [[dev:meetings:2010-11-16:minutes|Action Items from previous meeting]]
    - 1.6 release support (discussed and appears 1.6.0.10 is the last 1.6.0.x)
      * If this is agreed upon, can we then publish a clearly written list of releases that are currently supported, with expected out-of-support dates or triggers? For example:
        * Currently supported: 1.6.1.4, 1.6.0.10, 1.4.0.7(!?)
        * (ca. January 2011) When 2.0 is released, support for 1.4.0.7 and 1.6.0.10 will be dropped, leaving 1.6.1.x and 2.0.x as the active branches
        * (ca. April 2011) When 2.1.0 is released, support for 2.0.x will be dropped, leaving 1.6.1.x and 2.1.x as the active branches
      * **ACTION** Dan Scott to create a draft page and request feedback
    - Bill Erickson to report on release of KCLS OPAC skin.
      * Deferred to next meeting.
    - Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley & Dan Wells to review serials documentation.
      * Lebbeous plans to create a document early this week that follows the route through the alternate serials control view with screenshots. Screenshots are taken, writing is happening now.
      * **ACTION** Lebbeous to post link to serials document when it is ready.  **[[acq:serials:alternate_controls_tutorial|And here it is!]]**
    - Ben Shum to report on potential IE crash using 2.0 Beta OPAC.
      * Ben Shum has opened a bug ticket on this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/676530
      * Issue seems resolved with 2.0 Beta3 testing
      * **ACTION** Dan Wells reported seeing IE crash with his 1.6 catalog, he will test with the beta catalog
  - (10 min) 2.0 beta status? List of [[https://launchpad.net/evergreen/+milestone/2.0beta4|bugs targeted to the beta4 release]]
    * Ben Shum reported two 1.6.1-2.0 upgrade script problems in beta 3
      * Dan Scott resolved these and hopes the shiny new 1.6.1.4 VM will be of use to help test the upgrade script in the future
    * Jason Etheridge backported a fix to 2.0 for [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677628|spine label printing]] that Dan Scott had tested on Linux, but wasn't able to confirm resulted in successfully printing labels on Windows; it did at least solve the utter breakage that existed pre-patch
    * **ACTION** Dan Scott volunteered to tackle [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680575|unexpected payload]] bug
  - (2 min) (tsbere) Patch [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/677074|Dynamic weighting for INDB Matchpoints]] needs review
    * Mike Rylander plans to review as soon as 2.0 RC1 is cut, and added a comment to that effect to the bug
    * Dan Scott added a 2.1 release series to Launchpad so that the bug/patch could be targeted to that series
  - (5 min) (Dan Scott) Bug tracking
    * https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen lists 106 open bugs; some of these have "Fix committed" that might be able to be set to "Fix released", would be eased if they were tied to a specific milestone
    * It's not clear how much attention is being paid to these by the development team
      * James Fournie has done some major status cleanup in the past
      * Some of the core committers occasionally pay attention to specific bugs, particularly for 2.0
      * But there are bugs that are older than one year that haven't had follow-up; the growing number of open bugs sends a message that filing a bug might not be an effective way of getting a problem resolved
    * **ACTION** Jason Stephenson offered to go through the list of "Fix Committed" bugs and change those that were tied to an actual release to "Fix Released"
    * Suggestions:
      * Schedule a bug-squashing day to confirm, categorize (e.g. tie to specific milestones, set priorities), and actually address and close bugs - post 2.0?
        * **ACTION** Dan Scott will post a call to the -devel list for a bug-squashing day tied to beta4 release
      * Call for a head bug wrangler to help coordinate QA efforts like bug-squashing days, triaging bugs, generating patches, etc?
        * **OPPORTUNITY** There was general support for the idea, but no volunteers were pushed forward
  - (2 min) (Dan Scott) Downloads page has several "coming soon" or "needs writing" claims about release notes, but without a person's name beside them, those are lies. Any volunteers for the following?
    * Evergreen 1.6.1.4 release notes: **ACTION** Mike Rylander volunteered to write these
    * OpenSRF 1.6.1 release notes: **ACTION** Dan Scott volunteered to write these
    * OpenSRF 1.2.3 release notes: **ACTION** Deprecate the OpenSRF 1.2 series (Dan Scott will roll this into the "Evergreen supported releases" document)
    * OpenSRF 1.0.7 release notes: **ACTION** Deprecate the OpenSRF 1.0 series (Dan Scott will roll this into the "Evergreen supported releases" document)
  - (1 min) (Dan Scott) OpenSRF 1.6.2 release
    * Dan will create this soon to resolve some difficulties installing prereqs and get Bill Erickson's select()-interruption patch out there
  - (1 min) (Dan Scott) OpenSRF 2.0 beta 2 release
    * Bill Erickson has some more patches to commit for 2.0; Dan will roll a beta 2 when Bill gives him the thumbs up
    * **OPPORTUNITY** We need someone to implement proper [[http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html|library versioning using autotools]]
  - (2 min) Schedule next meeting
    * Tentatively, every Tuesday for the next 8 weeks at the same time (12:00 EST, 9:00 PST)

===== Post-meeting =====
  - Scrape together minutes