====== Summary of discussion ======


  * Release manager nominations & setting election date
    * Jason Stephenson to email a call for nominations to the list
    * Election to be scheduled for 28 May
  * Release maintainers
    * Bill volunteered to continue as 2.8 release maintainer
    * For 2.7 release maintainer, we'reconsidering an experiment where Yamil Suarez servicesas a non-committer RMaint
      * Jason Stephenson agreed to assist
      * Galen can also assist when dealing with security releases
  * Developer update at the Evergreen Conference
    * Bill Erickson volunteered to prepare slides
    * Topics
      * new things in 2.8
      * numbers of committers & commits
      * security releases
      * documentation update
  * Web staff client update at the Evergreen Conference
    * Web client update slides by Galen
    * What got in 2.7 and 2.8
    * Sprint 2 progress
    * Upcoming for sprint 3
    * Patron editor Angular-ization
    * Day of Quacking
  * Release schedules
    * Ben Shum proposed taking advantage of the past two years' experience and writing out release schedules in more detail, e.g., including beta dates
    * Ben and BIll to draft a template schedule that incoming RMs can adopt
  * Cherry-picking vs merging
    * Jeff Godin suggested that we consider using git merge --no-ff for master rather than cherry-picking from working branches
    * Committers would sign off on the merge commits; the merge commits could also be used to store test plans
    * There was general agreement that this is worth trying
    * Jeff will send a proposal open-ils-dev
    * (also, we'll need to fix the pinesol Git plugin to handle merge commits properly)
  * Testing days
    * Liam Whalen will organize the first one, which will focus on SQL tests
  * Per Kathy Lussier, the next Bug Squashing Day will be in June