August 13th, 2024 Developer Meeting

Date: 13 August 2024

Time: 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm Pacific

Location: #evergreen IRC channel on Libera

Action Items from Last Meeting

mmorgan will open a ticket for moving LP stats to community site & automating same
eeevil will open a bug for cross-column stats targets
gmcharlt - create a Git commit message type and update bug 2051946
redavis will look at making a regular calendar event for translation work in lock step with point releases
Dyrcona will look into git integration with POEditor
sandbergja, abneiman, redavis, and mmorgan will put out said point release
abneiman will review existing EOLI PRs for test plans
abneiman will add a discussion item for next meeting: test plans for big features

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Roadmap: Evergreen Development Roadmap
Maintenance releases 3.11.7, 3.12.5, 3.13.2 on July 19.
Merge Pause on Friday, August 16. Should be able to lift pause on Tuesday, August 20.
3.13.3 and 3.12.6 monthly maintenance releases on Wednesday, August 21.
Bug squash week for 3.14 release, August 26-30.

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DIG met on August 1
We are running our style guide through Vale to find errors in the docs. Images without alt tags was first–all fixed now! Next up is consistent word use for certain terms
Plans to work on docs bugs and especially reviewing older bugs during Bug Squashing Week
Next meeting, September 5

(Jane) How can we encourage more automated testing?
- What are current barriers to writing and running the automated tests?
- We have a requirement that "new code contributions must be submitted with test code", which is largely not being followed. Do we still want this policy or something like it?
Hatch extension 'may soon no longer be supported' Hatch Chrome Extension
DokuWiki needs updating
(ABN) Test plans for big features?