February 12, 2014 Developers Meeting

• 11:00:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 12, 2014 in America/Los_Angeles
• 2:00:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 12, 2014 in Canada/Eastern
• 19:00:00 Wednesday, February 12, 2014 in UTC

• Minutes: http://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2014/evergreen.2014-02-12-14.06.html
• Minutes (text): http://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2014/evergreen.2014-02-12-14.06.txt
• Log: http://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2014/evergreen.2014-02-12-14.06.log.html

• bshum to summarize bug tracking based on feedback from developers
  • Status: Deferring, will do this at the conference if we run out of time
• gmcharlt to cut OpenSRF 2.3-beta next week
  • Status: ?
• eeevil to publish detailed plan about freezing baseline schemas between EG releases and using deprecates/supersedes in database upgrade scripts. This will go on the mailing list and the thread should structure further discussion of pros and cons of eeevil's plan.
  • Status: ?
• dbwells to review bug 1242999
  • Status: Reviewed and committed to master, will backport for 2.5.3. Opinions wanted on backporting to 2.4.
• bshum to fix up the 2.4.5 and set 2.4.6 milestones in LP
  • Status: Done, though I need to go through and update the bug statuses to "fix released" for things that are done.
• dbs will write up the release notes as promises in bug # 1261939 for per-library TPAC pages
  • Status: Done via http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=46f49173b6a08f4c7b755de728edbe6bafb9879a
• bshum to set new calendar entries for 2.6 milestone events and give access to dbwells to dev calendar.
  • Status: Gave dbwells access to dev calendar, did not add milestone events yet.
• bill to open opensrf LP websocket ticket with current info
  • Status: Ticket opened : https://bugs.launchpad.net/opensrf/+bug/1268619

Deadline for GSoC organization applications is February 14, 2014. Are we going to apply this year? (Better question: do we have willing and able mentors this year?)

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1. PostgreSQL 9.3 support
   • There are several aspects of PostgreSQL 9.3 that break Evergreen:
     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1253163 (authority indexes can fail on Postgres 9.3.0)
     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1277731 (Stricter column/table alias handling breaks hold test functions)
     • Stricter type handling in function arguments (INTs no longer automatically coerced to TEXTs) breaks STRING_AGG() in a few places, possibly other functions - not sure this is bugged yet
     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1243023 (XPATH() changed behaviour between 9.1 and 9.2) - this breaks 9.2 as well, for what it's worth
   • Should we make PostgreSQL 9.3 support a release blocker for Evergreen 2.6 to avoid accumulating too much technical deficit / causing too much pain for those who aren't aware of the 9.3 problems?
     • And obviously we need pgTAP tests to ensure that we get the expected behaviour from 9.1 through 9.3 (and beyond)
2. Evergreen Hackfest Plans
   • Time to start a wiki page like previous years to start getting ideas together?
   • Example wiki page from 2013 Hackfest - http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:hackfest:eg2013