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