Notes20071114

This is the meeting minutes and agenda for the Meeting on 2007-11-14.

Date and Time: November 14th 21:00 UTC?

Agenda:

• Next meeting date (Wes)

  December 11th

• status reports
  • 5.3.2 (TrogL)

    [Not present]

  • user support load
    • wiki answer categories and mail documentation system (Wes)
      • general consensus: good, but may be harder when it gets larger
      • needed: good answer and tutorial mixing
      • (13:05:37) hardaker: the difference between a good answer, a faq answer and a tutorial answer is only how you get there. The user needs the information and currently has 3 places to look for it (which is bad). A good category hierarchy should let them get there without knowing which section it's in.
      • dts12 will put something in place

<tasks> [2] Extend categorisation to Tutorials/FAQ (dts12) </tasks>

• • makerelease (Wes)

    Active as an S/F project, and in use on other packages

    Adopt for the next release (post 5.3.2)

  • lmsensors rewrite (dave)

    Done - awaiting reactions

  • coverity (Wes)

    No progress

• Coding issues
  • instance handler API (Magnus)

    See thread "Removing functions" in coders (22/23 Oct)

    Keep existing registration calls

    Mark internal handlers as deprecated for 5.5 - consider dropping them for 5.6

  • multiple 5.4.1 container-related crash reports: roadmap to solution?

    No report

<tasks> [1] Need to tackle this properly (rstory) </tasks>

• next release? (rstory)
  • 5.2.5?

    • Pause after 5.3.2 is out, to allow the application of outstanding bug fixes.

      Then look to release 5.2.5 over Christmas/New Year.

      Ideally in parallel with a blitz on the bug tracker, ready for addressing 5.4.2 in early 2008