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

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

• • 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
    \[<http://marc.info/?t=119308653300001&r=1&w=4>|"Removing
    functions"\] 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*
    

[1] Need to tackle this properly (rstory)

• 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