2010-08-17

This is the agenda and summary for the weekly Zope developer meeting of Tuesday, 2010-08-17 on #zope@irc.freenode.org from 15:00 to 15:30 UTC.

Summary

The IRC log is available here:

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Attendees

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Agenda

• Upcoming bug day
• Reduce noise from test runs (try getting to a green bar)
• How to choose topics

Ongoing issues

Those issues are currently ongoing. We don’t have to discuss them. We just need to follow up on them eventually.

• Abandoned projects (Tres)

• Meta

  • Review meeting itself, maybe add extra 15 minutes for “meta” once a month or every two months? (postponed until 2010-06-01)
  • How to organize open issues in the long run (Blueprints? Other tool? Continue text files?)

• ZTK status

  • Towards a ZTK release

    • Documentation
    • Release scope

• Test runners / nightly builds

  • Supporting Python 2.7

    • Needs help from the buildbots

  • Windows

    • Compiler licenses (Tres, postponed until after 2010-06-14)

• Documentation

  • Consolidate “floating” documentation into Sphinx/docs.zope.org

    • Write blueprint for the consolidation effort (Theuni) see https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/zopetoolkit-project/+spec/consolidate-documentation
    • Find candidate links and gather them centrally
    • Edit/update the documentation from the link list and land in Sphinx-style during a sprint

  • Turn ZTK package documentation into sphinx style (like zope.event)

    • write bug and assign to toolkit projects (Theuni)

  • Unified index?

• Releases

  • How to find a good point when to cut a new release for a package for which fixed bugs where registered (or changes have been made)? Any automation possible to alert us when changes have been sitting around unreleased for a while?

Topic proposals

• Chris McDonough: Pondering some (re-)structuring of the ZTK to allow for better maintenance/release management/communication/marketing.
• Christian Theune: I’d like us to ponder how we can (in addition to the housekeeping and cleanups we do) also move to do constructive work together to expand the stuff that Zope packages (ZTK) is about. How do we go about implementing new technologies together, like supporting HTML 5 in the various parts? I’d like to start putting in new code in the foreseeable future in the zope.* namespace.