#mahara-dev Meeting

Meeting started by richardm at 19:31:40 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Meeting attendees (richardm, 19:31:47)
    1. richardm is Richard Mansfield, Catalyst, NZ (richardm, 19:31:55)
    2. dobedobedoh is Andrew Nicols - LUNS Ltd, UK (dobedobedoh, 19:32:09)
    3. hughdavenport is Hugh Davenport, Catalyst IT, NZ (hugh_home, 19:32:11)
    4. pxh is Piers Harding, Catalyst, NZ (pxh, 19:32:12)
    5. dan_p is Dan Poltawski - LUNS Ltd, UK (dan_p, 19:32:15)
    6. rkabalin is Ruslan Kabalin, LUNS Ltd., UK (rkabalin_, 19:32:17)
    7. dajan is Dominique-Alain from Switzerland (dajan, 19:32:20)
    8. anzeljg is Gregor An�elj, developer and translator (anzeljg, 19:32:24)
    9. anitsirk is Kristina Hoeppner from Catalyst IT, Wellington, NZ (anitsirk, 19:32:40)

  2. Items from previous meeting (richardm, 19:33:12)
    1. dan_p LUNS to investigate adding a new mahara integration project to run selenium tests (richardm, 19:33:22)
    2. dobedobedoh to look at modifying release & test running scripts to look for tests in the right places (richardm, 19:39:39)
    3. ACTION: dobedobedoh to create a bug for modifying release & test running scripts to look for tests in the right places (richardm, 19:41:47)

  3. Starting the discussion about a possible date / month for the Mahara 1.5 release (Kristina) (richardm, 19:42:12)
    1. IDEA: I just wanted to start the discussion about the release date as we are getting close to the end of 2011 and more and more people ask about Mahara 1.5 and soon will ask about when it's going to be released. As most of our user base is in the northern hemisphere, I'd like to see a release date in late spring so that the edu sector can upgrade over the northern hemispheric summer as that seems to be the best and for many only time to upgra (anitsirk, 19:42:25)
    2. votes for freeze dates: Dec: 3, Jan: 3, Feb: 1, Mar: 3, Apr: 2 (richardm, 20:03:45)

  4. Handling security issues (Francois) (richardm, 20:06:18)
    1. click the security checkbox when reporting a security issue on the tracker (richardm, 20:08:05)
    2. patches should go as attachments on that private bug instead of gerrit (richardm, 20:08:15)
    3. don't discuss it on IRC, the forums, etc. just email security@mahara.org (richardm, 20:08:55)
    4. ACTION: dobedobedoh to look at the possibility of adding a hook to the Makefile to reject patches with security bugs in the subject (richardm, 20:13:08)

  5. Future possibilities for flexible page designs - layouts and themes (Mike Kelly) (richardm, 20:13:57)
    1. waawaamilk reckons we should go for absolute positioning for all objects, it's the way of the future (richardm, 20:17:19)
    2. http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=3925 (rkabalin_, 20:20:07)
    3. mikekelly_ will put together a test instance with rows in views, or absolute positioning of all blocks, if he gets time (richardm, 20:26:59)
    4. anzeljg is extending custom skins with Google Web Fonts (richardm, 20:29:10)
    5. everyone wants more flexible page layouts in mahara! (richardm, 20:34:22)

  6. Request for development docs (Dajan) (richardm, 20:39:26)
    1. it would be useful to have up to date docs to talk to conference participants, but current info is unstructured & difficult to assemble (richardm, 20:42:29)
    2. IDEA: by fmarier_ : link to a list of upcoming features (constantly updated release notes) in the quarterly newsletter to keep community informed about these (anitsirk, 20:48:10)
    3. we'll try tagging all bugs that should go in the release notes (richardm, 20:56:22)
    4. dajan to start adding feature tags to bugs in the 1.5 milestone (richardm, 21:04:04)
    5. everyone to start adding feature tags when setting bugs to fix committed (when it's a feature) (richardm, 21:04:29)
    6. ACTION: dajan to report on tagging existing 1.5 features on the tracker (richardm, 21:06:44)

  7. Next meeting and chair (richardm, 21:06:53)
    1. IDEA: Wednesday 7th December @ 07:30 UTC (07:30 GMT/20:30 NZDT) (richardm, 21:07:05)
    2. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20111207T0730 (richardm, 21:07:06)
    3. hugh_home to chair the next meeting (richardm, 21:07:37)
    4. IDEA: Tuesday 6th December @ 07:30 UTC (07:30 GMT/20:30 NZDT) (richardm, 21:08:25)
    5. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20111206T0730 (fmarier_, 21:09:58)
    6. next meeting will be Tuesday 6th December @ 07:30 UTC, chaired by hugh_home (richardm, 21:11:16)

  8. Any other business (richardm, 21:12:01)


Meeting ended at 21:18:13 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. dobedobedoh to create a bug for modifying release & test running scripts to look for tests in the right places
  2. dobedobedoh to look at the possibility of adding a hook to the Makefile to reject patches with security bugs in the subject
  3. dajan to report on tagging existing 1.5 features on the tracker


Action items, by person

  1. dajan
    1. dajan to report on tagging existing 1.5 features on the tracker
  2. dobedobedoh
    1. dobedobedoh to create a bug for modifying release & test running scripts to look for tests in the right places
    2. dobedobedoh to look at the possibility of adding a hook to the Makefile to reject patches with security bugs in the subject


People present (lines said)

  1. richardm (108)
  2. fmarier_ (83)
  3. anitsirk (50)
  4. dajan (46)
  5. dobedobedoh (28)
  6. hugh_home (27)
  7. mikekelly_ (26)
  8. waawaamilk (25)
  9. dan_p (19)
  10. pxh (13)
  11. anzeljg (12)
  12. rkabalin_ (8)
  13. _anzeljg_ (7)
  14. maharameet (6)
  15. alberto (4)
  16. elky (1)


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