[BuildStream] Monthly irc team meeting minutes - Tuesday 19 Feb 2019

[Laurence Urhegyi <laurence urhegyi codethink co uk>]

Hi,

We just held the meeting.

Summary notes below, link to the wiki is here:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/BuildStream/Monthly-Meeting/20190219#preview

#topic: Removal of 1.2 from Debian Buster - 
https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream/issues/901
#summary: rough consensus now is that the project will make it clear 
we're not supporting 1.2 long-term and then leave it to the distro devs 
to decide for themselves, so we're closing the issue on gitlab
However, could we do a little more to announce our plans regarding what 
versions we will maintain and also the move to the new release cycle? 
make our position clear?
Position is:
(A) We are focusing on a new version of BuildStream which will not be 
backwards compatible with 1.x, and we don't know when that will stablize
(B) We are not investing in support of the existing 1.2 branch, patches 
welcome ?
#action: laurence to update the website and post to the list clearly 
outlining our position re support for bst versions and the new appraoch 
to 2.0 as a stable release
#action: tristan van berkom to write a blog post to the same effect
#action: jjardon to add to the README to the same effect

#topic:    Can we retire buildstream-notifications-list@ ?
#summary:  all agreed, yes
#action:   laurence to get the buildstream-notifications-list shut down

#topic: developers having the 'watch' notification set on gitlab
#summary: gitlab sends a lot of email notifications, should reduce this 
but improve quality of updates to encourage more developer engagement 
throughout the project
#action: laurence to have a look at gitlab and see if we can disable 
notifications on the project side rather than per user, to remove WIP MR 
notifications

#topic: Policy for closing MRs or making them WIP
#summary: we want as few MRs are possible, so for MRs that go stale, the 
rule of thumb policy should be to WIP a non-WIP after a month, and then 
close WIP after a month
#action: laurence to communicate this, update CONTRIBUTING and create a 
label for MRs that were closed due to lack of activity
maybe call it 'stale'

Thanks,
Laurence