Re: Minutes of the meeting (2006-07-21)

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

I thought I left r-t for all except 'I'll skim the mailing list'
purposes, like, ages ago? :)

On 7/22/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Here are the minutes from yesterday's meeting.
>
> Feel free to slap me for errors :-)
>
> Attendance:
> ===========
>  Frédéric Crozat
>  Jeff Waugh
>  Federico Mena-Quintero
>  John Palmieri
>  Elijah Newren
>  Vincent Untz
>
> Missing:
> ========
>  Kjartan Maraas
>  Luis Villa
>
> Agenda:
> =======
>
>   + new modules decision
>   + accepting gtk# apps in the desktop (related to first item)
>   + getting new people in the team? (if some of us want to leave)
>   + will the subversion migration (if it goes forward before 2.16)
>     mess up the release schedule?
>   + do we have anyone on the line for writing release notes?
>   + http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks is out of date at
>     least as far as people to task matching.  Do we want to try to
>     re-divide things up?
>
> New modules decision:
> =====================
>
>   + orca
>     => full support from the community, even from the gnopernicus
>        maintainers
>     => we have to encourage orca people to make the migration as smooth
>        as possible (and they're willing to do so)
>     => IN
>     => it probably means we dump gnopernicus
>
>   + alacarte
>     => users like it
>     => some distributions (will) ship it
>     => gsimple-menu-editor is far too simple
>     => no issue with this module
>     => we need to patch the apps to make use of it (gnome-panel patch
>        available)
>     => IN
>
>   + gnome-power-manager
>     => positive consensus
>     => IN
>
>   + gtk# (for the bindings suite)
>     => positive consensus
>     => need to split API/ABI (stable vs unstable) (think gnome-python,
>        gnome-python-desktop)
>     => IN if it can be splitted (or without splitting if there are solid
>        concerns about doing so)
>
>   + tomboy
>     => we don't consider the use of gtk# in desktop for now
>     => positive consensus
>     => some issue wrt duplication with and/or import from sticky notes
>     => Jeff proposes something else: don't accept it because it's cool
>        and we want to encourage an outside ecosystem
>     => Vincent disagrees about taking such a decision without knowing
>        what the community thinks about it
>     => decision: let Jeff send a mail about it, look what Alex thinks
>        about it and see if there's a new consensus
>
> Accepting gtk# apps in the desktop:
> ===================================
> Was not debated because of the tomboy decision and lack of time.
>
> Subversion migration:
> =====================
> It might be an issue if it takes a long time (blocking releases, eg).
> Jeff wants to push for postponing the migration to after 2.16, so this
> would not be an issue.
>
> Getting new people:
> ===================
> Luis will probably want to leave the team. We need to ping him so he
> finds a new member.
> Anybody else wanting to leave?
>
> Writing release notes:
> ======================
> We'll find someone by mail.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks
> ============================================
> Feeling that it will never be uptodate. But we can try updating it :-)
>
> Vincent
>
> --
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>
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