[maemo-community] [maemo2midgard] Minutes of maemo web monthly meeting, 13/5/2008

[From: Quim Gil]

Good!

After the little correction, I think it's worth forwarding this to
maemo-developers and maemo-users (separate emails, not crossposting) as
a starting point explaining how maemo.org development works and an
invitation to get involved.



ext Dave Neary wrote:
> ## Present:
> 
> * Quim Gil - Nokia
> * Eero Tamminen - Nokia
> * Marcell Lengyel - Nokia
> * Emilia Hjelm - Nemein
> * Janne Antola - Nemein
> * André Klapper - Openismus
> * Karsten Bräckelmann - Openismus
> * Niels Breet
> * Dave Neary
> 
> (sorry, I missed the role-call, please fill in if I missed you)
> 
> ## Agenda:
> 
> * Introductions
> * Review of status of April sprint actions
> * Review of proposals for May sprint
> * Review of high and medium priority bugs against website product
> 
> ## Introductions
> 
> New arrivals André, Karsten, Emilia, Janne and Dave introduced themselves.
> 
> ## Review of status of April sprint actions
> 
> Conserved for posterity in
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?April2008Sprint&id=106&type=g
> 
> The following tasks were completed:
> 
> * Full news content - Henri - **done**
> * maemo extras + extras-devel: a beta published. - Niels **done**
> * Agree ServerInfraPlan with ISP. Eero **done**
> * MediaWiki: fresh install + maemo logo + PAM login - Ferenc **done**
> ** There is a shiny new Mediawiki install which will be available soon
> at https://wiki.maemo.org/index.php
> 
> The following tasks are ongoing:
> 
> * Clean old documentation bugs - Jarmo - Handled by Dave, some **done**,
> others move to May
> * Implement GForgeUpgradePlan - Ferenc started, but will be done in May
> Sprint
> 
> Of 35 High priority bugs which were open at the start of the month,
> there are now 23.
> 
> The following tasks are carried forward to May:
> 
> * API dowloads to be fixed - Henri/Niels
> ** Niels volunteered to help get this fixed
> * Google Search fix - Marcell
> ** Marcel has contacted Ixonos about this, there is some problem but no
> resolution yet
> * The following items depend on the new infrastructure being available
> ** Fix cache issues - Eero - waiting for new infrastructure
> ** Plan for login issues - Eero - waiting for new infrastructure
> 
> ## Review of proposed May sprint items
> 
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?May2008Sprint&id=106&type=g
> 
> There were a lot of new proposals. They were split into 2 categories: to
> do in May, and "Backlog". "Backlog" items are low priority items which
> might (a) take a long time, and (b) be very difficult.
> 
> ### New items
> 
> * Implement ServerInfraPlan - Marcell
> ** Cache issues and login issues depend on this
> * Documenting in maemo.org the web development process. Dave
> ** Dave will be asking people lots of questions about this
> * improve extras assistant/promotion interface -Niels
> * bugzilla authentication using garage accounts -Ferenc
> * triaging/syncing bugs that have been duplicated to garage tracker
> (currently underway) - Andre/Karsten
> * Document how to deal with internal nokia bug tracker (pending)
> Andre/Karsten
> * Wiki reorg:
> ** Start content migration to MediaWiki. - Dave
> ** Complete incomplete sections of
> https://maemo.org/community/wiki/wikireorg/ - Dave
> ** Scrub outdated/irrelevant pages - Dave
> ** Fix bug #1587 - Dave
> * jobs section for maemo.org -Niels
> * Proposal agreed on better extras categories - Niels
> * automatic updating of maemo.org/downloads on upload to extras. -Niels
> * Start collecting product specific standard "need more info" questions
> to improve the feedback quality of the reports (before developers take a
> look) - Andre/Karsten
> * come up with a plan to create aliases as default assignees for
> components. get rid of "nobody at maemo.org" default assignee. urge
> developers to add themselves to the watchlist for products they are/feel
> responsible for. - Andre/Karsten
> * assign all open bugs to correct default assignees. there's a total of
> 1227 open bugs, 831 of them assigned to nobody at maemo.org. many reporters
> have the impression that nobody cares at all about their reports.
> -Andre/Karsten
> * Brainstorm site: Investigate how we could do this, find out what
> software Ubuntu are using. Make proposal on brainstorming site before
> end of May - Dave
> * Publish a "Who's who in maemo", including Nokia engineers working with
> the community, contractors and volunteers. Encourage people to update
> their information to keep the document up to date - Dave
> ** Documenting companies involved in maemo development.
> * Start the "What's happening Nokia?" page that people have been talking
> about in this thread:
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2008-May/017624.html
> and try to come up with a sane way to keep it up to date and get answers
> to the questions people are asking from the definitive source - Dave
> * Start publishing weekly reports about bugs.maemo.org activity, format
> to be improved. Andre/Karsten
> 
> ### Backlog
> 
> * start nagging developers on urgent issues (depends on the yet to
> create "Who's who" list). -Andre/Karsten
> * Define maemo.org policies for things like editbugs, getting @maemo.org
> email addresses, and if it doesn't exist, getting svn access - Dave
> * Proposal for http://maemo.org/community/
> * Documenting better Nokia contributions to open source projects,
> complement of http://opensource.nokia.com
> 
> 
> ## Review of bugs
> 
> All of the High and Medium priority bugs were looked at. There are 27
> high priority bugs and 29 medium priority bugs on the website component.
> 
> All agreed that the list of tasks for the May sprint was long, but many
> of them are relatively small tasks, and everyone is confident we'll make
> good headway during the month.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 

-- 
Quim Gil
marketing manager, open source
maemo software @ Nokia