Hey Everyone! We had a great couple of days in Redmond at the Cordova face to face. Thanks to everyone who made it out in person and to those of you who joined in remotely! And a special thanks to Parashuram and the rest of the Microsoft committers who helped organize and host the event!
The two days consisted of us meeting as a big group and covering all of the topics on the agenda [1]. Notes from the meeting can be found at [2]. Some of the big takeaways: * Cordova needs to become more stable with versioning, improve testing coverage and making updating easy. Right now our versioning and releasing leads to users using platforms, plugins and tools that may never have been tested together. Proposal incoming * Cordova is struggling with the volume of issues and PRs. It was plainly obvious at the meeting that we have more issues coming in than we can currently handle. We need to improve our contributing workflow and do a better job of mentoring new potential committers to help deal with this. * We need to improve how we are communicating breaking changes with our community. Posting blog sooner and make more noise will help. Same strategy should be applied for architectural changes (like browserify workflow) * Docs organization, SEO and quality need to be improved. Proposal incoming. * Need to rally around big goals to help them get to a releasable state. For instance, we are trying to ship iOS9 support. We need people helping Shaz close bugs [3] * Plugin quality needs to improve. This is related to us not keeping up with pull requests. Plugin audit is coming and we are going to be proposing deprecating some of the core plugins. We created many actionable outcomes and follow up points from the meeting. I will be posting individual threads for many of the topics above and ones I didn't mention but are in the meeting notes. This will lead to proposals being submitted to cordova-discuss[4] and issues being created in jira to track progress. Feel free to discuss in this thread about any of the topics that were covered or wait until the individual threads pop up. All decisions will be made on the list as per Apache policy and we highly encourage everyone to participate and give feedback on the upcoming proposals. Thanks! -Steve [1] https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss/blob/master/proposals/Face2Face-Oct15.md [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MArKRmnLS052LBbhPxJF57_4ZivghOj8znWo5sTCkbU/edit [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=76&view=detail&selectedIssue=CB-9297 [4] https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss
