Members present: jan____, davisp, nslater, ryan_ramage, benoitc, drsm79, garren, rnewson, chewbranca, nslater_
---------------- Meeting summary: ---------------- 1. Preface 2. 1.3.0 release a. i just closed the 1.3.0 vote. it's going out in the next announce window (tuesday 9th) (nslater, 2) 3. marketing a. effort underway to improve marketing activity (nslater, 3) 4. fauxton 5. rcouch a. fauxton folks working on authentication at the moment (nslater, 5) b. should be ready to invite contributions to fauxton soon - perhaps with blog post (nslater, 5) 6. github PRs a. github pr integration on hold (nslater, 6) 7. bigcouch a. bigcouch merge also on hold (time commitments also) (nslater_, 7) IRC log follows: # 1. Preface # 19:01:31 [nslater]: topics so far: 19:01:32 [nslater]: * 1.3.0 release 19:01:39 [nslater]: * marketing 19:01:54 [nslater]: that's it from me at the moment. i will wait another 5 mins to collect topics from folks 19:02:01 [nslater]: looks like we might have a small turn out this week 19:02:01 [benoitc]: i can't be really active today, on an urgency. 19:02:10 [nslater]: benoitc: hope it's nothing too bad 19:02:26 [benoitc]: hopefully not 19:02:39 [benoitc]: thx 19:04:05 [garren]: nslater: I can give a short fauxton update if anyone interested. 19:04:06 [garren]: as a topic. 19:04:35 [nslater]: okay 19:05:49 [nslater]: okay 19:05:56 [rnewson]: sorry, also quite busy. 19:05:56 [jan____]: okay # 2. 1.3.0 release # 19:06:13 [jan____]: not very busy, but also not much to add this week :) 19:06:26 [jan____]: SHIP SHIP SHIP 19:06:33 [nslater]: #info i just closed the 1.3.0 vote. it's going out in the next announce window (tuesday 9th) 19:06:48 [nslater]: i am setting up a cadence. not communicated this to anyone yet 19:06:50 [nslater]: tuesdays: releases 19:06:56 [nslater]: thursdays: weekly news 19:07:03 [nslater]: this is just for me, as i will be running these primarily 19:07:26 [nslater]: "tuesday" as a date for releases is under advisement from sally 19:07:46 [nslater]: can't afford to have more than one of these things going on on the same day 19:08:01 [nslater]: so attempting to spread things out across the week for folks 19:08:01 [nslater]: that's it # 3. marketing # 19:08:32 [nslater]: i plan to start ramping up our marketing activity 19:08:39 [nslater]: or rather, "process-izing" it 19:08:46 [nslater]: we don't do enough of it. we need to get better 19:08:54 [nslater]: will be looking for help from the community 19:08:56 [nslater]: sent an email to dev 10 mins before the meeting 19:09:02 [nslater]: if you have any thoughts on this, please get involved 19:09:11 [nslater]: (i don't really know what im doing) 19:09:27 [jan____]: I have a blog post in my TBD, about "the new CouchDB release process", but I donât yet know if I get to finish it in time 19:09:40 [nslater]: #info effort underway to improve marketing activity 19:10:03 [nslater]: jan____: do you think it would have more impact before the 1.3.0 release? 19:10:11 [nslater]: my gut tells me it should be fine to do after 19:10:54 [jan____]: oh right, wouldnât hurt to coincide 19:11:01 [nslater]: one of the things i want to do that i have mentioned in passing a few times is doing weekly news items 19:11:09 [nslater]: these are an evolution of the ROUNDUP things i am doing at the moment 19:11:16 [nslater]: hoping to summarise important conversations on dev@ etc 19:11:19 [nslater]: my goal is to get these on the actual blog 19:11:26 [nslater]: i just need to evolve the format a bit more 19:11:31 [nslater]: jan____: sure 19:11:53 [nslater]: i don't have anything more to announce at this time 19:12:16 [nslater]: moving on # 4. fauxton # 19:12:17 [nslater]: garren: over to you 19:12:31 [jan____]: nslater: Iâm like +10000 on all that. 19:12:33 [nslater]: cool thx 19:12:41 [garren]: thanks, chewbranca added view functionality in. 19:13:01 [garren]: We busy working on authentication at the moment. Making some good progress on that. 19:13:25 [nslater]: cool. have you seen many contributions from non-cloudant people since moving to the apache repos? 19:13:39 [garren]: We looking to move some of the couchapp deployment to use grunt-couch so if anyone interested on working on that. It should be relatively straight forward they are welcome to. 19:13:41 [nslater]: i know ryan seemed keen to get involved 19:14:24 [garren]: yeah ryan_ramage has been helping out. We also will soon need anyone interested to just to take it for a test spin. 19:14:31 [nslater]: garren: could we make it more clear perhaps that people are welcome to get involved? 19:14:38 [nslater]: do we have a list of issues or whatever that people could get started with? 19:14:53 [ryan_ramage]: I am keenâ¦I have had a busy week, but end of this week to get back on track 19:14:55 [nslater]: (this is a genuine question - i don't know if we could be doing better or not) 19:15:16 [garren]: nslater: yes there are some issues in jira. 19:15:23 [garren]: we probably should be adding more. 19:15:25 [jan____]: we could do with a blog post inviting webdevs to hack on futon 19:15:31 [jan____]: with a bit of a howto 19:15:46 [nslater]: blog post over ML post? 19:15:53 [drsm79]: nslater: there is a "here's how you contribute" plugin for fauxton - https://github.com/apache/couchdb/tree/master/src/fauxton/app/addons/contribute 19:16:02 [garren]: jan____: I agree, I think we need to make just a little more progress then we can look at a blog post more help. 19:16:03 [jan____]: blog, and then use all PR channels 19:16:18 [nslater]: garren: cool - sounds good 19:16:19 [drsm79]: the idea is if you click a button that doesn't work it'll point you to how to add that buttons functinoality 19:16:24 [chewbranca]: yeah that sounds like a good idea 19:16:27 [drsm79]: +1 on a blog 19:16:31 [jan____]: garren: thatâs fine, I trust you know a good time when to publish this 19:17:11 [nslater]: any more on this or shall we move on? 19:17:11 [garren]: jan____: I think drsm79 chewbranca and I just want to add a couple more things and get the tests in place. 19:17:21 [garren]: nothing from my side. 19:17:26 [drsm79]: nope 19:17:26 [nslater]: cool # 5. rcouch # 19:17:40 [nslater]: benoitc: are you able to update or are you afk? 19:17:47 [nslater]: (i guess we'll find out in a minute or two if he doesn't respond) 19:18:01 [nslater]: ACTION adds "github PRs" to the topic list 19:18:03 [nslater]: ACTION adds "bigcouch" to the topic list 19:18:48 [nslater]: #info fauxton folks working on authentication at the moment 19:19:16 [nslater]: #info should be ready to invite contributions to fauxton soon - perhaps with blog post 19:19:25 [nslater]: benoitc must be busy # 6. github PRs # 19:19:32 [ryan_ramage]: just a quick thing for the feature branches for fauxton 19:19:32 [ryan_ramage]: maybe we can do the jira naming and have fauxton somewhere 19:19:32 [ryan_ramage]: I wanted to see garren auth thing pushed but the ci did not pick it up 19:19:48 [nslater]: we have 13 outstanding PRs 19:20:16 [nslater]: i am going to start a weekly ROUNDUP and hope this number goes down 19:20:26 [nslater]: i am wondering if there's anything else we could be doing to bring it down 19:20:39 [nslater]: or if another approach is better in the long-run 19:20:47 [nslater]: i am also wondering if there's any update on the integration work, jan____ ? 19:21:18 [garren]: One of those PR's are mine. I think I should close it. And maybe bring it up later on JIRA. 19:21:41 [jan____]: nslater: stuck on my end, sorry 19:21:55 [nslater]: jan____: no worries 19:22:46 [nslater]: #info github pr integration on hold 19:23:08 [nslater]: garren: cool 19:23:38 [nslater_]: irc cloud is giving me issues # 7. bigcouch # 19:23:55 [nslater_]: davisp, rnewson - anything to report? 19:24:46 [davisp]: nopes. Had work emergencies. Might have time later this week 19:24:47 [rnewson]: nslater_: that we've been too busy to work on the merge. :) 19:24:53 [rnewson]: oh snap 19:25:01 [nslater_]: hehe. thanks guys 19:25:01 [davisp]: We'll be together in Boston next week so might find some time to finish it off 19:25:18 [nslater_]: #info bigcouch merge also on hold (time commitments also) 19:25:46 [nslater_]: cool 19:26:01 [nslater_]: i think that's about it 19:26:08 [nslater_]: unless anyone has anything else 19:26:16 [nslater_]: might be able to wrap this up in 30 mins 19:26:23 [nslater_]: (i.e. now...) 19:26:33 [jan____]: DO IT
