On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 3:21 PM Jackson Isaac <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 14:52 Umesh Singla <[email protected] wrote: > >> Thanks for the summary. >> >> Also, were we able to decide on the GSoC-admin? I have put the call for >> mentors email for now to avoid further delays. But let's decide soon, so we >> have someone actively looking into it. >> > > Umesh, since you showed interest in being the admin again, I would say you > can go ahead and be the org admin. Hope to get in responses soon from > potential mentors. > Okay, but I was really hoping you'd be willing to take this up, and if possible, I'll start looking into base once in a while and help out the newcomers get started on base or infra projects. Also, with the new job, I delay considerably replying to the emails which could affect the application process. Umesh > >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Here's the summary of today's meeting. >>> >>> === Next online meeting >>> >>> Scheduled two weeks from now (January 26th), with the stress on GSOC. >>> We'll adjust the timing based on requests to join from USA or >>> Australia, please raise your hands if you want to join. >>> >>> === MacPorts Meeting 2019 >>> >>> We shortlisted some dates (Saturday - Wednesday): >>> - 6.-10. April >>> - 11.-15. May >>> - 8.-12. June >>> Aljaž is suggesting June to hopefully get nicer weather, potentially >>> the ability to go swimming etc. >>> >>> The idea is to organize the meeting in Trieste, Aljaž will try to find >>> a suitable place to stay. If you would like to join, please cast the >>> vote for your favourite date. If none of those dates suit you and you >>> would like to join, please let us know. >>> >>> === Google Summer of Code >>> >>> * We are looking for volunteers to mentor the students. >>> * We would probably not participate with more than one or two >>> projects, but we will only apply if we get sufficient interest from >>> potential mentors (ideally those who know the base). >>> * Me and Umesh could guide a student working on buildbot or webapp, >>> but that's not sufficient on itself to apply. >>> * Jackson would require hardware to be able to help more :) >>> * We need to attach "sample tasks" to all the ideas that we are >>> suggesting to students (for screening the students for their fitness >>> to work in GSOC). >>> >>> === Software Freedom Conservancy >>> >>> We discussed joining SFC. I sent an email to the PortMgr, but that >>> list is slightly quiet :). >>> We will repeat the initiative on this mailing list. It could be nice >>> to try if we could get some co-funding for the meeting. >>> >>> === Travis >>> >>> * Zero recently made quite some improvements to our bot & Travis >>> infrastructure. Thank you very much! >>> * Private repositories for binary packages are now used. >>> * Packages are always built from source. >>> * Obsolete packages are no longer scheduled for build, just to fail >>> anyway. >>> * Some improvement in the bot. >>> * He is looking for some further suggestions that could improve our >>> experience. >>> * (My not-too-serious suggestion was to ping participants after two >>> weeks of no activity, to simplify Perry's life :) >>> * Zero was thinking of starting to work on a script that could >>> automatically update port version based on livecheck results and >>> automatically create a pull request. This would be a very welcome >>> addition. >>> * My question was whether we could also automate revbumping >>> dependent ports, but this is slightly more challenging. >>> * Zero is looking into the other tickets (four tickets are currently >>> open) and into automating releases. He asked if someone (Clemens?) >>> could create an account on Bintray, but he'll send the details over >>> the mailing list. >>> * Zero asked if it was possible NOT to result in an error in "port >>> test" when a port doesn't have any tests defined. At the moment he >>> cannot enable running tests on Travis since that would almost always >>> result in a failure when the port didn't implement that functionality, >>> even if there was sufficient time left to run the tests. >>> * Rainer promised to create ticket for base to support "port bintest" >>> which could test something like "binaryname --version" or do some >>> other simple test to check whether a port is working after it's being >>> installed. This could also be a potential GSOC task, even though too >>> small all by itself. >>> >>> === MacPorts base >>> >>> (Looking for volunteers to rewrite the base to python to gain more >>> contributors :) :) :) >>> Jackson will start drafting some introduction to programming MacPorts >>> base. >>> >>> === Participants (in order of appearance) >>> >>> * umeshksingla (Umesh) >>> * mojca (Mojca) >>> * g5pw (Aljaž) >>> * l2dy (Zero) >>> * raimue (Rainer) >>> * ijackson (Jackson) >>> >>> Thanks to everyone for participation, even if the schedule was a bit >>> messy today, sorry for the confusion :) >>> >>> Mojca >>> >>> >>> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 12:01, Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I think I first messed up the addition and subtraction in time zones >>> > (last time it was apparently at 13:00 UTC), and then with sending out >>> > the email yesterday under the wrong address. I wanted to ask if there >>> > were any participants from the far east or west who wanted to >>> > participate, in that case we could shift the hour, but since we only >>> > had people from UTC+1 and UTC+5.5 who raised their hands, we'll stick >>> > with 15:00 UTC for now. >>> > >>> > This is the calendar: >>> > >>> > >>> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=9unkhredr302jroorlhusav0ko%40group.calendar.google.com&mode=AGENDA >>> > >>> > And this is for hangouts (last time we had a much shorter link, I'm >>> > unable to come up with that shorter one this time, but if anyone knows >>> > how, feel free to post something better): >>> > >>> > >>> https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N2ZxcWFsbnFmcmtvcmxpYWVrMGxoc2s4MGQgOXVua2hyZWRyMzAyanJvb3JsaHVzYXYwa29AZw&tmsrc=9unkhredr302jroorlhusav0ko%40group.calendar.google.com >>> > >>> > Meeting notes will be collected here: >>> > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Meetings/2019-01-12 >>> > >>> > Topics: >>> > - Google Summer of Code 18 & 19 >>> > - MacPorts Meeting in 2019 >>> > - Software Freedom Conservancy >>> > - Review open pull requests and roadmap for base >>> > - ... any other topics open for proposal? >>> > >>> > Looking forward to see you soon, >>> > Mojca >>> >>
