David Pursehouse, Luca Milanesio, Alice Kober-Sotzek, Ben Rohlfs
Online, November 26, 12:30 - 13:20 CEST
The next meeting will be held on December 10, 12:30 CEST.
The next issue of the project news is due to be published at the end of this week, November 29.
There were no new items proposed during this meeting. David has already uploaded a change adding items about the new project roadmap, the recent hackathon and user summit, and the release of 3.1.0. The update includes links to some changes that are not published yet; if those are not completed before the end of the week, the post will be amended to remove the links, so that it can be published on time.
After publishing this issue of the news, David will create a new draft for the next one which is tentatively planned for the end of January 2020.
Alice has uploaded the initial version of the project roadmap for review. Since this is based on the roadmap that we have already agreed on during previous ESC meetings, we don't need to do a detailed review of the contents. We will review and fix nits, and publish it within the next day. Any further amendments can then be done in follow-up changes.
We briefly went over the open design documents.
Ben has uploaded a new version which includes many adjustments based on feedback received so far, both in the review comments and face-to-face during the recent hackathon. He will reach out to those that had concerns to make sure they have been addressed.
Ben has reviewed the initial design and has asked the author to proceed with adding the implementation details. We will revisit this again later.
Pluggable authentication backend:
Edwin has reserved time to review the design within the next week. We will follow up later.
It's not clear if this really belongs in Gerrit or should be part of JGit. Luca suggested to abandon the proposal and instead start a discussion with the JGit committers.
Alice is handling this; no action needed right now.
Alice will follow up with Han-Wen and Gal to check the status of this.
Everyone agreed that the hackathon and summit were very well organized.
Luca received feedback from no-shows that the timing was not convenient, being in the week before the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. Also having the summit on a weekend may mean it attracts enthusiasts, but many people might not want to attend a “work event” on the weekend. We will consider scheduling the next summit a bit earlier in the year, around October, and during the week instead of the weekend.
We also discussed how we can better advertise the summit to get a wider range of attendees. So far it seems that the audience mostly consists of developers and admins, but not end users.
We briefly went over the issues that have been added to the ESC component on the issue tracker.
Issue 11772 - Clarify future of change identifiers was due to be discussed face-to-face during the user summit, but we're not sure if that happened. Ben has asked Patrick to confirm.