Meeting Notes: October 14 2008

Present

• ckdake (notes)
• valiant
• jozefs
• talmdal
• virshu

Project Tasks

Gallery 1

• no updates this week
• low number of bug reports, 1.5.9 doing much better than 1.5.8
• jmullan and Tim_j to drive 1.6 transition message

GMC

• bharat owes fryfrog cash
• fryfrog needs to follow up with newegg about refunding restocking fee

Gallery 2.3

• obviously been a while since non-apache/non-mysql tests have been run, but in progress
• fixed a lot of issues but not quote done yet
  • need to fix some Oracle isues
  • update adodb and smarty libs - talmdal on it
  • check other libs for updates - talmdal on it
• need nice G2.3 story for GMC. 1 paragraph or so for each new major feature (http://galleryproject.org/gallery_2.3_RC2_released is a good start, as is http://galleryproject.org/gallery_2.2_released) - ckdake partially on it but needs assistance
• packages by Thursday, upgrade testing on Thursday/Friday, release this weekend. (ckdake is traveling this weekend)

GX Sprint

• bhrat, jmullan, talmdal have been evaluating various frameworks
• bhrat leaning towards Kohana - new release in 5 months with API changes
• criteria include that it be based on php5: symphony, prado, zoop, kohana, zend (all under eval on sf.net svn)
• valiant mentions that we might have passed through flow3 pretty quickly since it is not "finished", but kohana is also pretty young (~8 months)
• josefs has been going through -devel and categorizing things, will update spreadsheet soon
• valiant would like to see plan (schedule, goals) for the 3 day sprint before we get there - talmdal says to consider it done by Saturday
• ckdake will follow up with signe and thumb to make sure they are doing what they agreed to do
• bharat has room, etc all set at Google
• look at jhilden's teams personas (see usability below!) and remember that we plan to do a UX driven application design process
• wireframes
  • more options/links etc would be nice
  • where is the site admin one? => http://jkwebs.de/gallery/gx/Admin.html
  • picassa web UI is good thing to look at
  • valiant says important to take menu UI into consideration for application design so that data/hook providers can be simple and UI design easy

Usability

• jhilden has 2 student teams working on Gallery. Gallery2:Usability:Interface_Redesign_Fall_2008
• personas are up: http://phototic.googlepages.com/milestone3 http://www.adamatorres.com/gallery-project/?page_id=138

Action Items For Next Week

(bold ones are overdue)

• schultmc
  • update us on corporation status "Real Soon Now"
  • backport fixes and ask for code reviews or contact the security team to see if 2.2.5 can go in
  • post versions to backports.org
• talmdal
  • continue to push johndbritton for more documentation
  • run full test suite

Not at Meeting

• h0bbel
  • finish putting together MS testing plan ("I'll write an updated text tomorrow and get that done with. ")
  • add more to test matrix for other platforms ("No updates on MS testing plan, but I'll try to get something done about that before the next meeting.")
• alindeman
  • review 341: ffmpeg
  • ping h0bbel to do something about paid support by next meeting
  • complete G2.3 fixes
• beckett
  • look through integrations page on codex and update (remove obsoletes)