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PEAR Group June 22, 2008 2008-06-22 Meeting Minutes

Contents

[edit] Attendees

[edit] Topics

Greg requested a past-president summary.

[edit] Past President Summary

  • Congrats to new people
  • Limited Nominations/Voting as a sign that current PEAR devs are content
  • Volume of proposals has risen = thanks to the old people
  • Number of bugs is rising, despite declining new bug reports
  • Talk of PEAR2 is encouraging new devs and could be holding off development of old packages
  • Yet unresolved - how collectives will work/look.
  • A few constitutional amendments that were informally proposed by the old group - need to be approved by referendum.
  • Important for president to maintain relations with PHP internals
  • Important for the president to identify the individuals who have the most influence over PHP internals issues that affect PEAR

Greg recommended:

  • Keep tabs on the stats
  • Brainstorm ways of improving retention if we are losing people
  • Keep attendance up at conferences for face-to-face


[edit] Administrative

  • Brett will take meeting minutes
  • Helgi will update pearweb index
  • Josh granted access to group members to the PEAR blog
  • Christian granted pear.group karma

[edit] Conference Meetup

  • Group will try and have a face to face meeting, PHP Appalachia in the USA, another in Europe if possible.
  • Christian will try and suggest a meeting in Canada or Europe, FOWA was suggested, which is in London this year early Oct.

[edit] Vice President was voted on

[edit] PEARDOC DB4=>DB5 conversion

peardoc upgrade is planned for Next Week, June 30th - July 4th, Christian and Brett will take the lead on this and get Rudy from GSoC's code running and upgrade peardoc - solicit help from pear-dev - We WILL NOT Branch! A freeze will be announced on the pear-doc list

[edit] Bug Triage Updates/Plan

Once every two months? Chuck will assist in bug triage updates on the wiki, highlight agenda to be sent to the list, josh suggests a post on the blog and pear-dev announcements for each event.

[edit] Plan for removing package v1

Version bump?

  • Chuck +1
  • Christian +1
  • Travis +1
  • Josh +1
  • Brett +1
  • Joe +1

Try and contact developers first to upgrade their package.xml to version 2. Brett will draft an email to be sent to developers of package v1 packages.

[edit] Next meeting time/date

Christian suggested meetings should not be held by a hard date, adjust meetings by amount of work to be done.

Travis suggested a maximum/limit of time to ensure meetings happen on some schedule

The next meeting will be July 13th, same time 5pm GMT.

[edit] Action Items

  • David will email systems and get pear-group@ alias updated. - Done
  • David plans to post a introductory post on the president's blog - Done
  • Chuck will email Helgi about updates to the Calendar of events
  • Chuck will send notices regarding upcoming bug triage events
  • Brett will draft an email to developers of package v1 packages, announcing the update.
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