Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

[Jackson Isaac]

On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 14:52 Umesh Singla <umeshksingla at macports.org 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.


> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org>
> 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 <mojca at macports.org> 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
>>
>
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