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

Sun Jan 13 10:29:14 UTC 2019

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 3:21 PM Jackson Isaac <ijackson at macports.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

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 <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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