20090415Minutes

Meeting chair: jimbodude

Minutes prepared by: jimbodude

Attendance

• dlewis
• hari
• jimbodude
• tkmedia
• totallymaxed
• TSCHAK
• Zaerc

Topics and Discussion

• Several bug reports were covered
  • Nothing conclusive came out of the discussion
  • About 3 bug tickets in, focus was shifted to the next agenda items to keep interest

• Standardized testing procedures (presented by hari)
  • Goal: locate all bugs in a systematic way
  • Method:
    1. Develop standardized tests for each component (DCERouter, Web Admin, Orbiter, etc...)
    2. Assign 2+ people to each component
    3. Run tests over 2-3 days
    4. Combine results, create new tickets
  • If other test procedures are already available, use those to augment
  • No one has taken direct responsibility for these tasks.

• Release Scheduling
  • Goal: focus development efforts in key areas on a flexible, but documented, schedule such that important issues are not overlooked for long periods of time.
  • Method:
    1. Find things that don't work
    2. Assign them to a milestone
    3. Pick a date for each milestone's completion
  • Things that are broken or need attention: (in no particular order)
    • MD booting
    • KDE Desktop on MD
    • Getting back to Orbiter from KDE
    • the desktop is incorrectly sized on TV's at HD resolutions
    • login problem on MD
    • Auto detect of USBUIRT
    • ir codes in sqlcvs
    • serial detection
    • cisco 7070 wrong room problem
    • making more devices PnP
    • work on upgrading telecom
    • issue with the sony changer
  • No one has taken responsibility for these tasks

• Update scheduling discussion is deferred until there is a release schedule
• Installation number generation design discussion is deferred in the interest of time and higher priority issues

• Defect Tracking
  • Goal: Improve defect tracking in order to:
    • Communicate issues to a team that is distributed
    • Bring attention to issues that may otherwise be ignored
    • Focus developer efforts on key tasks
    • Assist in release scheduling
  • Method: Encourage testers to submit bug reports. Draft a defect reporting policy specific to LinuxMCE
  • A LinuxMCE policy will be presented at the next meeting for discussion
  • jimbodude had taken responsibility for these tasks

• Future Meetings
  • This meeting was helpful - future meetings are expected to be just as useful, and should be scheduled
  • Since the topics at this meeting require significant follow-up work the next meeting will be in one week
  • Meetings thereafter may be weekly or bi-weekly - this decision is deferred to the next meeting
  • jimbodude has taken responsibility for creating an agenda for the next meeting
  • No one has taken responsibility for scheduling the next meeting