Live GIS Disc Meeting Minutes

We/Th 27 Jan 2010

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?year=2010&month=1&day=27&p1=137&p2=22&p3=240&p4=215

Agenda:

• Prioritise tasks that we will work on for the upcoming 3.0 release

• Roundup of new programs since 2.0

• Update on what's happening with Click2Try

• Look over & triage open bug reports

Possible Areas for improvement:

• Clean up desktop icons
  • maybe use a menu instead
  • probably create a section for "bleeding edge" releases and packages. This section doesn't need the same level of QA as the rest.

• Make build scripts consistent
  • copy config files from checked out svn directory, rather than "wget https://svn.osgeo.org/...xx.config". This means we can rebuild old releases (which can't be done at the moment).
  • Use the same tmp file names

• Quality Control:
  • Have each project write a test plan which explains how to test to see if the project works

• Move toward OSGeo incubation
  • Put commit processes in place, and specify which licences can and cannot be added
  • Have committers sign up to maintain the commit guidelines
  • Specify license guidelines

• Data Sets:
  • Package up a common dataset
  • Encourage (but not mandate) projects to use the dataset

• Documentation: (probably to target 4.0, foss4g 2010)
  • Provide tutorial guidelines
  • Encourage projects to populate the tutorials in line with the guidelines

• Install to USB Stick how-to

• Multi-lingual how-to

• Wireless network card firmware