[Geoserver-devel] June 11 meeting minutes

Participants
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Alessio Fabiani
Andrea Aime
Ben Caradoc Davies
Jody Garnett
Justin Deoliveira

Agenda
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* Time boxed releases proposal
* RC and final for GeoTools and GeoServer
* CITE
* GeoTools Proposals
* Rendering transformations - ask Martin

Action items
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* Time boxed releaes proposal:
  * JD: set up a wiki page with release dates and release managers for
each release
  * AA: add task section with docs changes and policies changes for GeoServer
  * JG: Set up a geotools proposal placeholder that links across; list
docs for modification
  * everybody: discuss and vote on the mailing list!!!
* RC for GeoServer and Geotools
   * JD: last fixes
   * AA: assist as possible
* Release guidelines rewrite after new release scripts
   * JD: working on the GeoServer one
   * AA: rewrite the GeoTools one based on JD release scripts
   * (someone take this one?) udpate gt2 release script to build off a
clean repo
* GeoTools Proposals
   * JG: Create patches for the API @deprecation changes
   * JG: QA Run on FunctionName arguments
   * AA: QA Run on FunctionName arguments

Next meeting is June 25th, don't forget

Time boxed releases proposal
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http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GSIP+77+-+Time+boxed+release+model

JG: use fixed time releases (not relative to the last one)
BCD, JD: drop a release if it's 15 days to late

Clarify that the stable branch is not forced to be maintained after
the new branch,
but nothing prevents someone intersted from doing so

Careful with very core changes (catalog changes and the like).
Catalog classes considered API (of course)

How about LTS, like Ubuntu/Firefox and so on?
Lack of resources to commit there atm - propsoal does not preclude
this idea if a customer is interested.

Resource planning; release schedule wiki page with a sign up for
participents, assign
person to each release date

Q: uDig is happy on geotools trunk (due to QA) may release a milestone
if needed.

RC and final for GeoTools and GeoServer
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JG: Wow is it that time already, may submit some patches around @deprecations
JD: A few patches expected out of Cite WCS testing, REST and Workspaces

Rendering transformations
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* Martin putting together some patches
* Hopefully this week or next

CITE
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Looking good, residual issue with WFS which should be good now,
residual WCS issues that needs looking into.
But... won't be passing WFS CITE tests on 2.1.x because of changes in
the CITE tests that require severe code changes.

JD: making tools nicer to run

GeoTools Proposals
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- API: Clean up FeatureEvents / FilterFactory cleanup /
FeatureCollection revolution
- Detailed Argument and Return Info for FunctionName - QA run needed

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