[openspending-dev] Dev meeting: Nov 7, 2013

Thu Nov 7 13:31:38 UTC 2013

Just a friendly reminder about the developer meeting which starts soon.

On þri 5.nóv 2013 16:07, Tryggvi Björgvinsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Thursday we have our monthly developer meeting (first Thursday of
> November).
>
> Note that because of daylight savings time the meeting time has moved. I
> had put the meeting in at 14:00 GMT (Icelandic time) in the community
> calendar and that didn't get adjusted for daylight savings (probably
> because we don't do DST in Iceland). This means that on our calendar the
> time is different and since many of you probably use the calendar we
> shouldn't try to change it, so we're sticking to 14:00 GMT.
>
> I'll put a few times in other time zones below.
>
> Like always the meeting takes place on our IRC channel, #openspending on
> freenode.
>
> # Meeting agenda
>
> 1. Discuss our project frame/scope
>     * The mission/opportunities/areas of collaboration/skills required
> discussion
>     * Quite beaurocratic for a dev meeting (but it doesn't have to be
> boring)
>         * Helps us see in which direction we're heading (together)
>         * We'll dig into the technical aspects of the project scope
> 2. Technical goals the next 6 months
>     * We at The Open Knowledge Foundation have set goals for our
> contributions to OpenSpending over the next 6 months
>         * Those goals are how we want to contribute
>         * Those goals are not holy (since The Open Knowledge Foundation
> staff's code contributions are now part of the community contributions
> and we as a community have a say in if they're valuable or not)
>     * You can contribute goals and we can discuss them
>         * Either email them to me or just bring them to the dev meeting
>
>
> # Results from the last meeting
>
> We decided to split issue #670 (Improved data loading process) into two
> issues:
>
> * Re-focus #670 on improving the loading process (not saving files)
> * New issue #704 which is about saving db independent files
>
> We also decided to give the core team slightly more powers. Members of
> the core team can now approve and merge their own pull requests. We
> decided that we can trust the core team members because they know the
> code well. This inherently means that contributors get invited to become
> core team members when they have, through their contributions, showed
> that they know the code base well enough. Core team members can decide
> to wait for some time for code reviews (e.g. if they want dicussion etc.)
>
> Like before, core team is responsible for merging pull requests into master.
>
> With code deprecation we decided that we should measure as much as we
> can to see how or if old code is being used. If we decide to deprecate
> code we should try to move it into it's own repo instead of keeping it
> around in the main repo (causes confusion). This means slightly more
> maintenance on the sysadmin end, but keeps the code base cleaner and
> more inviting for new contributors.
>
>
> # Old logs
>
> We record these meetings. If you want to read the old logs of the
> previous dev meetings they are available here:
>
> http://meetinglogs.okfn.org/openspending/2013/
>
> Look at the .log.txt files or the .html files for the full logs (link in
> .txt [not .log.txt] are incorrect).
>
>
> # Time zones
>
> 14 GMT/UTC in different places:
>
> * Los Angeles: 06:00 (6AM) - woah that's early
> * New York: 09:00 (9AM)
> * Rio de Janeiro 12:00 (noon)
> * London: 14:00 (2PM)
> * Berlin: 15:00 (3PM)
> * New Delhi 19:30 (7:30PM)
> * Tokyo 23:00 (11PM) - woah that's late
>

-- 

Tryggvi Björgvinsson

Technical Lead, OpenSpending

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