Hi Christian,
many thanks for the minutes!
Any details who (or how many) attended the meeting?
Thanks
matthias
On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, chrysn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 03:55:08PM +0100, Koen Zandberg wrote:
> > For those of us attending FOSDEM this year, I plan to grab a BoF room
> > time slot to have a small RIOT meet-up.
>
> I've taken some notes on this:
>
> After we've finished admiring his PineTime, discussion started about fields
> which we could improve in RIOT, with a focus on the input RIOT users and
> newcomers. (Please apologize my sketchy notes)
>
> * Documentation
> * Document modules (and make them discoverable)
> * Document how to use in them, in addition to what-are-its internals
> * Is Doxygen sufficient for this purpose? There was a PR to Sphinx
> some time ago, but would such a migration even feasible?
> * Grouping of drivers and/or examples in documentation and paths
> * "When developing an X, how do I..." for X in application, driver
> etc.
> * Module dependencies, esp. how they are done, and pseudomoldules (and
> which are there?)
> * Gaëtan wrote basic doc on what a module is ... where is it? is it
> sufficient?
> * How are networks configured?
> * Many of those are currently solved by people coming to IRC / Matrix
> * Document environment variables inside the makefile. BOARDSDIR?
> EXTERNAL_MODULES_DIR? Make them searchable.
> * PR experience: PR workflow is insufficiently described in
> CONTRIBUTING, some relevant information is in the maintainer
> documentation ("Why doesn't murdock build?")
> * PRs not being responded to. Use GitHub code owners file (even though
> we call it something else, but that's their file name)?
> * Preselection of PRs? Making someone feel responsible for code?
> * Run CI for PRs if nothing else running?
> * security implications
> * "When I got an ACK, why isn't it merged immediately?" Maybe have
> murdock reply to PRs on what is required?
> * uncrustify -- What do I need to address, what is a suggestion, what
> will maintainers enforce?
> * When is a "*ping*" OK, is it encouraged, etc.? Ping whom?
> * More often, for annoying little stuff, push to contributor branch
> (if allowed by contributer)?
> * How do people who did some comments stay in the reviewers list? Whom
> to add, what happens if nobody is assigned after triage when someone
> removed themselves?
> * The dependency graph is not accessible: There can't be a `make
> info-module-tree`.
> * When will we run into make limitations? Won't need to replace make
> for everything, just for determining USE_MODULES.
> * Defaults for pseudomodules, and optional orders of preferences?
> stdio_cdc_acm vs stdio_uart etc
>
> This certainly doesn't cover all topics touched, and might even have
> missed proposed solutions, but might help spark further discussion
> and/or identify points where improvement would be quite welcome.
>
> KR
> chrysn
>
>
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Matthias Waehlisch
. Freie Universitaet Berlin, Computer Science
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