Aaron and Caleb talked about the status of the release. They described the remaining steps and outlined what they are planning to do this week to for creating the release. Aaron had a question about gpg maven tools.
We spent some time talking through Jira and how as a community we need to document and conform to standard definitions about jira states. We decided to increase community involvement by: 1. Establishing WIP pull requests: If a developer has started work, they should not wait until the work has finished to submit the pull request. Instead they can submit WIP pull requests and receive feedback as they develop the feature. 2. Moving more design discussions to confluence and the dev list: Rather than having discussions over email (which may happen outside of the dev list), we should move more discussions related to design to confluence, jira, and the dev list We also decided to make the Rya working group alternate between prioritizing bugs in jira and community outreach. The next working group will be in two weeks and will focus on prioritizing tasks in jira and putting together a road map for the project. The working group after that will discuss how to add a new backend persistence to Rya. Thanks, Puja
