On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 14:52 Umesh Singla <umeshksin...@macports.org wrote:
> Thanks for the summary. > > Also, were we able to decide on the GSoC-admin? I have put the call for > mentors email for now to avoid further delays. But let's decide soon, so we > have someone actively looking into it. > > Umesh, since you showed interest in being the admin again, I would say you can go ahead and be the org admin. Hope to get in responses soon from potential mentors. > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Here's the summary of today's meeting. >> >> === Next online meeting >> >> Scheduled two weeks from now (January 26th), with the stress on GSOC. >> We'll adjust the timing based on requests to join from USA or >> Australia, please raise your hands if you want to join. >> >> === MacPorts Meeting 2019 >> >> We shortlisted some dates (Saturday - Wednesday): >> - 6.-10. April >> - 11.-15. May >> - 8.-12. June >> Aljaž is suggesting June to hopefully get nicer weather, potentially >> the ability to go swimming etc. >> >> The idea is to organize the meeting in Trieste, Aljaž will try to find >> a suitable place to stay. If you would like to join, please cast the >> vote for your favourite date. If none of those dates suit you and you >> would like to join, please let us know. >> >> === Google Summer of Code >> >> * We are looking for volunteers to mentor the students. >> * We would probably not participate with more than one or two >> projects, but we will only apply if we get sufficient interest from >> potential mentors (ideally those who know the base). >> * Me and Umesh could guide a student working on buildbot or webapp, >> but that's not sufficient on itself to apply. >> * Jackson would require hardware to be able to help more :) >> * We need to attach "sample tasks" to all the ideas that we are >> suggesting to students (for screening the students for their fitness >> to work in GSOC). >> >> === Software Freedom Conservancy >> >> We discussed joining SFC. I sent an email to the PortMgr, but that >> list is slightly quiet :). >> We will repeat the initiative on this mailing list. It could be nice >> to try if we could get some co-funding for the meeting. >> >> === Travis >> >> * Zero recently made quite some improvements to our bot & Travis >> infrastructure. Thank you very much! >> * Private repositories for binary packages are now used. >> * Packages are always built from source. >> * Obsolete packages are no longer scheduled for build, just to fail >> anyway. >> * Some improvement in the bot. >> * He is looking for some further suggestions that could improve our >> experience. >> * (My not-too-serious suggestion was to ping participants after two >> weeks of no activity, to simplify Perry's life :) >> * Zero was thinking of starting to work on a script that could >> automatically update port version based on livecheck results and >> automatically create a pull request. This would be a very welcome >> addition. >> * My question was whether we could also automate revbumping >> dependent ports, but this is slightly more challenging. >> * Zero is looking into the other tickets (four tickets are currently >> open) and into automating releases. He asked if someone (Clemens?) >> could create an account on Bintray, but he'll send the details over >> the mailing list. >> * Zero asked if it was possible NOT to result in an error in "port >> test" when a port doesn't have any tests defined. At the moment he >> cannot enable running tests on Travis since that would almost always >> result in a failure when the port didn't implement that functionality, >> even if there was sufficient time left to run the tests. >> * Rainer promised to create ticket for base to support "port bintest" >> which could test something like "binaryname --version" or do some >> other simple test to check whether a port is working after it's being >> installed. This could also be a potential GSOC task, even though too >> small all by itself. >> >> === MacPorts base >> >> (Looking for volunteers to rewrite the base to python to gain more >> contributors :) :) :) >> Jackson will start drafting some introduction to programming MacPorts >> base. >> >> === Participants (in order of appearance) >> >> * umeshksingla (Umesh) >> * mojca (Mojca) >> * g5pw (Aljaž) >> * l2dy (Zero) >> * raimue (Rainer) >> * ijackson (Jackson) >> >> Thanks to everyone for participation, even if the schedule was a bit >> messy today, sorry for the confusion :) >> >> Mojca >> >> >> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 12:01, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I think I first messed up the addition and subtraction in time zones >> > (last time it was apparently at 13:00 UTC), and then with sending out >> > the email yesterday under the wrong address. I wanted to ask if there >> > were any participants from the far east or west who wanted to >> > participate, in that case we could shift the hour, but since we only >> > had people from UTC+1 and UTC+5.5 who raised their hands, we'll stick >> > with 15:00 UTC for now. >> > >> > This is the calendar: >> > >> > >> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=9unkhredr302jroorlhusav0ko%40group.calendar.google.com&mode=AGENDA >> > >> > And this is for hangouts (last time we had a much shorter link, I'm >> > unable to come up with that shorter one this time, but if anyone knows >> > how, feel free to post something better): >> > >> > >> https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N2ZxcWFsbnFmcmtvcmxpYWVrMGxoc2s4MGQgOXVua2hyZWRyMzAyanJvb3JsaHVzYXYwa29AZw&tmsrc=9unkhredr302jroorlhusav0ko%40group.calendar.google.com >> > >> > Meeting notes will be collected here: >> > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Meetings/2019-01-12 >> > >> > Topics: >> > - Google Summer of Code 18 & 19 >> > - MacPorts Meeting in 2019 >> > - Software Freedom Conservancy >> > - Review open pull requests and roadmap for base >> > - ... any other topics open for proposal? >> > >> > Looking forward to see you soon, >> > Mojca >> >