== Report of Meeting 2023-09-21 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault
Full transcripts of this meeting are now available on the its wiki page. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/Report_of_Meeting_2023-10-12 1) Bob reports that he did not do much on the wiki while on vacation, but is heartened to see the contributions that Cameron Chandoke has been making, particularly in the are of Modifier trains https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Talk:Vocabulary/ModifierTrains. 2) Ed has been traveling as well, although he has been looking for a Linux box for testing. He is wondering if WSL2 is an acceptable testing venue for Linux on a Windows box. There was further investigations about ways to create User ID's to run J in a Linux sandbox. Raul feels that there are a lot of challenges in testing a UI application. This lead to questions to whether the J Wiki Viewer should be released for J9.5 as there are challenges J9.5's version of JQt with regard to isigraph. This may present issues with developing the viewer for new versions of JQt going forward. Bob mentioned that for Jig he uses an umbrella script to load different scripts based on the Users J version as there are challenges with tooltips with different versions of JQt. 3) Bob mentioned that he used the J Wiki Viewer very effectively to do research on Jose Mario Quintana's wicked toolkit https://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2017-October/049263.html for the podcast episode on Modifier Trains. There have been other reports of users expressing surprise at the depth of the Wiki through using the J Wiki Viewer. 4)A deeper discussion followed on whether the J Wiki Viewer should be supported for the J9.5 beta. Ed was concerned that users might be discouraged with their first impression if it was J9.4. The application is solid in J9.4, but J9.5 is shaky. Bob feels that as a beta it should be expected that there will be bugs and that information for beta users should be that if they are using the viewer in a production environment then the J9.4 version would be preferred. 5)Ed has been doing updates to the wiki database every week instead of daily and wondered if this would be an issue as he is nearing the limits of free use of AWS. Bob felt that he is more concerned with historical information and uses the forums and the APL farm for breaking news, but that users should be informed about how current the information is used. Raul felt that a message on the UI regarding the last update and next update would be appropriate. Bob wondered if Jsoftware might be willing to pick up a minimal cost for AWS if the value of the J wiki view is worthwhile. Ed says that the primary benefit of the application is that its development keeps him sane. For access to previous meeting reports https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki_Development If you would like to participate in the development of the J wiki please contact us on the general forum and we will get you an invitation to the next J wiki meeting held on Thursdays at 23:00 (UTC) Next meeting is October 19, 2023. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
