Community Project Board meeting minutes - May 3rd
Sunday 15 May 2011 11:09:52 am
Here are the minutes of the 6th Community Project Board meeting. Our previous minutes can be found here.
Note: Andrew excused himself, his vote was transferred to Ole Marius.
External Communication on Cty Project
Evangelization
Event planner
Wireframes submitted by Nicolas + written functional specs. Review requested by the Board. Gilles can lend a hand, but he needs a partner to team-up with. Idea for finding a partner : posting in the forums and/or on IRC. Robin is leading the project.
Next steps & actions :
- Review by the Board : everyone
- Find the implementation team : Robin
- Implementation : tbd
- Populate the calendar with our list of events : tbd
- Provide guidance to the community on how to use it (under /get-involved/events) : tbd
Evangelizing material
- Nicolas is finishing the demo synopsis
- Presentation material to be finished too : Nicolas
Product Direction
Release policy
From last meeting : publish the final version of the release policy.
Post-mortem after 4.2011 build
Little feedback
Need for more visibility : bigger download button, more clarity, better articulation with ez.no.
Provide clearer upgrade instructions :
- documentation
- automated tools
Extensions were not available separately.
The name of build was not ideal :
- we should have <year>.<month>
"Download" section on share.ez.no must be improved :
Idea : step-by-step guide :
- Download the tarball here
- Click here to get the upgrade instructions
Download page : as simple as possible : only the latest version presented, and a small link to archives (inspiration : http://www.opera.com/ ). Idea : have a different background image for every new build. "A simple download slate".
Crowd initiative for creating the "Install eZ Publish Community Project" instructions, à la Wordpress : http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress . Visual assets like videos, or a series of images could be ideal.
Decisions
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Naming of the builds : <year>.<month>
--> reflect this in the final version of the Release policy
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Upgrade instructions : Changelog + Documentation + later : tools for upgrading
- "Build available as a package on share.ez.no, under the download section : tarballs, extensions, changelog, upgrade instructions." -->
- "Automated build delivery : every time a new build is ready, share.ez.no reflects this automatically". A baseline for upgrade doc is provided, and a build-specific release note, containing the unusual upgrade instructions. Any change introducing an upgrade instruction should be immediately documented.
Actions
Create a baseline for upgrading between two successive versions. Can be extracted from the upgrade pages on doc.ez.no. The extension upgrade question remains unanswered for now. We need to provide a place where specific upgrade instructions can be documented (place + stub). Github's wiki could be an idea. Need to have a dedicated meeting on how to organize this.
Next release tentative date
Monday, May 16th.
Next meeting
Wed. May 25th, 15:00 GMT+1
