[OH-Dev] The meeting, it came up strong, and shook the trees, and blew away our fears (in 30 min)

[Asheesh Laroia]

Excerpts from Asheesh Laroia's message of Sat Aug 27 15:33:19 -0400 2011:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's time for a weekly OpenHatch IRC meeting. If you're wondering how
> to get involved, or have questions about what you've been working on,
> or want to learn the hot gossip about the status of the monthly release,
> you should come by.

Okay! We shrank the milestone a bit, and discussed the new "I Want To Help"
UI changes a bunch.

The easy way to read the minutes is the wiki:
    http://openhatch.org/wiki/Meetings/weekly/2011-08-27

And here they are inline:

= #openhatch Meeting =


Meeting started by paulproteus at 20:02:11 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
https://openhatch.org/meeting-irc-logs/weekly/2011-08-27.log.html .



== Meeting summary ==

* '''Say HELLO!'''  (paulproteus, 20:02:29)

* '''Talk about what we've been working on, and what we want feedback on'''  (paulproteus, 20:06:38)
** ''LINK:'' http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=wxmap&query=38.95239,-77.01784&lat=38.95239&lon=-77.01784&zoom=6&type=ter&units=english&wxsn=0&rad=1&rad.num=1&rad.spd=25&rad.opa=70&rad.stm=0&rad.type=N0R&rad.type2=&rad.smo=1&rad.mrg=0&sat=0&cams=0&svr=0&tor=0 is very pretty.  (aldeka, 20:06:39)
** jesstess reached out to a couple of people who clicked the I want to help button for OpenHatch, and they got back to me, which is great. I'll check in with them again this weekend.  (paulproteus, 20:08:14)
** paulproteus is trying to get in the habit of making the minutes better.  (aldeka, 20:08:40)
** paulproteus spent too much time on MySQL 5.5 support, http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue547  (paulproteus, 20:08:43)
** paulproteus made the openhatch.org/bugs/ box link to a wiki page with release goals  (paulproteus, 20:09:01)
** ''LINK:'' http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue477 a bug paulproteus can't reproduce  (paulproteus, 20:10:09)
** ''LINK:'' http://openhatch.org/wiki/Code_style is the first attempt to write some of that out.  (paulproteus, 20:11:52)
** paulproteus wants a code style document; first hints live at http://openhatch.org/wiki/Code_style  (paulproteus, 20:13:22)
** ''LINK:'' http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue516  (paulproteus, 20:21:31)
** aldeka says, I think we can safely add "write a code style guide" to the 11.09 milestone :)  (paulproteus, 20:25:58)
** ''LINK:'' http://events.openhatch.org/ is a calendar now  (paulproteus, 20:26:21)
** ''LINK:'' http://paste.debian.net/127600/ is our scrollback  (paulproteus, 20:31:54)
** ''LINK:'' http://groups.google.com/group/calagator-development and http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-tech-calendar/  (paulproteus, 20:33:32)
** ''LINK:'' https://github.com/jcsims/calagator is the repository we're working in  (paulproteus, 20:34:27)
** ''LINK:'' https://openhatch.org/bugs/file389/iwh-handler.png is the current proposal for a new UI for people who mark "I want to help"  (paulproteus, 20:36:52)
** ''LINK:'' http://openhatch.org/people/castrojo/ says he is interested in helping Ubuntu.  (paulproteus, 20:49:42)
** ''LINK:'' http://openhatch.org/+projects/pyblosxom contains "Next steps for helpers" and an undo link that removes you from the list.  (paulproteus, 21:20:35)
** We came to decisions on the mock-ups at https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue282  (paulproteus, 21:27:44)

* '''Decide what will be in the release (and what must get kicked-out)'''  (paulproteus, 21:28:08)
** ''LINK:'' https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue411 doesn't have to be in the milestone  (paulproteus, 21:33:28)
** ''LINK:'' https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue560 looks like a quick check I can do post-meeting  (paulproteus, 21:33:45)
** ''LINK:'' https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue226 should get pushed back  (paulproteus, 21:33:58)
** ''LINK:'' https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue477 seems like a data corruption bug that is worth a fix  (paulproteus, 21:36:33)
** ''LINK:'' http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue489 le sigh.  (paulproteus, 21:44:36)

* '''What we hope to get done this week'''  (paulproteus, 21:47:58)
** ''ACTION:'' paulproteus hopes that careful patch review can close the two git-mission-related issues  (paulproteus, 21:48:32)
** vivek says he hopes to finish https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue463 by the milestone release date  (paulproteus, 21:57:43)



Meeting ended at 21:58:43 UTC.



== Action items ==

* paulproteus hopes that careful patch review can close the two git-mission-related issues



== Action items, by person ==

* paulproteus
** paulproteus hopes that careful patch review can close the two git-mission-related issues



== People present (lines said) ==

* paulproteus (269)
* aldeka (129)
* tehviking_ (16)
* jesstess (12)
* pythonian4000 (7)
* sufjan` (5)