4:34 a.m.
May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific
time (2000 UTC).
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
months.
Bryce
9:34 p.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at
noon
Pacific
time (2000 UTC).
I believe that should be 1900 UTC due to summer time (21:00 CEST). See
link at:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
months.
1:08 p.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 02:34:30PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon
> Pacific
> time (2000 UTC).
I believe that should be 1900 UTC due to summer time (21:00 CEST). See
link at:
Thanks, damn daylight savings always screws me up.
Bryce
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
>
> This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> months.
>
10:02 p.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
months.
I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM. We
spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of the
$13100 budgeted.
This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason it
was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical masses to
work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a gathering
focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our user
community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
Tav
1:50 a.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 15:02 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>
>
> This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> months.
I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM.
We
spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of the
$13100 budgeted.
This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason
it
was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical masses
to
work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a gathering
focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our user
community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
Is it worth trying to have a release made upon every hackfest? That way
we'd:
a) Always have a focus
b) prepare with bug cleaning weeks before
c) Share knowledge about making a release for different platforms
d) Having something big to shout about afterwards
Martin,
1:12 p.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:02:24PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>
> This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> months.
I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM. We
spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of the
$13100 budgeted.
This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason it
was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical masses to
work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a gathering
focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our user
community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
Excellent ideas all around.
With releases traditionally the work falls into these categories:
0. Getting tests to all pass and the build to build cleanly
1. The actual release mechanics (make dist, signing, etc.)
2. Translation
3. Fixing release-critical bugs
4. PR/announcement
5. Website/infrastructure related bits and pieces
Some of these may be better suited to co-location than others. #0 I
suspect is probably already in the bag, and #1 I've been working on
behind the scenes so am not worried there. Translation I think kind of
by definition is going to be hard to do as a hackfest. The PR and
Website stuff probably would benefit from a hackfest but they're not
areas likely to be blockers for us, although a strong case could be made
from a fundraising perspective that it would be time well invested.
I suspect for this release bugfixing is the biggest remaining hurdle,
but I don't have anywhere close to a handle on what it's going to look
like so who knows. If we knew what bugs needed fixed the worst, and who
the fixers would be, that would tell us the suitability of a hackfest
and clue us in on where geographically it should be held.
I'm guessing that there's enough of us typically involved in releases
that are located in the western half of the US, that a west-coast or
midwest location might be sensible, and might be a fair turn since we've
had hackfests on the east coast and England.
Bryce
3:52 a.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 21:12 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:02:24PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >
> >
> > This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> > identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> > months.
> I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM.
> We
> spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of
> the
> $13100 budgeted.
>
> This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason
> it
> was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical
> masses to
> work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
> duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
> particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a
> gathering
> focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
> fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our
> user
> community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
Excellent ideas all around.
With releases traditionally the work falls into these categories:
0. Getting tests to all pass and the build to build cleanly
1. The actual release mechanics (make dist, signing, etc.)
2. Translation
3. Fixing release-critical bugs
4. PR/announcement
5. Website/infrastructure related bits and pieces
Some of these may be better suited to co-location than others. #0 I
suspect is probably already in the bag, and #1 I've been working on
behind the scenes so am not worried there. Translation I think kind
of
by definition is going to be hard to do as a hackfest. The PR and
Website stuff probably would benefit from a hackfest but they're not
areas likely to be blockers for us, although a strong case could be
made
from a fundraising perspective that it would be time well invested.
I suspect for this release bugfixing is the biggest remaining hurdle,
but I don't have anywhere close to a handle on what it's going to
look
like so who knows. If we knew what bugs needed fixed the worst, and
who
the fixers would be, that would tell us the suitability of a hackfest
and clue us in on where geographically it should be held.
Yes, I was thinking work category 3 as the primary reason to have a
release hackfest. Work on the other categories might also benefit from
a hackfest but not as much as 3.
I'm guessing that there's enough of us typically involved in
releases
that are located in the western half of the US, that a west-coast or
midwest location might be sensible, and might be a fair turn since
we've
had hackfests on the east coast and England.
It's a bit far away, but we will be able to send two people to the
Google Mentor Summit which is in the later part of October. So timing a
hackfest on the west coast at that time might be good. If not for a
release then perhaps for working on GTK3.
Tav
Bryce
3:20 p.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
Just going to throw out that I can probably make some arrangements for a
SCALE related hackfest (1st Q every year) and possibly get some sponsorship
from the conference for speaking and/or volunteer work. There would just
need to be enough spoken interest in advance for me to run it by the
chairs. If we could really get a regular release process down directly
linked to the conference I am pretty confident it would be an easy sell.
Cheers,
Josh
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 21:12 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:02:24PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> > > identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> > > months.
> > I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM.
> > We
> > spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of
> > the
> > $13100 budgeted.
> >
> > This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason
> > it
> > was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical
> > masses to
> > work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
> > duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
> > particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a
> > gathering
> > focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
> > fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our
> > user
> > community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
> Excellent ideas all around.
>
> With releases traditionally the work falls into these categories:
>
> 0. Getting tests to all pass and the build to build cleanly
> 1. The actual release mechanics (make dist, signing, etc.)
> 2. Translation
> 3. Fixing release-critical bugs
> 4. PR/announcement
> 5. Website/infrastructure related bits and pieces
>
> Some of these may be better suited to co-location than others. #0 I
> suspect is probably already in the bag, and #1 I've been working on
> behind the scenes so am not worried there. Translation I think kind
> of
> by definition is going to be hard to do as a hackfest. The PR and
> Website stuff probably would benefit from a hackfest but they're not
> areas likely to be blockers for us, although a strong case could be
> made
> from a fundraising perspective that it would be time well invested.
>
> I suspect for this release bugfixing is the biggest remaining hurdle,
> but I don't have anywhere close to a handle on what it's going to
> look
> like so who knows. If we knew what bugs needed fixed the worst, and
> who
> the fixers would be, that would tell us the suitability of a hackfest
> and clue us in on where geographically it should be held.
Yes, I was thinking work category 3 as the primary reason to have a
release hackfest. Work on the other categories might also benefit from
a hackfest but not as much as 3.
> I'm guessing that there's enough of us typically involved in releases
> that are located in the western half of the US, that a west-coast or
> midwest location might be sensible, and might be a fair turn since
> we've
> had hackfests on the east coast and England.
It's a bit far away, but we will be able to send two people to the
Google Mentor Summit which is in the later part of October. So timing a
hackfest on the west coast at that time might be good. If not for a
release then perhaps for working on GTK3.
Tav
> Bryce
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New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
Just going to throw out that I can probably make some arrangements
for a
SCALE related hackfest (1st Q every year) and possibly get some sponsorship
from the conference for speaking and/or volunteer work. There would just
need to be enough spoken interest in advance for me to run it by the
chairs. If we could really get a regular release process down directly
linked to the conference I am pretty confident it would be an easy sell.
I'm game. :)
-C
Cheers,
Josh
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 21:12 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:02:24PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> > > > identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> > > > months.
> > > I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM.
> > > We
> > > spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of
> > > the
> > > $13100 budgeted.
> > >
> > > This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason
> > > it
> > > was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical
> > > masses to
> > > work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
> > > duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
> > > particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a
> > > gathering
> > > focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
> > > fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our
> > > user
> > > community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
> > Excellent ideas all around.
> >
> > With releases traditionally the work falls into these categories:
> >
> > 0. Getting tests to all pass and the build to build cleanly
> > 1. The actual release mechanics (make dist, signing, etc.)
> > 2. Translation
> > 3. Fixing release-critical bugs
> > 4. PR/announcement
> > 5. Website/infrastructure related bits and pieces
> >
> > Some of these may be better suited to co-location than others. #0 I
> > suspect is probably already in the bag, and #1 I've been working on
> > behind the scenes so am not worried there. Translation I think kind
> > of
> > by definition is going to be hard to do as a hackfest. The PR and
> > Website stuff probably would benefit from a hackfest but they're not
> > areas likely to be blockers for us, although a strong case could be
> > made
> > from a fundraising perspective that it would be time well invested.
> >
> > I suspect for this release bugfixing is the biggest remaining hurdle,
> > but I don't have anywhere close to a handle on what it's going to
> > look
> > like so who knows. If we knew what bugs needed fixed the worst, and
> > who
> > the fixers would be, that would tell us the suitability of a hackfest
> > and clue us in on where geographically it should be held.
>
> Yes, I was thinking work category 3 as the primary reason to have a
> release hackfest. Work on the other categories might also benefit from
> a hackfest but not as much as 3.
>
> > I'm guessing that there's enough of us typically involved in releases
> > that are located in the western half of the US, that a west-coast or
> > midwest location might be sensible, and might be a fair turn since
> > we've
> > had hackfests on the east coast and England.
>
> It's a bit far away, but we will be able to send two people to the
> Google Mentor Summit which is in the later part of October. So timing a
> hackfest on the west coast at that time might be good. If not for a
> release then perhaps for working on GTK3.
>
> Tav
>
> > Bryce
>
>
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New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 23:20 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Just going to throw out that I can probably make some arrangements
for a SCALE related hackfest (1st Q every year) and possibly get some
sponsorship from the conference for speaking and/or volunteer work.
There would just need to be enough spoken interest in advance for me
to run it by the chairs. If we could really get a regular release
process down directly linked to the conference I am pretty confident
it would be an easy sell.
Sounds interesting. Might be a good alternative to holding a hackfest
with LGM next year. (BTW, Josh, have you asked Felipe about Brazil
yet?) The one disadvantage, is west coast US is a long way from Europe
(as is Rio for that matter).
Tav
9:26 p.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-board] Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 23:20 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Just going to throw out that I can probably make some arrangements
for a SCALE related hackfest (1st Q every year) and possibly get some
sponsorship from the conference for speaking and/or volunteer work.
There would just need to be enough spoken interest in advance for me
to run it by the chairs. If we could really get a regular release
process down directly linked to the conference I am pretty confident
it would be an easy sell.
We're going to have a fight on our hands :-D
MIT SIPB are interested in helping us run our hackfest, several people
in fact have gotten back to me with interest. The venue is free for the
duration. It's in Boston, so nearer Europe and they run regular
hackathons and hackfests with solid local interest.
The only issue is that the bigger events we can tie it to are perhaps
not as exciting. LibrePlanet is a possibility for instance and was
pretty big and well attended this year. But otherwise not much.
We'll probably have to weigh up the costs as well as the advantages to
both venues.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
5:22 a.m.
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:34:18PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at
noon Pacific
time (2000 UTC).
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
months.
Bryce
Thanks everyone for attending, that ended up being an impressively
productive meeting. I've gone through the meeting log and pulled out
action items:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
I've penciled in Friday, June 3rd as our next meeting, and jotted in an
agenda to followup on a number of the items we touched on this week.
Bryce
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