Meeting Notes: July 22 2008

From Gallery Codex

Present

• talmdal (notes)
• alindeman
• schultmc
• bharat
• valiant
• jhilden
• Joe7
• Tim_j
• ymhee_bcex

Project Tasks

GCon

• Bharat is waiting for expenses to be submitted. The deadline is July 29th. Printed copies are not essential if electronic copies are available.
• It was lots of fun (for those that attended)
• It started some important discussions, to be continued on -core
• Thanks to Tim_j for organizing.

Gallery 1

• Everything is ready
• ckdake will do packaging when he returns from holidays.

Gallery 2.3

• G2.3-RC-1 is pretty much ready.
• We are currently blocked by an svn browser outage of SF.net. The workaround is to host the README.html on GMC.
• Tackle the pri 7-9 bugs in the next 2-3 weeks.
• Re incomplete icon packs... "incomplete packs are better than no packs".

Summer of Code

• talmdal will ask johndbritton to post some code to start initial reviews
• phinze is making progress as well. beckett owes phinze a long IRC chat session this week.
• Google recommends ending SoC on August 11 to have a week to finalize.

Summer of Usability

• no update
• mockups revised based on feedback, more feedback welcome: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:SoU2008:Upload_interface_mockup
• started on: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Personas_Scenarions which will be helpful for this and future things.
  • will look back over katrin's survey results for ideas for this
  • survey for posting on front page of gmc? -> will email -devel for ideas about what we want to know about users
• up next: will create some form of click dummy to do some user testing and see what happens

Gallery Competition

• Some thoughts:
  • Competitions are good to get people involved
  • Focus on the gallery usage not the content.
  • Criteria: visual impact, good designm usability, novel features, unusual customization
  • Basis of the competition is predicated on the assumption that there are people who have done more with gallery than just download and stick with a straight install - tuned the templates, adjusted the css, custom themes
  • More than a new theme contest, more of a showcase
• Overall, +1 for the contest...

Action Items For Next Week

(bold ones are overdue)

• ckdake
  • continue to harass bharat about G1 reviews, G2 reviews, SoC
• schultmc
  • update us on corporation status "Real Soon Now"
  • backport fixes and ask for code reviews or contact the security team to see if 2.2.5 can go in
• alindeman
  • review 341: ffmpeg
• beckett
  • look through integrations page on codex and update (remove obsoletes)
• bharat
  • Summaries the discussion regarding Gallery2 direction and radical approaches to take to -devel.

Not at Meeting

• h0bbel
  • finish putting together MS testing plan
  • add more to test matrix for other platforms

Completed Action items from last week

• ckdake
  • continue to get fryfrog/talmdal to help with some release testing