Notes:
You’ll hear the words “MVP” thrown around a lot in the update this week. It stands for “Minimum Viable Product”, and it’s a way for us to define what “success” means for each initiative. More to come on this later :)
Also, our next meeting isn’t until Dec 8th, so you won’t see an update over the Thanksgiving holidays because a bunch of us are enjoying turkey.
Configuration Management
Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)
Status Amber
Headlines
- Ongoing discussions coming out of BADCamp
- Working on defining the project
Next steps
- Further definition of the project goals for this project’s MVP
- Write architecture document that integrates comments from BADCamp and Michael Favia’s release
Props
Props to Justin Randall (beejeebus) and Michael Favia (michaelfavia) for their continued interest and attention to the initiative.
Web Services
Larry Garfield (Crell)
Status Green
Headlines
- Completed more cleanup to Context engine
- Agreed on improved closure-based handler registration: http://drupal.org/node/1331504
- Converted request-path handling functions to context.
- Found bugs in the menu system: http://drupal.org/node/1337076
Next steps
- Merge the closure conversion code.
- Roll core patch
- Have a sprint at DC Austin to work on plugins with neclimdul and EclipseGc
Call to Action
- Readd the background in the WSCCI group and sandbox issue queue.
- Review the core patch as soon as it is posted.
- Contact me if you’re interested in something specific and need more information
Props
Props to Pierre Rineau, aspilicious, and neclimdul for their continued efforts.
Design
Jeff Burnz (jmburnz)
Status
Amber
Headlines
- great meeting with Melissa about the MVP
- getting refocused, outlining the initiative reboot
- secured the Keynote at Drupalcamp Stockholm to talk about the initiatives (this coming saturday)
Next Steps
- Redefine goals, must include changes to d.o
- Redefine timelines, reestablish IRC meetings with a schedules and agenda
- Work towards the MVP definition in more concrete terms
Multilingual
Gábor Hojtsy
Status:
Green
Headlines
- Fleshing out MVP for this project
- Encouraging work on HTML 5 issues related to language, some changes already landed
- IRC meeting last week, discussed module breakdown
- Twitter calls to action and reaching out to get new blood on the initiative
- Moving steadily towards establishing a language.module. Core issues being above thresholds and locale module updates not being tested are/were in the way.
- Worked with good_man and David Rothstein on installer language selection UI. Putting down our first version and breaking out some of the advanced stuff to follow up patches.
Next steps
- Work with rvilar and others to extend locale upgrade tests, so we can move on with language.module establisment
- Installer language selection
- Mentor my new contributors
- More details to be added to the MVP
Call to Action
- Contact me if you want to get involved in the language.module work! http://hojtsy.hu/contact
Props
- Props to Jacinto Capote (fastangel) for jumping in new and helping with multiple issues, even setting up live test sites for them.
- Khaled Alhourani (good_man) for keeping up great contributions even though the difficult situation in his country, Syria.
- Ramon Vilar Gavaldà (rvilar) for starting off contributing to D8MI with tedious problems like locale upgrade tests being his first core contributions!
HTML 5
Jacine Luisi (jacine)
Status
Green
Headlines
- First office hours was fantastic!! Very productive with almost 20 people and 9hrs of
- Second office hours we were able to resolve discussion around accessibility of the node.tpl.php template
- We have 2 issues RTBC right now.
- We got 8 issues committed: http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status%5B%5D=2&version%5B... including a major one: http://drupal.org/node/865536
- Reviews for patches are still lacking.
- Sprints are going a little bit better.
- Finished on MVP document with Chris.
Next Steps
- Continue with IRC meetings and weekly office hours.
Call to Action
- Need patch reviews + testing.
- Need an automated way of tracking participation. Have a script that scrapes drupal.org, but need a row for each comment (instead of all the comments in one cell). Could use some help modifying it: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/912092/jacine_scrape_2_csv.php.txt
Props
I have a huge list of props to give (I’m sorry if I’ve forgotten anyone)... bleen, samkottler, aspilicious, rupl, mortendk, chrispomeroy, truls1502, tjhellmann, timplunkett, nattyseydi, davereid, janyves, DyanneNova, pixelwhip, Paul_Linney, Lin Clark, Everett Zufelt, mortendk, Jyve, cosmicdreams, jbeach, karschp and many more.
Mobile
John Albin
Status
Green
Headlines
- great meeting with Melissa about the MVP
- started creating a full list of core forms to be converted
Next Steps
- work towards the MVP definition in more concrete terms
PM Team
Angie Byron, Shannon Vettes, Melissa Anderson, Chris Strahl
Status
Green
Headlines
- Good meetings about [Mobile] and [Design], although we don't have docs yet
- Rallied people to work on HTML5/Mobile/D8Mi
- Putting into place good document management practices
- Met with Greg & Gabor, have drafts of documents but am planning to review the one done for Jacine & conform it to that format.
- Worked on MVP for Jacine and Larry. REALLY good progress here. Lots of good conversations about WSCCI - need to better articulate this initiative to the community. Further - trying to arrange a "code-in" between Boston and PDX.
- PM meeting where we discussed the status of documentation and worked on harmonizing our drafts
Next Steps
- Update MVP documentation to complete previous information and add new information about dependencies and resources.
Call to Action
- If you’re a PM interested in getting involved in the D8 initiatives, contact Angie!
Props
- The initiative leaders for all their time and energy spent defining MVP!
