Release Meeting: 30 Oct 2017

Details

• Date: 30 Oct 2017 1300Z
• Location: IRC #foswiki-release
• Log: (See inline at end of this topic)
• Participants (Add/Delete) = Attended, , present with no participation
  • GeorgeClark (gac410)
  • MichaelDaum
  • JanKrueger (jast) (jargan)
  • LynnwoodBrown (lynnwood)
  • MarkusUeberall (uebera||)
  • AndreLichtsteiner (andreli)
  • CrawfordCurrie (CDot)
  • JozefMojzis (jomo)
  • JulianLevens
  • KennethLavrsen (lavr)
  • StephanOsthold (ModAcOst)
  • AaronFuleki (tsnfoo)
  • MaikGlatki (mglac)
  • TerjeAndersen
  • zak256
  • TimothyLegge (timlegge)
  • FavioFlamingo
  • VadimBelman (vrurg)
  • fredericd

General status.

1. Task review

• 14494 (Confirmed): PlainFileStoreContrib shows ProjectContributor as UnknownUser Checkins on branches:
• 14516 (Confirmed): table not processed when there is a %FOOBAR{} before Checkins on branches:

2. Development Discussion

Feature proposals

Proposals needing review

• ModernizeICONMacro: GeorgeClark Accepted Proposal: Replace the old ICON macro with JQICON

Implementation underway

• ImprovePasswordResetProcess: GeorgeClark Merged To Core: Improve security of password reset.
• AddGenerateRandomString: GeorgeClark Merged To Core: Add a function to generate a cryptographically secure random string

In Release Plan - no work

• AddBacklinksToQuery: JulianLevens Accepted Proposal: Make faster backlinks possible
• AddDefaultWebName: MichaelDaum Accepted Proposal: Add configuration parameters {HomeWebName}, {ConfigWebName}.
• AddFormatControlToSearchChanges: GeorgeClark Accepted Proposal: Add some formatting control to the $changes() search token.
• AddNoProxyFeature: MichaelDaum Merged To Core: Add a 'NoProxy' configuration option to Foswiki::Net
• AddPasswordManagementFunctions: GeorgeClark Accepted Proposal: Add way to disable and expire passwords, and expire accounts.
• AddRegistrationTokenToUserinfo: MichaelDaum Merged To Core: Add $registration token to USERINFO
• AddTakeOutPutBackBlocksToFunc: GeorgeClark Accepted Proposal: Add takeOut / putBack calls to Func
• ConfigurableURLIncludes: MichaelDaum Accepted Proposal: It would be really helpful if URL includes could be enabled for only certain domains.
• TopicDisplayName: MichaelDaum Accepted Proposal: Let topics have a display title
• UseRelativeLinksByDefault: GeorgeClark Merged To Core: Templates and Topics should use SCRIPTURLPATH

Feature requests that need further action

• AddOptionalDescriptionToAccessDeniedTemplate: GeorgeClark Accepted Proposal: Add some optional verbiage to the Access Denied message. Implemented on Foswiki.org in template override. Needs review and comments
• ContinueCanonicalSCRIPTURLDev: GeorgeClark Merged To Core: Continue extending the canonical form of the SCRIPT / PUB URL macros Not really settled on a design. Needs review and comments
• ImplementAdditiveTopicACLs: GeorgeClark Merged To Core: Implement "additive" Topic level ACLs Needs review and comments
• PreventRedundantFileReadsInStore: Under Investigation: Prevent redundant file reads in store Needs review and decision on implementation
• CleanUpFoswikiLocales: JulianLevens Under Investigation: Provide relevant locale support in pure Foswiki code and eliminate perl/OS locale
• SupportAllMacrosInTemplateTopics: CrawfordCurrie Merged To Core: Support all macros in template topics

Completed

• SplitArgumentsinMAKETEXT: JanKrueger Merged To Core: Allow passing MAKETEXT's placeholder arguments separately

Other experimental

• 14288 (Confirmed): rewrite to support pluggable edit engines Checkins on branches: Item14288

OO Release related Tasks/Proposals

• ImproveOOModel: VadimBelman Under Investigation: Foswiki OO model need to be more comprehensive and unified. 13897 (Being Worked On): Implement ImproveOOModel proposal. Checkins on branches: Item13897 master Item14152 Item14203 Item14237
• OONewPluginModel: VadimBelman Under Investigation: The new OO foswiki needs new OO plugins. 14152 (Being Worked On): Implement OONewPluginModel proposal Checkins on branches: Item14152 Item13897 Item14237
• FeatureSets: VadimBelman Under Investigation: Fine-granular control over supported features 14232 (Being Worked On): Supporting task of FeatureSets proposal Checkins on branches: Item13897 Item14152
• OOConfigSpecsFormat: VadimBelman Under Construction: Utilizing pure Perl for config specs. 14237 (Being Worked On): Implement OOConfigSpecsFormat proposal Checkins on branches: Item14237

3. Next release

Patch release 2.1.5

• Release from: Release02x01
• Beta start:
• Release target:

Feature release 2.2.0

• Feature Freeze: 01 Sep 2017
• Release from: master
• Beta start: 15 Sep 2017
• Release target: 15 Oct 2017

4. Community Events

• Joint "Wiki-Based Projects" booth at FOSDEM 2018 together with TikiWiki, XWiki and DocuWiki

Next meeting - - Monday 13 Nov 2017 1300Z — ReleaseMeeting02x02_20171113

IRC Log

(09:01:13 AM) gac410: Hi everyone. Are we having a release meeting today?
(09:03:24 AM) MichaelDaum: Hi gac410
(09:03:33 AM) gac410: Hi Michael
(09:05:10 AM) gac410: Let's get started. I have to be out of here in 30 minutes. I have a conflicting meeting that I cannot miss.
(09:06:02 AM) MichaelDaum: okay. what do we have on the agenda for 2day?
(09:06:06 AM) gac410: The only new task is http://foswiki.org/Tasks/Item14516 - table not processed when there is a %FOOBAR{} before
(09:06:59 AM) MichaelDaum: oh right. nasty isnt it.
(09:07:35 AM) gac410: y I didn't dig into it at all. That plugin is complicated :(
(09:07:58 AM) MichaelDaum: I was so baffled that I had to switch the site back to EditTablePlugin ... besides other quirks in the css that make EditRowPlugin depend on PatternSkin
(09:09:25 AM) MichaelDaum: it really needs somebody willing to open that can.
(09:09:33 AM) gac410: There are a number of tasks in https://foswiki.org/Tasks/EditRowPlugin that probably need to be reviewed if anyone is digging into it
(09:10:02 AM) gac410: y. Those plugins - edit table & row, are both pretty difficult to work on :(
(09:11:40 AM) gac410: There is another one I can't find now that was recently opened (zak256 ???) Where some macros don't expand when rendering for edit.
(09:15:17 AM) gac410: Regarding feature requests, My Item14506 branch - new password reset process, is probably ready for testing.
(09:16:42 AM) gac410: https://foswiki.org/Development/UrlparamPreventNewlineSubstitution - URLPARAM: Don't encode newline parameter substition ... is a very simple patch
(09:16:42 AM) gac410:
(09:17:25 AM) gac410: I thiink that one is reasonable to implement. I can't see any reason that substituting /r/n for the newline="" value *before* encoding is any way less secure that after.
(09:18:08 AM) gac410: newline= is input from the macro, not from the query, so it can't be used to sneak in any nastiness into the field.
(09:21:08 AM) gac410: btw... I think vrurg is ready for us to start reviewing the docs on his Item14237 branch. Switch to that branch pseudo install, then cd to bin, and plackup foswiki.plack iirc
(09:21:28 AM) gac410: It needs a lot of work, but core functionality is ready
(09:24:43 AM) vrurg: Hi All!
(09:25:00 AM) vrurg: I totally forgot about the meeting. :(
(09:32:07 AM) gac410: I'm going to have to leave. Please continue discussions. I'll be back in a couple of hours to grab the logs and create the minutes.
(09:32:53 AM) gac410: I didn't think when I scheduled another meeting this morning. My apologies.
(09:34:51 AM) MichaelDaum: sorry I am getting distracted
(09:37:34 AM) vrurg: Bad day for a meeting...