MOTU Meeting Minutes for 2009-01-30
MOTUs:
Discussion about REVU
Morten Kjeldgaard raised a proposal to improve REVU workflow. With this new approach, packages uploaded to REVU would fall into four categories depending on reviewers' actions (need-work comments or advocations). It could also be possible to inhibit new uploads to REVU at a choosen time (i.e. after FeatureFreeze), but Nathan Handler and Emmet Hikory put some objections about this feature.
Discussion was taken to describe the new display method for REVU packages, Nathan Handler and Emmet Hikory argued about the real usefulness of the new interface, especially because of the notification feature already implemented in REVU (interested parties can subscribe to a given package to receive updates about a package status). After a short discussion, there was no consensus about the proposed workflow because there is not a clear idea of the benefits of it. Luca Falavigna proposed to set up a staging REVU server to familiarize with the new display method to see how it performs and if there is room for improvements.
Decisions
Morten Kjeldgaard will code new display method
Luca Falavigna will look for hosting for a staging REVU server
Nathan Handler will coordinate the process and report back to MOTUs about the implementation