[Incubator] November Non-meeting

[Jody Garnett]

I thought something was amiss, we have been pretty good about having bi-monthly meetings, and our last one was in September! As we are starting to run into the crazy/busy/holiday season and I expect it will be difficult to assemble a useful IRC meeting on short notice.

With that in mind, lets use email to ask for a status update this month, we should be able to check in on how projects are going and see if anyone needs a hand.

Project mentors, can you send a status email to the list (that way we can have a separate email thread per project). If you need a starting point for writing a status email, start with what tasks have been accomplished, what tasks are next, and make a note of any impediments getting in the way.

Example:

The Christmas Cheer project is proceeding well, the core team of eight reindeer are scheduled to make their Dec 25th release deadline. However there has been no progress on incubation tasks this quarter.

Actually we do have one small bit of progress to report Santa has kindly offered to act as project officer.

The development team has been wrestling with how to open source a key bit of scheduling software that contains personally sensitive white list (of who is naughty and nice). It looks like a technical solution is feasible, with sensitive information being contained on a server and an example configuration provided by the free software foundation used as a reference point for test cases.

The next task is hunting down release guidelines for the incubation checklist. The current build instructions are quite dated consisting primarily of poetry, and the team is evaluating alternatives (including Rake). 

No further incubation progress is expected in December as the team is fully occupied with their current release. Progress on the data / code / documentation review has been inconsistent as the elves have gotten into the eggnog. We expect work to resume early February.

Although I am taking part of the developer list, there has been few actual questions.
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Jody Garnett

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