Archive:2011-03-06

Webteam Upcoming Meeting Agenda Introductions! (5 minutes)

• pyrak
• astory
• paulproteus
• jeremyb
• skyfaller

Management (5-10 minutes):

• What do you want Alec to do, again?
  • run meetings (this rocks)
  • Set the goals for the team
  • Work with volunteers for us to achieve it
    • That includes pinging people as needed, and adjusting other people's expectations if we need to decide that we can't
  • make sure that emailed requests get done
  • recruit new members
• What nagginess parameter
  • Remember to give feedback!
• What stuff does Alec need to learn about?
  • Webteam activities
    • blog
    • mailing list
    • wiki
    • other website
    • Noteshub
  • which webserver we're using, who to contact for solving various problems.
• Don't vanish!
• Maintain illusion of activity
  • Keep threads on mailing list
  • Launchpad/svn activity posting? IRC?

Bugs (10-15 minutes):

https://launchpad.net/web/+bugs

• Wikislowness - how to prevent in future
  • parser cache (done?)
  • caching proxy
• Wiki editing bugs - fixed?
• chapter aggregator - pyrak

Version Control of the Website (10-15 minutes):

• Is the current situation acceptable?
• Does the scaling work for the current number of editors? What about more?
• Should we move to a dvcs? (git?)
• Update hooks for website state? (what does this mean?)
• Patch: nightly svn diff from install, mail to webteam
• Access controls are a problem
• astory: make a proposal for moving to git
  • Want to have a clone-and-run-locally setup

Just a note to everyone: this wiki page is your friend: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Website_documentation (it's in the footer of the main website)

Log

• 2011-03-06/Log