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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Hello everyone,

The meeting logs from 2005-05-08 are available[0].

Summary:

ISO
  * Karsten and David Kowis are working on the more modular installer scripts
  * Benoit is working on the current scripts and fixing bugs
    * The QA Team is helping test these scripts
  * No ETA for any of the scripts
  * -test ISOs will be released weekly or bi-weekly (when possible)

Sorcery
  * Most of the features for our RoadMap[1] will be in by 1.14
  * 1.12.1 will be released this week
  * 1.12.2 will be released in about a month
  * We have decided to remove the build_depends requirement for 1.0
  * Sub-depends have been moved from 1.15 to 1.14
  * Sorcery -test releases will now be announced to the mailing lists and
FreshMeat

Grimoire
  * The "50 open bugs" now applies only to stable grimoire and bugs marked
Priority P3 or higher (P3, P2 or P1)
  * Cleanup of config_query and local variables is moving forward, but slowly
  * Grimoire Handbook Update is in the works
  * Duplicate dependencies have some work done, but are low priority
  * SVK[2] is being tested as a possible SCM for the grimoires
    * The WSU LUG[3] may host the test SVK grimoire
  * gcc 4.0 is getting ready for test (basesystem at least).
    * This update will go more easily due to the use_gcc function in Sorcery

QA Team
  * Seth and Andrew have an rough draft of their outline available[4], but 
Seth
will submit a more formal one after he cleans it up
  * The first iteration of stable-rc will be branched today and testing begun
  * Requests for stable should not be approved by the requester (in case the
requester is the requestee, other than Thomas Houssin for security updates)
  * Stable grimoire releases will be versioned, but the end-user will not 
notice
this

Miscellaneous
  * Games grimoire is looking for more gurus
  * Enthrall is looking for more users/testers
  * Proposed SM-Commit mailing list for Perforce (and other SCMs) commits
approved

Thanks to all who showed up!

-sandalle

[0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Meeting+log+2005-05-08
[1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=SourceMageRoadMap
[2] http://svk.elixus.org/
[3] http://lug.wsu.edu/
[4] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=StableGrimoireUpdate

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