Re: [Tails-dev] Tails contributors meeting: August 8

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Author: sajolida
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Tails contributors meeting: August 8
On 30/07/13 14:14, intrigeri wrote:
> the next Tails developers meeting will take place on Thursday, August
> 8, on #tails-dev (OFTC) at 8pm UTC (10pm CEST). Every Tails
> contributor is welcome to attend.


Here is the report of what we did tonight.

Next low-hanging fruits session
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Introduction
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Low-hanging fruits meeting: spend a while together on many small tasks
that take less than 2 hours each, and are waiting in our TODO list for
too long.

During these meetings, we exceptionally allow ourselves to do the
review & merge process on IRC instead of the usual email-based
workflow, so this should all go pretty smoothly. Then, we report back
on tails-dev.

We also use these meetings to review stuff that's waiting in
the queue.

Decisions
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The August low-hanging fruits session will take place on Thursday 15th
August 14:00 CEST. intrigeri will announce it.

Next shifts: WAN and RM
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Introduction
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These are roles we take shifts for, and help us organize ourselves:
-
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/roles/release_manager/
-
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/roles/welcome_and_annoying_nitpicker/

Current situation:
- anonym is the RM for 0.20
- sajolida is acting as the WAN until August 28.

Decisions
---------

sajolida will ask bertagaz & alan if they want to be WAN after
August 28. Else, either he'll do it, or intrigeri will, or we'll do
without a WAN.

intrigeri will act as a RM for 0.20.1 scheduled on September 9th, and
0.21 2013-10-29, and 0.21.1 2013-12-11. He'll try to find people to
help me and share the work.

Have a consistent path to persistence root?
===========================================

https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5854

This looks like a one-line change inside tails-greeter, to name the
opened volume consistently. anonym will tackle it during the August
low-hanging fruits session, and if it's more complicated we'll
reconsider it.

Test suite: fs shares vs snapshots
==================================

https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5571

This is no practical issue right now, since we only use FS shares for
things that don't care about these bugs:

* MAT: should be moved to a dedicated feature anyway
* `usb_install`: doesn't use background snapshots

... but a limitation in what we can do in the future, when we want to
have libvirt fs shares work even when scenarios are using
a background snapshot.

1. reproduce the kernel bug with a recent kernel
2. report that kernel bug, because we are committing to behave this
way with our upstreams
3. ask on libvir-list or libvirt-users
4. close that ticket.