Unofficial WebsiteBaker community & developer meeting

[Stefek]

... mechanisms like this should be part of the core.
The core has a (ACP-) Module "Media" which needs a handler for data (images and txt files at least) upload.
Creating a clean upload handler that can also be used in modules should be considered as core- component. (And of course, the community should contribute to the core - as one person alone won't make it all by herself.)

Another place where such an image upload mechanism in core should be implemented is in the page-settings.
There you have the new "page-icon(s)".
With a proper mechanism, you could have
(1) one to select an image (instead of only the image name, as it is now) and
(2) another one to upload an image directly from here.
Convenient, hey?

And so you would have your image-upload and select interface for use in core-modules and community-modules alike (as in News, Members, Topics and what you have).

Convenient, global, uniform.

Cheers,
Stefek

[Tez Oner]

Eeey,

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Disclaimer: I didn't take notes during the call... so forgive me if I remember something not correctly.
maybe good for upcoming meetings to have someone who takes notes / leads the discussion,
should be able to speak German and English so we can make it more efficient.

A lot of discussion is also going through Skype but isn't that clear on long term. Any ideas on this?


Cheerz,

Tez Oner

[easyuser]

maybe good for upcoming meetings to have someone who takes notes / leads the discussion,
should be able to speak German and English so we can make it more efficient.

A lot of discussion is also going through Skype but isn't that clear on long term. Any ideas on this?

Well, I think most of the targets resulting out of the discussion were posted here.
The problem of Skype - or similar voice meetings - are always, that there is many discussion. It's the same in "real face-to-face" meetings. The advantage of voice meetings is of course the direct way of communication.
I think it's a problem how to find the best meeting solution.
The three meeting types I can think of are:
- Voice (or even video) conferences like skype / teamspeak / TeamViewer.
- Text chats like irc.
- Forum discussion like here or other boards, e.g. Confluence or Redmine.

The problem on this meeting was, that many people met the first time, so many time went in introducing and exchanging the personal point of view.
Of course upcoming meetings have to be structured clearer, also the agenda (yes, I know, my fault, but I wanted to cover anything upcoming) was too big.
It's better from my point of view in upcoming meetings to concentrate on one big topic.
Perhaps working with "project lists" (simple tabular with a few columns, I know and love them from my work) is also a good and very easy possibility. But it only works when there are to-dos and a person in charge for the single point.
Of course - if anybody has better ideas - just let us know.

[Martin Hecht]

Well, I think most of the targets resulting out of the discussion were posted here.

"The help pages shall be replaced by a wiki" was another point which comes to my mind.
I'll add a few more things soon, when I find the time to go through the agenda and recall what has been discussed.

maybe good for upcoming meetings to have someone who takes notes [...] should be able to speak German and English so we can make it more efficient.

I could do that for the meetings in which I take part.

[Martin Hecht]

some notes from the discussion which haven't been mentioned yet:

there was some discussion about the core, and the upcoming 2.8.4. It has already been posted here, that the core developers need a few weeks or months to finish it, but it is planned that the release will come out this summer. The 2.8.4. does not provide many new features, nor does it look very different. However, behind the scenes many things have been modernized. Most modules for 2.8.3 will work in 2.8.4 as well.

There was also a discussion if modules may be developed on github or any other platform. The consensus was that it doesn't matter where things are developed. The main point is that the releases are published on a central place on the wb web page. Currently, it is the addons-repository run by Ruud.

I think most other things have been mentioned here already.