ImpDev Meetups/2010-05-19

Summary
ImpDev Meetup for May 19, 2010.


 * We met on our new home on 3rd Rock Grid, Hoagie region. Thanks to 3RG for providing the space!
 * Jacek applied to the SL Viewer Directory today.
 * We discussed strategies to download KDU libs from LL's servers and unpack them in the viewer directory.
 * Mac and Linux are easy, but Windows will need a way to fetch and extract .tar.bz2. files. Maybe package wget.exe and tar.exe with the viewer? We need to find a recruit to work on this.
 * Jacek is taking a 2-week vacation from Imprudence soon, to recover from being burnt out. She has a few things to finish up first, to make her absence less of a problem.
 * Armin and McCabe can continue with weeklies. Armin can take care of the 32-bit Linux build while Jacek is gone.
 * We need to get more people involved in the project. Not only developers, but also people to be involved in the forum, maintain the wiki, help troubleshoot, etc.
 * We should quietly approach people to ask for help, rather than make a big announcement.
 * We need a tutorial on the wiki about how to write a good bug report. Maybe Penny can write it for us?
 * We discussed the weeklies. They are a testbed for changes, and not all of the changes will go into the final release.
 * We discussed a user's requests for a more powerful radar. There are some good ideas, but Jacek reminded everyone that we should consider what fits into our vision for the viewer. We don't have to do everything that users suggest.

Action Steps

 * McCabe:
 * Find a recruit to work on fetching and extracting .tar.bz2 files on Windows. Maybe k/o/w? Email the ImpDev list.
 * Armin:
 * Contact Penny about tutorial for writing a good bug report.
 * Push a script to fetch voice libraries (or KDU?) for Linux.
 * Jacek:
 * Push LightShare and OSSL function branches to Github.
 * Set up an automatic upload copier script for the server.

Links

 * wget for Windows