Virtual Meeting on November 19, 2014

Attendees

• Hauke Petersen (FU Berlin)
• Oleg Hahm (INRIA)
• Martin Landsmann (HAW Hamburg)
• Peter Kietzmann (HAW Hamburg)
• Phạm Hữu Đăng Nhật (Ho Chi Minh University of Technology)
• Thomas Eichinger (FU Berlin)
• Ludwig Ortmann (FU Berlin)

Joined at the very end:

• Teemu Hakala (ell-i)
• Philipp Rosenkranz (FU Berlin)

Minutes

• Oleg proposed the agenda
• Agenda was approved as followed:

1. Organization/Managing of distributed development procedures
2. Release branch
3. Dependencies of special make targets (like make flash)

Organization/Managing of distributed development procedures

• As a reaction to the discussion on the mailing list, initiated by Peter, participants tried to figure out how to improve development procedures for porting efforts.
• Agreement was made that the wiki page on Development Procedures should state that porting for a new board should always require to create a wiki page for this board first.
• This wiki page should then point to an issue in the tracker coordinating porting tasks.
• For maximum visibility, a pointer to this information should be put into the README and on the wiki start page.
• Peter volunteered to add this information and pointers - by a PR and/or mailing list.

Release branch

• Oleg proposed to create a release branch, where we can already merge some pending PRs (particular the network refactoring ones) for early testing.
• Hauke counter-proposed to have this branch not in the RIOT repository, but in Martine's fork.
• Participants agreed on Hauke's solution - assuming that Martine will agree, too.

Dependencies of special make targets (like make flash)

• Referring to #1724 and #2012 it was discussed if the flash target should depend on all or not.
• Consensus was made that this would be most logical.
• However, it would be nice to specify different file names for one application to make it possible to flash different versions of an application.

Announcements/Comments/Questions

• Peter pointed to #2021 and asked for comments.
• Consensus was made that having this meeting every two weeks is good.
• For the upcoming Hack'n'ACK party in Berlin, we'll try to connect with a similar event in Hamburg using PlaceCam over a single video conferencing setup (mic, speakers, cam, screen) per site.
• Minutes of these meetings should go into the wiki (sic!). For the next meeting we'll have to agree on a minute taker before the meeting starts.