====== PEAR Group Meeting 22nd June 2008 ======

Meeting is on June 22nd, 5pm GMT with no DST

It is important that everyone in the new group makes it too the meeting, old group is a plus but not required.

http://clock.bluga.net/pear.php.

  * Make sure everyone has required access (pearweb, cvs, svn, pear-group@)
  * Vote for vice president
  * Find person to take care of: Meeting Minutes, Updating Blog, Updating news on pear.php.net
  * Plan for pear group meeting at php|appalacia
  * Peardoc freeze for db4=>5 upgrade planning
  * Plan for removing package v1
  * Bug Triage Updates/Plan

===== Minutes =====

==== Attendees ====
  * Greg Beaver [Past President]  ([[cellog]])
  * Christian Weiske  ([[cweiske]])
  * Chuck Burgess  ([[ashnazg]])
  * Travis Swicegood  ([[tswicegood]])
  * Brett Bieber  ([[saltybeagle]])
  * Josh Eichorn  ([[jeichorn]])
  * Joe Stump  ([[jstump]])
  * David Coallier  ([[davidc]])

==== Topics ====

Greg requested a past-president summary.

===Past President Summary===

  * Congrats to new people
  * Limited Nominations/Voting as a sign that current PEAR devs are content
  * Volume of proposals has risen = thanks to the old people
  * Number of bugs is rising, despite declining new bug reports
  * Talk of PEAR2 is encouraging new devs and could be holding off development of old packages
  * Yet unresolved - how collectives will work/look.
  * A few constitutional amendments that were informally proposed by the old group - need to be approved by referendum.
  * Important for president to maintain relations with PHP internals
  * Important for the president to identify the individuals who have the most influence over PHP internals issues that affect PEAR

Greg recommended:

  * Keep tabs on the stats
  * Brainstorm ways of improving retention if we are losing people
  * Keep attendance up at conferences for face-to-face


=== Administrative ===
  * [[saltybeagele|Brett]] will take meeting minutes
  * [[helgi|Helgi]] will update pearweb index
  * [[jeichorn|Josh]] granted access to group members to the PEAR blog
  * [[cweiske|Christian]] granted pear.group karma

=== Conference Meetup ===

* Group will try and have a face to face meeting, PHP Appalachia in the USA, another in Europe if possible.
* Christian will try and suggest a meeting in Canada or Europe, FOWA was suggested, which is in London this year early Oct.

=== Vice President was voted on ===
* 6 votes for [[cweiske|Christian]]

=== PEARDOC DB4=>DB5 conversion ===
peardoc upgrade is planned for Next Week, June 30th - July 4th, Christian and Brett will take the lead on this and get Rudy from GSoC's code running and upgrade peardoc - solicit help from pear-dev - We WILL NOT Branch! A freeze will be announced on the pear-doc list

===Bug Triage Updates/Plan===
Once every two months?
Chuck will assist in bug triage updates on the wiki, highlight agenda to be sent to the list, josh suggests a post on the blog and pear-dev announcements for each event.

===Plan for removing package v1===
Version bump?
  * Chuck +1 
  * Christian +1
  * Travis +1
  * Josh +1
  * Brett +1
  * Joe +1

Try and contact developers first to upgrade their package.xml to version 2. Brett will draft an email to be sent to developers of package v1 packages.

====Next meeting time/date====
Christian suggested meetings should not be held by a hard date, adjust meetings by amount of work to be done.

[[twsicegood|Travis]] suggested a maximum/limit of time to ensure meetings happen on some schedule

The next meeting will be July 13th, same time 5pm GMT.

==== Action Items ====

  * [[davidc|David]] will email systems and get pear-group@ alias updated. - Done
  * [[davidc|David]] plans to post a introductory post on the president's blog - Done
  * [[ashnazg|Chuck]] will email Helgi about updates to the Calendar of events
  * [[ashnazg|Chuck]] will send notices regarding upcoming bug triage events
  * [[saltybeagle|Brett]] will draft an email to developers of package v1 packages, announcing the update.