week_4.md

June 28, 2021

Attendees (please add yourself to this list and tell us one good thing going on in your life recently)

• Ritik Malik
• Kevin Lumbard
• Yash Prakash

Agenda/Notes:

• Project Update : Core work of the project is complete.
  • Show the DEMO
  • We’ve updated the main branch with automation system
  • PDF link
  • PDF gets generated automatically with the focus area tables and 3 levels of hierarchy in the TOC
  • Focus-Areas README standardization has been discussed, and will be sending PRs this week
  • Will continue to work in dev branch and push it timely
• Added a new README for yml config file -
  • https://github.com/chaoss/MARS/tree/main/automation-english/active_user_input
  • Which directory are we using in website repo to store backup of yml config file before every release?
    • NO
• What other elements are required in the PDF? And How do we incorporate them?
  • Contributor List
    • https://github.com/chaoss/website/blob/master/release/contributors.md
  • Release Notes
    • We can pull from website repo - include this in yml file
    • https://github.com/chaoss/website/blob/master/release/release-notes.md
• What should be the content of WG.tex files? (show in output PDF)
  • Show all the focus-areas (table)
  • Some intro about WG?
  • Table of included focus areas and Goals?
  • Anything else?
• Wg_focus-areas : new name for focus-areas latex file (instead of who.tex, try wg-common_who.tex) since 2 focus-areas can have same name in the future
  • Georg: Great idea! Good solution. +1 👍
• Renaming focus-areas in wg-common
  • chaoss/wg-metrics-development#124
  • https://bit.ly/2ROytFz
• Pending PR: chaoss/wg-risk#130
• Can we use docker to resolve cross platform installation issues?
  • Could be used as an easy/alternate method to replicate the automation system
  • Current dependencies that need to be installed manually and also platform dependent -
    • LaTeX
    • Pandoc
    • Git
    • Python
    • Pip packages - gitpython, pypandoc, pyyaml
• WG-Value needs to be given a heads up about removing tables and HTML from social-listening.md
  • [1] instead of superscripts
• Extra content in focus-area READMEs for wg-evolution
  • We can remove them
• General Mentor Feedback and Suggestions

Goals for the next week:

• Create a handbook page describing all steps needed from (WG makes a change to a metric or creates new metric) to (translation of the change is ready in a language)
  • The steps need to describe what everyone involved in the process is expected to do
  • The handbook pages does NOT describe any automation specifics
  • Goal: Handbook page with description of steps and who does which step
• Continue standardizing the WG repos
  • Goal: PRs created for all needed changes; discussion during WG meetings (as available)
• Containerize M.A.R.S.
  • Goal: Mentor can run M.A.R.S. on their machine