Notes20081110

Note: the original meeting time was marked 19:00 UTC, which didn't take account of the switch from DST

• Next meeting date
  • 15th December
  • Next Bug Bash - 24th November
• Next Release
  • 5.3.3 - Robert to act as provisional release manager
• Coding issues
  • Configure restructuring
    • No progress since last meeting
  • Autoconf 2.63 and automake
    • Issue with \r in configure script - confuses SVN
    • Unclear how damaging this would be (esp. on Mac OS 9/?Windows)
    • Probably need to try it and find out
    • Call for comments/vote on -coders list first
  • engineID discovery mechanism
    • Carried over to next meeting
• Round Table
  • DTS: Little recent activity - "configure restructuring is the main thing I haven't been doing"
  • Magfr: Working on a "unified statistics handler" - still needs testing
  • jsafrane: "just a little fixing here and there"